Have you ever used a dive logbook program, either PC-based or Web-based? Did you find yourself saying, "Jeez, I wish it could do such-and-such!"? Well here's your chance to submit your requests for the perfect dive logbook. We've kicked off a project to add personal and public logbooks to DiveSpots.com, and we'd like to hear from you. What features would you find most useful? What cool thing would make it something you would use regularly? And just as important ? what do you find annoying or useless in existing programs?

Send us an e-mail with your comments and help us build something great. To help you get your creative juices flowing, here's a short list of some useful comments we've already received from our members.

• I would like for my dive log to also serve as a blog, call it a "dive blog" so that I can share my dives with my landlubber friends and allow them to post comments.
• Many of the dive logbook programs are too complicated to use.  They have too many required fields, such as surf temperature, weight used, etc. I want to be able to post my dives quickly.
• I want to be able to share my log book with friends and allow my dive buddies to link up.
• I dive with a club. It would be nice to link the club dive logs together.

Please contribute your ideas, wishes, and comments. This is your chance to get the system you want ? you're the experts and we value your suggestions. Here are some general categories upon which you may want to comment. Feel free to add to this list!

• Sharing / posting photos
• Uploading data from a dive computer
• Searching and sorting
• Posting comments
• Linking with buddies, clubs, dive shops, instructors
• Importing / Exporting
• Maps and GPS coordinates
• Data Fields to Capture
• Printing
• Personal (Public/Private) Profiles
• Distributing via RSS / E-mail Notifications

We look forward to your comments!

Comments:

	Posted by Buoyant1, Mar-16-2006 @ 08:33 PM CST I definately would like the ability to either link to existing info from the dive site (either on this site or others) and be able to upload any pictures taken on the dive.
	Posted by ChathamDaleJ, Mar-16-2006 @ 08:39 PM CST php MySQL on either windows or Linux. An interface for a dive computer wouldn't be hard to incorporate and by doing so, much more detailed logs could be kept. A graph could be presented with php and it could be put on a web page or into a pdf document. Thanks for making me think about this. Neat idea. I'm doing it. Dale Chatham dale@chatham.org
	Posted by seagoat, Mar-17-2006 @ 07:39 AM CST Excellent! I like the whole "blog" concept and allowing my friends/buddies to post comments. Linking my logbook entry to my dive buddy's logbook would be great!
	Posted by Dizzy, Mar-27-2006 @ 10:57 PM CST I picked up a partner at a dive site and at the end of the dive he down loaded his dive computer to a palm pilot took my name for his log copied it right there and then. All that was left to do was to down load into his computer at home. He even made his own down load device. Then all he had to do was to down load his digital pictures and the dive was complete,(ready to blog). I was impressed, so much so that I did not ask him how he did it. Truly the one that got away. That system would be the cats pajamas.
	Posted by ScubaDog, Apr-1-2006 @ 09:46 PM CST I used to use the Internet Dive Log (http://www.immersions.com/idl/). It did a lot I liked, but they haven't updated it since 2002. I like the ability to upload dive data from the dive computer as well as track dive equipment maintenance.
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