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added a new introduction to coordinate systems and conversions between them
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@@ -133,14 +133,17 @@ it seems) write it down by hand on one of the A5 cave info sheets with all the
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other details of your cave and put that in the surveys ringbinder file. </p>
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<p>If you want to read about the nitty gritty of converting GPS coordinates to
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the ones used by the Kataster system, you can do no better than read Wookey's
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<a href="../../years/1996/gps.htm">Compass Points Article</a>. Briefly, this
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says "it's horribly complicated and we don't really know how to do it
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properly". Things have improved a little since those days, particularly as
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without the fog of the SA variation it's now easy to find out whether your GPS
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is set up right by just GPSsing a known point and comparing the results.
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However, the main point of having a GPS fix on an entrance is so we can find it
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again and be sure it is the same one!</p>
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the ones used by the Kataster system, you can do no better than read the
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short introduction to <a href="coord.htm">coordinate systems</a>, which briefly
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says "it's horribly complicated and we use computer programs to do it properly".
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(A rather outdated first attempt at this can also be found in Wookey's
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<a href="../../years/1996/gps.htm">Compass Points Article</a> from 1996, which
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briefly says "it's horribly complicated and we don't really know how to do it
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properly".) Overall things have significantly improved since the early days,
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particularly as without the fog of the SA variation it's now easy to find out
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whether your GPS is set up right by just GPSsing a known point and comparing
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the results. However, the main point of having a GPS fix on an entrance is
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so we can find it again and be sure it is the same one!</p>
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