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authorGravatar Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org>2014-02-22 08:53:45 -0800
committerGravatar Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org>2014-02-22 08:57:03 -0800
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User manual: gps coordinates are tied to location names
While it seems obvious that you need a named dive site in order to track its coordinates, apparently people try to have no location name but distinct coordinates which at this time we do not support. See #440 Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org>
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@@ -209,6 +209,11 @@ Southern hemisphere latitudes are given with a *S*, e.g. S30°, or with a
negative value, e.g. -30.22496. Similarly western longitudes are given with a
*W*, e.g. W07°, or with a negative value, e.g. -7.34323.
+Please note that GPS coordinates of a dive site a linked to the Location
+name - so adding coordinates to dives that don't have a location set will
+caused unexpected behavior (as Subsurface will think that all of these
+dives have the same location and try to keep their GPS coordinates the
+same.
*Divemaster*: The name of the dive master or dive guide for this dive can be
entered here.