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Sorting out troggle design docum.

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handbook/survey/drawup.htm
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@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ as the scanned notes, i.e. (for wallet #19) you would put them in:
<tt>
/home/expo/expofiles/surveyscans/2018/2018#19/
</tt>
(but this is not where you will put your finished drawings.)
<h3 id="therion">Using tunnel or therion for final survey production</h3>
<ul>
@@ -67,9 +67,11 @@ as the scanned notes, i.e. (for wallet #19) you would put them in:
<p>The tunnel (or therion) files should NOT stored in the same folder as the scanned notes. They will eventually
be uploaded to the version control repository
<var><a href="../computing/repos.html">drawings</a></var>
but for a first attempt store them on the <em>expo laptop</em> in /home/expo/drawings/{cavenumber}.
but for a first attempt store them on the <em>expo laptop</em> in <var>/home/expo/drawings/{cavenumber}</var>.
Look at what is in there already and ask someone whcih directory to put them in. It will probably be a folder like this:
/home/expo/drawings/264-and-258/toimport/ .
<tt>
/home/expo/drawings/264-and-258/toimport/
</tt>
<p>Take the printed centre lines and redraw the survey round it, working from
the original sketches as if this was to be the final published survey. You
@@ -121,10 +123,11 @@ which will be encountered (eg. if it is a climb, are bolts going to be
needed ? If a dig, is it a few loose boulders or a crawl over mud?)</p>
<h3>Archaic: hand-drawing the final survey</h3>
<p>The actual published cave-survey is produced by software these days.
These notes come from a different age but reading them will make your tunneling better
and more polished.
and more polished:
<div style="margin-left: 3em; margin-right: 4em"><em>
<p>Drawing a cave entirely by hand is not easy but anyone can learn to do it.
Read the brief <a href="/expofiles/documents/surveying/XI-2-11.pdf">Cave Mapping - Sketching the Detail"</a>
5-page llustrated guide by Ken Grimes which makes everything clear.
@@ -160,6 +163,8 @@ experience: it's now late April 2004, and the 204 survey is only just
approaching completion. This shows how easy it is for these things to go wrong.
The chief problems were a change of software and the fact that the Expo printer
broke down last summer, so a number of surveys never got drawn up. -->
</em></div>
<hr />
<p>Back to the previous page in this sequence <a href="newsurvex.html">Starting a new survex file</a>.
<br />Now go the the next page in this sequence <a href="newrig.html">Creating a new rigging guide"</a>.

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@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ didn't. Without detailed recording and surveying of the caves, it would
rapidly become more difficult to find new passage, or to be sure that round
the next corner wouldn't be a load of previous explorers' footprints.</p>
<a href="../computing/onlinesystems.html">
<img style="margin:10px auto 20px; display:block"
width=70% src="../computing/go-caving.jpg"></a>
<p>The main aim of the expedition is to explore new passages - to boldly
explore what noone has seen before. Indeed, in many cases, what noone even
suspected was there. This is the fun and excitement of expo, so why spoil it