<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi everybody,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">as most of my diving is at a few local sites, I don’t use the dive site feature too much (autocomplete does most of the job for me). So I don’t have very strong opinions in this field.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 23. Feb 2019, at 18:30, Dirk Hohndel <<a href="mailto:dirk@hohndel.org" class="">dirk@hohndel.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">I was at first excited about the online dive site databases - you may remember that I tried to go down this path before a few years ago. But I then ended up with the same issue you seem to be referring to. For my preferences, most of the sites I cared about either weren't there or their location wasn't close to where I had located them with my phone... so this didn't provide a ton of value for me. But since others have asked about this repeatedly over the years, it appears that there is a group of users who find sufficient information in those sources. And it may be that this all depends on where you dive. Maybe there are dive locations where there is excellent information available online and I just haven't happened to be at one of those places.</div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div></div><div>I agree that many existing databases of dive sites have very poor or spares (or outright wrong) information and are thus of very limited use. Or they completely lack an API (for Germany, I am looking at you <a href="https://www.200bar.de/tauchen-deutschland/index.php" class="">https://www.200bar.de/tauchen-deutschland/index.php</a> and <a href="https://taucher.net/tauchen" class="">https://taucher.net/tauchen</a>). But what I was hoping for was that the Subsurface users could create their own database: Sharing logbook entries has a lot of privacy issues but I think many of our users would be willing to share dive site information they collect if they can participate from this data. If we could implement this I think it would be really cool. Many details would have to be worked out (how to deal with languages, which fields would we share, coordinates, names, notes?)</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Best</div><div>Robert</div></body></html>