On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 6:54 PM, Robert Helling <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 02.12.2016, at 16:00, Willem Ferguson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > "I believe it is important to meet and discuss your plans to incorporate > your study with the DAN Diver Safety Guardian (DSG) platform. Mainly because > most of what you mentioned and suggested is already available and in place > via the DAN DSG platform. The Subsurface platform has been used for many > years by DAN Europe to convert and transfer dive computer data into the DSG > platform. In fact the DAN Europe team has been hard at work with the > Subsurface team to integrate the Subsurface software into the DSG platform." > > Does anyone know anything about this initiative? > > > As far as I can remember, there has not been too much activity in this > direction, this is also what googling for DAN > site:lists.subsurface-divelog.org produces: > > http://www.lmgt.com/?q=DAN+site%3Alists.subsurface-divelog.org > > Somebody came up with a (very long) definition of their file format, then > there was a comment that took me longer to find as I remembered it coming > from Linus, our head of department of Strong Statements, but it was Dirk, > quoting: > >> I have the specification (see attachment). No idea where I got it, or how >> up-to-date it is, but this is always better than nothing :-) > > Wow. I never thought I would say this. But UDDF is an entirely sane > format compared to that. > > What is wrong with these people??? > > /D > > Then, a bit later, there is a single message from a DAN Europe guy that got > a single response (by Miika): > > Hi Andrea, > > overall this sounds good to me. We currently integrate e.g. with > divelogs.de by quite a simple API. Basically we convert our XML to the > one used by divelogs.de and then upload the file through webservices > API. Of course this integration has also download option, which we > might not need with your interface. Anyway, a sensible XML format and > sensible API to upload would be easiest for us. (More comments below.) > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Andrea Covelli > <acovelli at dsl.daneurope.org> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I’m Andrea Covelli, the developer of the new DAN Europe website to collect >> diving profiles, Diver Safety Guardian (DSG). The website is accessible on >> https://www.daneuropedsl.org and you will need your DAN ID and MyDan >> password in order to access it. >> >> Considering that it is multi-platform open-source and the wide range of >> compatible diving computer, we already suggest to use Subsurface to >> download >> and export the profiles in UDDF, in order to upload them on the DSG. > > Good to hear :D > >> During the last EUDI Show, while I was presenting the web site, I met >> Filippo and we had the idea to have a better integration between the two >> systems. >> >> I developed an API that allow to upload dive profile directly on the DSG. >> >> I would like to start to implement it, but I would appreciate any comment >> and help in developing this. > > We are happy to work on this from our side. We have thought about DAN > integration before but the old format (D7) looked a bit too hard to > implement, so work on that never took off... > >> I attach the web service specification. > > The specification looks like you are expecting different format from > the API than UDDF? Am I correct with this? For us, it would be easier > if the uploaded information and profile were in XML. The other > communication can be JSON or other sensible WEB stuff. We do currently > support exporting to CSV using XSL transforms, so XML is not that > strict requirement for the output, but preferable nontheless. > >> Thank you so much for your interest and help > > likewise > > mike > > > but it seems we never heard back. But there are also commit > 46074ebf215506e53059ff41eeb1355f8cb2ee1f and following which apparently add > the possibility to import DL7. But I don’t think we knowingly export, let > alone upload.
Should have seen your narration before responding. I nominate Robert our email archaeologist :D miika _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
