From 66b1fec28e0a89bb658d6f23254a66b7a0cf9629 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philip Sargent
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2026 12:21:24 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix - online edit of handbook/essentials.html - on dev
machine 'Mohawk'
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handbook/essentials.html | 15 +++++----------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/handbook/essentials.html b/handbook/essentials.html
index 90826668d..2302bff3d 100644
--- a/handbook/essentials.html
+++ b/handbook/essentials.html
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
When walking on the plateau, turn on location tracking in Google Maps, or your GPS app, before you leave the car park and share your location with someone you know at base camp and/or top camp.
Don't be misled by the apparent simplicity of the tracks. The plateau is very broken and is an unremitting extent of cliffs, holes and impassable dwarf-larch scrub ("bunde" as it is known on expo). You can be 5m from the route and have lost it entirely. The walk to and from
- the col leading to the plateau is comparatively easy as it is an obvious path, and is marked and signposted in the earlier section.
+ the col leading to the plateau is comparatively easy as it is an obvious path, and is marked and signposted in the earlier section. But after the climb down onto the plateau you it is a "route" not a path.
Quick start for Android devices, 2024
@@ -47,17 +47,12 @@
If the quick start doesn't work for you, go to the general instructions further down this page.
-GPS for prospecting
+GPS for prospecting
+This is much harder to get right than you think. Read our dedicated page on locating cave entrances
+
-
When using your phone for prospecting for new caves, or refinding old entrances, there are two further useful files that you should consider downloading:
-
- - entrances2024 - location of all known cave entrances.
- - kataster-boundaries-as-tracks - these are not paths but separate areas with
-different mapping designations.
- These are the smooth, curved lines. They are used by prospectors when naming new caves.
- - Location fixing: How to obtain a fixed point for a cave survey "Galileo High Accuracy Service (HAS) is due to become partly available in 2022 and fully available in 2024, which will offer RTPPP for free around the world, both via satellite and network connections. And there will be much rejoicing. "
-
Adding aerial photo data overlay to OsmAnd on Android, 2024
+
- Go to the AnyGis OsmAnd page
- Follow the link to "Download maps by one file (sqlitedb)" and select the "Bing Birds Eye" map