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< title > CUCC Austria Expeditions: QM list conventions< / title >
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< h1 > Question Mark list conventions< / h1 >
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< p > This page is somewhat outdated. For the current 21st century QM methods,
where we store QMs in the survex files, see
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< li > < a href = "qmentry.html" > QM data and cave descriptions< / a >
< li > < a href = "newsurvex.html#tickqm" > Entering the QM data< / a >
< li > Only if really keen: < a href = "../troggle/scriptsqms.html" > QMs - the fourfold path< / a >
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< p > The format for question mark lists is QM identifier, Quality Grade, Area
indicator, decription of QM. The QM numbers themselves are in the format
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Discoverer identifier, Year of discovery, Cave identifier, serial number.
< p > [Archaic: If
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you look at the html, you will find that the nearest survey station (without
its "< cavenumber> ." prefix) is included in an html comment for almost all
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leads.]< / p >
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< p > In general, an unpushed QM will have a link from its QM number in the
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cave description file to the HTML QM list file (generated by a perl script for caves 204, 234 and 258), and a link from the list to the relevant point in the
description. If there is no link, it means that we can't yet work out where the
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QM is in the description, or the description doesn't yet exist :-).< / p >
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< h2 > Discoverer identifiers< / h2 >
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< dt > A< / dt >
< dd > ARGE< / dd >
< dt > B< / dt >
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< dd > Groupe Spé lé o de Clerval - Baume les Dames < / dd >
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< dt > C< / dt >
< dd > Cambridge University Caving Club< / dd >
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< h2 > Quality grades< / h2 >
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< dt > A< / dt >
< dd > A fine QM - git down there and look. < / dd >
< dt > B< / dt >
< dd > Not so promising, or requiring some effort (eg. a climb) < / dd >
< dt > C< / dt >
< dd > Pretty cruddy, or good but very hard to get to.< / dd >
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< dt > D< / dt >
< dd > A dig- only possible to continue if loose rocks or soil are removed.< / dd >
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< dt > V< / dt >
< dd > An aven which might be climbable, but not adequately assessed< / dd >
< dt > X< / dt >
< dd > A high, wet or unsafe-looking aven unlikely to be climbed< / dd >
< dt > ?< / dt >
< dd > No-one writing this list actually knows!< / dd >
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< p > Note that the quality grades are assigned by the explorers at the time, and
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that subsequent discoveries may mean that the grade is optimistic, since the
lead may now drop into passage which wasn't then explored. Also, different
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explorers have different ideas, or different waist sizes - one man's "A-lead"
may be another's "C-lead" :-(< / p >
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Go to < a href = "qmentry.html" > Adding QMs to survex< / a > < / body >
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