<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 23, 2015, at 3:49 PM, Willem Ferguson <<a href="mailto:willemferguson@zoology.up.ac.za" class="">willemferguson@zoology.up.ac.za</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">Dirk,<br class=""></div><div class="">Apologies for being a nuisance. I am busy with the Preferences section.<br class=""></div>I know we corresponded about this beforehand but I am not confident to write user manual text on this. Some questions.<br class=""></div>1) What lookup service is used?<br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="http://geonames.org" class="">geonames.org</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>which reminds me - we still use "dirkhh" as account. Probably not a good idea</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">2) Does Subsurface require an Internet connection for geo-lookup?<br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Yes</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">3) What happens in the absence of an Internet connection?<br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Things should time out gracefully</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">4) Checkbox: Enable geocoding for divesite management. Please explain?<br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>When this is checked, the geocoded values are shown above the location name</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">5) Check box: Parse site without GPS data. Please explain?<br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Umm - I think we haven't implemented this, yet. The idea was a forward lookup :-(</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">6) Checkbox: Same format for existing dives. Please explain?<br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Umm - what the heck? It must have been a while since I looked at this. I can't remember</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class="">7) How do geocoding and GPS data interact?<br class=""></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>If and only if you have GPS coordinates, the geocoding code can look up data. For many sites the data are very good. For others they are a mixed bag.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class="">8) I assume that Dive Site Layout is the format in which the user<br class=""></div><div class=""> specifies a location for lookup in the location text box of the Notes panel?<br class=""></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>I'm confused by this question</div><div><br class=""></div><div>/D</div><br class=""></body></html>