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<h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook - New Cave</h2>
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<h1>Creating a new cave in the online system</h1>
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<h2>Great, I have discovered a new cave...</h2>
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<p>So, you have staggered off the plateau with a fist-full of notes and surveys,
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and you want to let the world know of your massive discovery.
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<ul>
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<li>If you have not yet learned how to record your prospecting and survey
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your leads, read the <a href="look4.htm">prospecting introduction</a> and
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<a href="../survey/index.htm">survey handbook</a> which tells you how to record
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survey information in your waterproof notebook.
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<li>This page outlines the rest of the process. Each part of it is documented separately.
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<h2>Process</h2>
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<p>After 40 years or so, we have a well-defined process which you will need to learn.
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<ul>
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<li>Put notes in a new wallet
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<li>Scan the notes
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<li>Type in survey data (in the right place in the file system)
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<li>Run survex to create a centre-line printout
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<li>Transcribe your sketches onto centre-line paper
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<li>Scan your centre-lined sketches
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<li>Use tunnel to digitise your centre-line sketches
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</ul>
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<p>and either later or at the same time, you will be doing these other tasks
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<li>Create a new folder in the file system for the wallet data
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<li>Create a new folder in the file system for the survex data
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<li>Create a "new cave entry" in the website
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<li>Update the index tick boxes on paper: as your wallet progresses through this process
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<li>Update the online record of those tick boxes
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<li>Regenerate the <a href="/expofiles/surveyscans/2018/">list of outstanding survey tasks</a> for everyone
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</ul>
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<p>This documentation assumes that you have recorded your survey data in
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a waterproof paper notebook. If instead you are using a PDA to record the survey readings
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digitally for your first cave, don't. Use the paper process first, then when you are familair
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the overall process, look at the <a href="pdanotes.html">PDA additional notes</a>.
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<h3>Starting a new wallet</h3>
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<ol>
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<li>Put all your written notes into the next empty "wallet":
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(a transparent folder/envelope) in this year's lever-arch file labelled
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e.g. "Expo Survey 2018" in the potato hut*.
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<li>The wallet has a paper sticky label on it with the wallet-identifier,
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e.g. <b>2018#22</b>, already printed on the label.
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<li>Write the date and the names of the people on the trip on the label.
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<li>Tick whether your trip was a surface or a cave trip.
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<li>Write the name of the cave (with number if you know it), e.g. "264 Balkon"
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<li>Write the area in the cave you did your surveying, e.g. "mongol rally"<br>
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<li>Now turn to the index sheets at the front of the folder,
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and fill in the line (e.g. 2018#22) for your wallet
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<ul>
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<li>"264 mongol rally"
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<li>date of trip
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<li>people who were on it
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<li>then there are a lot of tick boxes. The explanations for these will come later.
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</ul>
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<li>Now, if you have not done it immediately after you left the cave,
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photograph all the pages of survey notes with your phone.
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Get one or more of the people also on the trip to do this too.
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</ol>
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<p>* As people spend longer and longer at top camp, we may establish a wallet file at top camp
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too, with pre-allocated numbers.
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<p>The original notes and sketches should be filed in the clearly marked
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wallet - don't take them caving again and <em>don't leave them lying around to
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be "Gössered"!</em></p>
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<p>The notes (all of them, including dates, personnel, calibration, LRUD,
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station details, etc.) should be filed away in the wallet in the current year's
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surveys file. You should include a transcription if they are illegible
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(to other people; if you can't read them yourself, go back and do the survey
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again!). Even if you do this, never throw away the original notes.</p>
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<!-- Original text: ...copied onto a fresh page of the Survey Book
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while everyone's memory is still fresh (this helps if something is only
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marginally legible). This should be proof checked by someone else. Current
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survey books are divided into "Kaninchenhöhle" (usually referred to as
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"KH Survey book") and "surface stuff and other caves" (usually referred to as
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"notKH survey book"). There should be an index page at the front, which you
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should also fill in so that people can find your survey again.</p>-->
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<h3>Scan the notes into the online wallet</h3>
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<p>Each wallet has a corresponding folder in the online system where a record is kept
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of what information is in the wallet and where the corresponding survey data is filed:
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<pre>
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/expofiles/surveyscans/2018/2018#22/
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</pre>
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<p>This is where the scanned copies of the survey notes are kept.
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<p>If your initial backup photos of your notes were poor quality, use the
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scanner in the potato hut to make better copies.
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<p>Scanned survey notes are voluminous and so are not kept in the version control system. Instead it is all kept
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in the file bucket "expofiles" on the expo server in Cambridge.
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<p>You will be using the expo laptop to do the scanning
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and you will put all the scan files in the folder for your wallet, e.g. for 2018#22 it is:
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<pre>
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/home/expo/expofiles/surveyscans/2018/2018#22/
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</pre>
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and tell someone nerdy when you have finished and they will
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ensure that it is copied to the expo server.
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If you want to do this yourself, or are using your own laptop, then learn how to use Filezilla
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- as <a href="../uploading.html">documented for uploading your expo photographs</a>. The correct folder
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on the expo server is the same as that on the expo laptop- because we set up the expo laptop to be like that.
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<h3>Typing in the survey data in survex format</h3>
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<p>[This has been described in several places and we are in the process of consolidating
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the documentation and getting rid of out of date notes.]
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<p>The survey data typed up must include all the notes, including station details and passage
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names. Make a backup copy to another machine or USB stick as soon as you have typed it in.
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<p>Survex cave data belongs in the repository "loser", e.g.
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loser "caves-1623/264/mongolrally.svx".
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<p>If you have never worked with the distributed version control system before,
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then you will be using the expo laptop to create the .svx file and
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you will put it in the folder
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<pre>
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/home/expo/loser/caves-1623/264/mongolrally.svx
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</pre>
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and tell someone nerdy when you have finished and they will
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ensure that it is <em>saved, committed, </em>and<em> pushed</em> appropriately.
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<p>If you have several parts of the cave surveyed on one trip, create several distinct .svx files.
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<ul>
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<li><a href="getin.htm">From muddy book to survex plot</a> - the survex file format (to be revised)
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<li><a href="drawup.htm">Drawing up your survey</a> - incomplete and a bit out of date
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<li><a href="athome.htm">Back in the UK</a> - not really part of the process
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<li><a href="/expofiles/presentations/cave_surveying_20130626.pdf">Training course slidepack</a>
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</ul>
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<h3>Running survex to create a centre-line</h3>
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<p><em>to be documented</em>
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<h3>Transcribing and re-scanning your sketches</h3>
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<p><em>to be documented</em>
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<h3>Using tunnel for final survey production</h3>
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<p><em>to be documented</em>
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<p>Tunnel only produces plan surveys, but they are very pretty.
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<hr />
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<li><a href="../index.htm">Expedition Handbook</a>
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<li><a href="index.htm">Survey Handbook</a>
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</ul>
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