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< h2 id = "tophead" > CUCC Expedition Handbook - New Cave< / h2 >
< h1 > Creating a new cave in the online system< / h1 >
< h2 > Great, I have discovered a new cave...< / h2 >
< p > So, you have staggered off the plateau with a fist-full of notes and surveys,
and you want to let the world know of your massive discovery.
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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
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< li > < a href = "../look4.htm" > prospecting introduction< / a > and
< li > < a href = "../survey/index.htm" > survey handbook< / a > which tells you how to record
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survey information in your waterproof notebook. But first you should read the
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< li > < a href = "/expofiles/presentations/cave_surveying_20130626.pdf" >
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Cave Surveying training course slidepack< / a > .
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This page outlines step 1 of the survey production process. Each step is documented separately.< br / >
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- < a href = "newwallet.html" > 2< / a >
- < a href = "newsurvex.html" > 3< / a >
- < a href = "drawup.htm" > 4< / a >
- < a href = "newrig.html" > 5< / a >
- < a href = "caveentry.html" > 6< / a >
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- < a href = "cavedescription.html" > 8< / a >
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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.
Read < em > all< / em > this list first, then follow
the instructions section by section which tell you how to
actually do these things.
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< li > Write up your trip in the < a href = "../logbooks.html" > logbook< / a > including rigging sketches< br / > < br / >
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< li > Put notes in a new wallet
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< li > If it is a new cave, fill out a paper < a href = "/handbook/l/new-cave-form.html" > New Cave form< / a >
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< li > Scan the notes (see < a href = "newwallet.html#onlinew" > "new wallet"< / a > for the filenames to use and < a href = "newwallet.html#scan" > how to use the scanner< / a > )
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< li > Type in survey data (in < a href = "newsurvex.html#rightplace" > the right place< / a > in the file system) in survex format.< br / >
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(This includes passage descriptions and open leads known as QMs: Question Marks).
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< li > Run survex to create a centre-line printout (online in a browser or on your computer)
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< li > Transcribe your sketches onto centre-line paper
< li > Scan your centre-lined sketches
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< li > Use therion or tunnel to digitise your centre-line sketches
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< li > Connect your survey to the surveys of other caves by fixing the entrance location.
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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 > Upload your < a href = "../computing/gpxupload.html" > GPS track< / a > to the cave and file photos of the entrance
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< li > Create a new folder in the file system for the wallet data (automatic when using the Upload form)
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< li > Create a new folder in the file system for the survex data (automatic when using the online survex edit form)
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< li > Create a "new cave entry" for the guidebook description
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< li > Write the < b > full cave description< / b > into the correct html files.
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(This will mean copying the passage descriptions from the survex files.)
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< li > Update the index tick boxes on paper in the wallets lever-arch file in the potato hut: as your wallet progresses through this process
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< li > Update the online record of those tick boxes using the online form, e.g. for < a href = "/walletedit/2022:01" > wallet 2022#01< / a >
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< li > Check the online list of outstanding survey tasks for all the wallets for the current year: < a href = "wallets/year/2022" > 2022< / a > .
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< li > < a href = "/handbook/survey/athome.htm" > Back in the UK< / a >
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< p > This documentation assumes that you have recorded your survey data in
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 familiar
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the overall process, look at the < a href = "pdanotes.html" > PDA additional notes< / a > .
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< h3 > The Process in brief< / h3 >
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New cave process
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├ ─ ─ 1 Creating a new cave in the online system
│ ├ ─ ─ Prospecting introduction
│ ├ ─ ─ Survey handbook
│ ├ ─ ─ Cave Surveying training course slidepack
│ ├ ─ ─ Logbook write-up
│ ├ ─ ─ GPS track upload
│ ├ ─ ─ list of outstanding survey tasks
│ ├ ─ ─ PDA additional notes
│ └ ─ ─ How to use the scanner
├ ─ ─ 2 Creating a new survey wallet
│ ├ ─ ─ New cave data sheet
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│ ├ ─ ─ What is a wallet?
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│ └ ─ ─ Maintaining the online wallets
├ ─ ─ 3 Creating a new survex file
│ ├ ─ ─ How to create a survex file - PDF - Brendan's guide
│ ├ ─ ─ From muddy book to survex plot
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│ ├ ─ ─ Cave description
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│ ├ ─ ─ Adding QMs (Question Marks)
│ └ ─ ─ Fixing the entrance location
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├ ─ ─ 4 Drawing up your survey
│ ├ ─ ─ How to use Tunnel - PDF - Brendan's guide
│ ├ ─ ─ Guide to using Tunnel - PDF - David Loeffler's guide
│ ├ ─ ─ Upload Drawings form
│ ├ ─ ─ the Uploads Folder
│ ├ ─ ─ uploads/my_new_subfolder
│ └ ─ ─ Cave Mapping - Sketching the Detail
├ ─ ─ 5 New rigging guide
├ ─ ─ 6 Creating a new cave in the online system
│ ├ ─ ─ new cave file method
│ │ ├ ─ ─ cave_data template
│ │ └ ─ ─ entrance_data template
│ ├ ─ ─ New Cave form
│ ├ ─ ─ Edit this cave
│ └ ─ ─ the full list of data-entry fields
├ ─ ─ 7 Creating a new entrance in the online system
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│ ├ ─ ─ Entrance entry page fields
│ │ ├ ─ ─ cave_data template
│ │ └ ─ ─ entrance_data template
│ └ ─ ─ Entrance locations in more detail
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├ ─ ─ 8 Next steps
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< p > Now go the the next page [2] in this sequence < a href = "newwallet.html" > Creating a new survey wallet"< / a > .
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