Troggle programmers guide - beginnings

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<a href="/personexpedition/BeckaLawson/2009">attributed</a>, or maybe you have
seen an <a href="/survey_scans/">obvious gap in the cross-referencing</a> and would like to fix it.
<h3>Survey Data</h3>
<h3 id="surveydata">Survey Data</h3>
<p>We have a <a href="todo-data.html">Expo <em>Data</em> To-Do List</a>. If all you do is to check items on this list
and email a nerd to tell them which have already been done then that would be excellent. And if you discover any bad or missing survey data then here is where you record the problem (see "Edit this page" below).
and email a nerd to tell them which have already been done then that would be excellent.
And if you discover any bad or missing survey data then here is
where you record the problem (see "Edit this page" below).
<p>The biggest job after every expo is "tunneling": turning the typed-up survex data into drawings.
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But the <a href="/expofiles/surveyscans/2019/walletindex.html">outstanding tasks list</a> after expo
is always much longer than we would like.
So <a href="/survexfile/291">the list of surveys attached to a cave</a> is incomplete,
as can be seen by looking at <a href="">the equivalent logbook records of trips</a> for those dates
as can be seen by looking at
<a href="/logbookentry/2019-07-13/2019.s08.plateau-fi">the equivalent logbook records of trips</a>
for those dates
(scroll down to the bottom of the expedition page for the calendar).
<p>There is always a backlog of surveyed caves that need their scanned centrelines annotating with
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In 1999 and earlier the scanned notes and wallets are not connected to the survex files either as you can see
in the blank "survex blocks" column in <a href="/survey_scans/">the survey scans folders</a> list.
<h3>Programming</h3>
<h3 id="programming">Programming</h3>
<p>The expo software system is a multi-decade long-term project. So it is probably unlike
any software projects you have been involved with. It is quite unlike other Django projects.