Dive Site Association

I am wondering if the Garmin Connect or Garmin Dive app, automatically populate the dive site name from the GPS co-ordinates or do you still have to manually enter the site name?

0 atj777 over 4 years ago

Garmin Connect does not as such but will name the dive based on the approximate location. For example, all my dives default to "Sydney Single-Gas Dive" or "Sydney Multi-Gas Dive" as appropriate. i.e. it knows the dive was in the Sydney area.

I manually rename the dive and the location.

0 Peter.Bomberg over 4 years ago in reply to atj777

Thanks, better than nothing but it would be nicer if it automatically translated based on a dive site map or database.

0 atj777 over 4 years ago in reply to Peter.Bomberg

But whose maps or database? And not everyone agrees on site names.

0 Peter.Bomberg over 4 years ago in reply to atj777

Both true but they could tap into something like the divesites DB as it's an open and accessible dB, or a Garmin maintained dB, the key is that it needs to be able to be locally overridden. I suspect this would be fine for 99% of users, and for most of us we call the divesite whatever the local dive OP tells us. Most people write it down and only look up the name if asked about a specific dive or are thinking of going back.

But your point is valid there would be those that disagreed and it would take time to populate