From 345387755986102c8eeb88c3dd0777452b5fb622 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Expo on server
+
+If these data are not entered along with the rest of the survey data, it is as if you decided not to enter
+some of the actual passage data you surveyed: information is being lost and someone will have to
+trawl back through all the survey data at a later time to keep it up-to-date, a very tedious task which
+is a very inefficient use of time.
+ Also if the person reading it hasn't been to the bit of cave (which is, like, the whole point, then the
+data has a higher chance of being incorrect. It is not always easy to interpret Tunnel or Therion drawings correctly
+with this sort of thing.
+
Ticking off a QM
+
Below is part of the current template file (square brackets must be removed as
real content replaces template text):
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@@ -136,16 +146,8 @@ real content replaces template text):
;Serial number TICK date resolution description
;[QM2 TICK 2022-07-20 This is an example ticked QM]
--If these data are not entered along with the rest of the survey data, it is as if you decided not to enter -some of the actual passage data you surveyed: information is being lost and someone will have to -trawl back through all the survey data at a later time to keep it up-to-date, a very tedious task which -is a very inefficient use of time. -
Also if the person reading it hasn't been to the bit of cave (which is, like, the whole point, then the -data has a higher chance of being incorrect. It is not always easy to interpret Tunnel or Therion drawings correctly -with this sort of thing. -
Since 2015 we have had no generally-agreed, well-documented or widely-practiced way of recording whether a QM has been ticked-off or not.
In the past, this was done by @@ -184,9 +186,5 @@ development in our online systems. The current status is Survey handbook - survex format".
- - - -