<p>New in 2021 are fields for the latitude and logitude (WGS84 - the same as your GPS displays). These should be entered in degrees with decimals for fractions of a degree, e.g. 42.357 (not 42 degress 21 minutes 25 seconds, or 42 degrees 21.42 minutes).
<p>In previous decades the location of an entrance was the <em>output</em> of a whole lot of surveying and position fixing (e.g. see <ahref="lasers.htm">laser points</a>). Today, the location of an entrance is available by GPS at the <em>beginning</em> of the process. So we have these fields to record the data. [We don't yet have the code to automatically add these to the <var>essentials.gpx</var> download to be used for prospecting though.]
<h2>List of New Cave/Cave_data fields</h2>
<p>The full list of fields is documented: <ahref="ententryfields.html">the full list of data-entry fields</a> when creating an entrance.
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<p>Back to the previous page in this sequence <ahref="newrig.html">New rigging guide</a>.
<br/>A side trip to see how to do this as a file upload process using git, the <ahref="newcavefile.html">cave description data file</a>
<br/>Now go the the next page in this sequence <ahref="cavedescription.html">Write the full cave descriptions with diagrams</a>.
