Removing all gps features

[Jeroen Massar]

On 2021-09-11 21:34, Robert Helling via subsurface wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> On 11. Sep 2021, at 18:53, Dirk Hohndel via subsurface 
>> <subsurface at subsurface-divelog.org 
>> <mailto:subsurface at subsurface-divelog.org>> wrote:
>>
>> Thoughts? Is there anyone here who side-loads their own build? And if 
>> yes, are you using the GPS features?
> 
> the GPS feature never worked for me on my iPhone, I have always used 
> photos to import coordinates (but this is simpler since I hardly ever 
> dive from a boat).

I actually do a similar trick: take a pic of the equipment while setting 
up, that gives a decent GPS coord for the dive spot in the EXIF info, 
and as that goes into my gallery for that day... done. But would be good 
to be able to see the coords in subsurface, especially as that is what I 
have with me when diving. Though, the phone comes along too of course 
and in the Photos app it is quite nicely with a map overview.


Thus, maybe an option is that Subsurface extracts the GPS info from a 
picture associated to the dive when one sets one? (or at least offers it 
when adding the pic and/or 'try extract GPS from pix' as an option)

> Maybe we should finally get .kml import to work. Then people who want to 
> use tracking can have a specialised tracking app deal with these 
> problems. It think, it’s not only subsurface having these problems: I 
> use a fitness app on my phone to track my running (supplied by a major 
> sport shoes manufacturer as I found out). There, tracking works for the 
> first day but on consecutive days, it never gets any GPS fixes. I have 
> to manually kill the app, then it works again.

Apple Watch works wonders there, it just works(tm).

For DSLR cams there btw is 
https://www.foolography.com/products/unleashed/ (so that you only do 
bluetooth and not suck the camera battery empty) which connect to for 
instance a Bad Elf:
  https://bad-elf.com/pages/be-gps-2300-detail

That Bad Elf you can independently easily put into 'record track' mode, 
has amazing fix, and ~48 hour battery or so when doing that; and nicely 
exports KML where wanted. Which is also fun to see where the boat 
actually took you ;)


Side-note: For emtb bikers, the Bosch Connect App needs to be active to 
give the bike a GPS signal from the phone... spotty has been mine 
experience, thus logging rides with Apple Watch is easier. Though, one 
can easily fetch the KML from the Bosch Connect website.

Greets,
  Jeroen