From 8278434e152c6b1152c2a3bb731d1ed40485fc58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philip Sargent Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:08:59 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] survex file and finishing survey page --- handbook/bike.html | 5 +- handbook/geartape.html | 120 +++++++++++++------------ handbook/survey/athome.htm | 66 +++++++++----- handbook/survey/getin.htm | 166 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------- handbook/survey/newcave.html | 6 +- piclinks/typing.htm | 4 +- 6 files changed, 211 insertions(+), 156 deletions(-) diff --git a/handbook/bike.html b/handbook/bike.html index c12d4dc8a..29a7dc1d8 100644 --- a/handbook/bike.html +++ b/handbook/bike.html @@ -15,10 +15,9 @@ hitched up from there. It's still hard work - especially from Alt Aussee to Bla

Bike Lock

-Lock code: 1241
+Lock code: 161
-

This is easily remembered if you just recall that this is the year that the Mongols invaded -Poland. +

Lights and basket

There are no bike lights (use a couple of head-torches, one with red LEDs facing backwards) and no basket or paniers. Use a rucksack.

History

diff --git a/handbook/geartape.html b/handbook/geartape.html index 350bedc9e..8d8a1c042 100644 --- a/handbook/geartape.html +++ b/handbook/geartape.html @@ -42,6 +42,17 @@ Purple 2018 + + + +Grey duct tape + + Ryan Boultbee (NUCC) + +2018 + + + Green @@ -124,33 +135,11 @@ Red toughtags Expo? - - -***, -*** - - Ryan Boultbee (NUCC) - -2018 - ***, -*** - -Phil Underwood - -2018 - - - - - - - -***, -*** +? Jim Blackford (UBSS) @@ -159,7 +148,7 @@ Red toughtags ***, -*** +? Lisa Smith (UBSS) @@ -171,7 +160,7 @@ Red toughtags ***, -*** +? Dickon Hood (UBSS) @@ -180,7 +169,7 @@ Red toughtags ***, -*** +? Olly Hall (SUSS) @@ -191,17 +180,19 @@ Red toughtags -***, -*** +***, + +? Todd Rye (MUSC) 2018 + ***, -*** +? Philip Withnall @@ -244,16 +235,17 @@ Black - - -Earth, -Blue + +Black, +Green - Natalie (from Expo2008) +Jon Arne Toft 2018 + + Black, @@ -263,12 +255,20 @@ Red 2018 - + +Black, Blue + +Chris Densham + +2018 + -Blue, Brown + +Brown, +Blue Ruairidh Macleod @@ -284,14 +284,7 @@ Red 2018 - -Green, -Black - -Jon Arne Toft - -2018 - + Purple, @@ -301,7 +294,15 @@ Red 2018 - + + +Purple, +Blue + +Lydia-Clare Leather (NUCC) + +2018 + White, Red @@ -344,21 +345,32 @@ Red + + -Black, Blue +Blue, + +Earth + + -Chris Densham - -2018 - - -Blue, Purple - -Lydia-Clare Leather (NUCC) + Natalie (from Expo2008) 2018 + + +Orange, + +Earth + + + + Ryan Boultbee (NUCC) + +2018 +
diff --git a/handbook/survey/athome.htm b/handbook/survey/athome.htm index 0e1909030..f88ea1d73 100644 --- a/handbook/survey/athome.htm +++ b/handbook/survey/athome.htm @@ -11,47 +11,61 @@

In the UK

In an ideal world, we would have a beautifully drawn up survey and -detailed guidebook descriptions of everything ready to show at the BCRA -conference (mid-September). Although we are getting better, it is in fact a -struggle to get these before next expedition ! Life is made particularly +detailed guidebook descriptions of everything ready to show at the + +Hidden Earth +conference (September). Although we are getting better, it is in fact a +struggle to get these before next expedition. Life is made particularly difficult when bits of data and description arrive in dribs and drabs, meaning a lot of piecemeal updating. By the time the majority of expo members are back in Cambridge, it is at least two months since the return home, all urgency has been lost and memories have faded. To avoid this, think:

-

Did you have to leave Austria without finishing your sketching ? Use the -post or visit Cambridge! Get hold of a centre line and draw up your survey +

Did you have to leave Austria without finishing your sketching ? Use the +post or visit Cambridge! Get hold of a centre line (ask someone if you don't know how) and draw up your survey as soon as possible - don't leave it to the start of next term when your memory will have faded. Some entirely nonsensical surveys have been produced by surveys being drawn up by people other than the original explorers, in the pub, several months later

-

Have you written a passage description ? If not, do it when you get home. +

Have you written a passage description ? If not, do it when you get home. If you can type it, so much the better, email it to any or preferably all of -Martin Green <mjg54> at cam.ac.uk, Mark Shinwell <mrs30> at cam.ac.uk, -David Loeffler <dl267> at cam.ac.uk, Wookey <wookey> at aleph1.co.uk and -anyone else relevant. -Failing that, send a disc to one of the above people (someone with email, at -least) or whoever is in Cambridge doing the drawing up. If you have to write it -on paper, photocopy it, send a copy to whoever has the survey book (to glue in) -and to someone else who will take the trouble to type it up and circulate it.

+Mark Shinwell <mshinwell> at Gmail, Philip Sargent <p.m.sargent.72> at cantab.net + Wookey <wookey> at aleph1.co.uk and +anyone else relevant or whoever is in Cambridge doing the drawing up. -

Have you got the survey book or the log book ? Photocopy it so there is a -back up and get copies to other addresses before your house burns down. Get -copies (or the original) to Andy, Wookey, whoever is doing the drawing up, or +
If you have to write it +on paper, photocopy it or scan it and post or email it to whoever has the survey book (to glue in) +and to someone else who will take the trouble to type it up.

+ +

Have you got the survey book or a + +logbook? +Photocopy it, or phototgraph all the pages with your camera, so there is a +back up and get copies to other addresses before your house burns down. +
Check what has already been typed up by looking at the online copy of the +published logbooks +
Get +copies (or the original) to the expo leader or Wookey or whoever is doing the drawing up, or anyone who will volunteer to type in the logbook or cave descriptions.

-

Have you got some good (even recognisable...) photographs ? Offer them -to whoever is doing the BCRA lecture. Try to get them scanned and send -jpegs to Andy, or even better, let Andy have 35mm negatives (not the -prints) or slides to scan - he now has a Nikon scanner which does even -better than the Photo-CD resolution used for the 1996 images..

+

Have you got some good (even recognisable...) photographs ? +Offer them to those who are writing blog posts and +to whoever is doing the Hidden Earth lecture. Upload them using +these instructions. -

Have you some unique experience or amusing anecdote? Write an article -for the exCS/CUCC mailing list, for the web site and/or the journal.

+

Have you got some GPS tracks on your device which you never did anything with? Upload them using +Upload them for future expos using these instructions. -

Is the only copy of the survey data on your computer ? Get it backed up, +

Have you some unique experience or amusing anecdote? +Tweet it @CUCC_Expo, +write an article +for this year's + UK Caving blog, +the Expo or CUCC mailing list, for the web site, or for publishing in a caving magazine.

+ +

Is the only copy of any survey data on your computer? Get it backed up, preferably including copies to other people involved. Multiple disc failures have caused total loss of the Kaninchenhöhle dataset once already, and backup to another site saves almost infinite grief.

@@ -68,6 +82,10 @@ under it), and update the whole lot so it's consistent with current XHTML standards. While you should be revising for your exams. I ought to get 'mug' tattooed across my forehead. DL 2004.04.22. --> + +
-

To make that all a bit more concrete, here is a +

Now you have been typing this on the expo laptop, and before you let someone +else use the laptop you need to find a nerd to do the deep magic to add your +file to the version control repository "loser". Watching the nerd do this is +usually your first initiation into learning how to do it yourself. + + +

Example svx file

+ +

To make that all a bit more concrete, here is a fictitious example of a survey off Swings & Roundabouts in 204. Let's say that you went to explore a lead from the QM list numbered 2002-99, that the nearest survey station was listed as 204.allswings.swings5.2 and you found it @@ -156,10 +213,10 @@ caves/204/swings/ermintrude.svx. --> *end wibble -

That lot would be typed by copying caves/204/template.svx to -caves/204/swings/wibble.svx and then filling in the blanks and adding your +

That lot would be typed by copying caves-1623/204/template.svx to +caves-1623/204/swings/wibble.svx and then filling in the blanks and adding your data. If you are linking to the rest of the survey then in the file -caves/204/swings/allswings.svx add the lines:

+caves-1623/204/swings/allswings.svx add the lines:

 *include wibble
@@ -174,7 +231,7 @@ the file which includes both surface stuff and underground stuff.

 
 
Once you have your data typed in and checked, it must be run through the
 survey software (which on expo will be Survex) and a centre line printed, both for
+href="http://www.survex.com/">survex) and a centre line printed, both for
 plan and for extended elevation. Measure the print out to check that it really
 has printed at the scale you wanted (typically 1:500), as this has sometimes
 caused problems in the past.

@@ -183,36 +240,5 @@ caused problems in the past.

 
 

 
-
 
 
diff --git a/handbook/survey/newcave.html b/handbook/survey/newcave.html
index 2e9789435..a41c93e86 100644
--- a/handbook/survey/newcave.html
+++ b/handbook/survey/newcave.html
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ survey information in your waterproof notebook.
 
  • Write up your trip in the logbook

    
 
  • Put notes in a new wallet
 
  • Scan the notes
-
  • Type in survey data (in the right place in the file system)
+
  • Type in survey data (in the right place in the file system) in survex format.
    
+(This includes passage descriptions and open leads known as QMs: Question Marks).
 
  • Run survex to create a centre-line printout
 
  • Transcribe your sketches onto centre-line paper
 
  • Scan your centre-lined sketches
@@ -35,7 +36,8 @@ survey information in your waterproof notebook.
 
  • Create a new folder in the file system for the wallet data 
 
  • Create a new folder in the file system for the survex data 
 
  • Create a "new cave entry" in the website
-
  • Write the full cave description into the correct html files.
+
  • Write the full cave description into the correct html files. 
    
+(This will mean copying the passage descriptions from the survex files.)
 
  • Update the index tick boxes on paper: as your wallet progresses through this process
 
  • Update the online record of those tick boxes
 
  • Regenerate the list of outstanding survey tasks for everyone
diff --git a/piclinks/typing.htm b/piclinks/typing.htm
index 14c56b79c..bac05c5d0 100644
--- a/piclinks/typing.htm
+++ b/piclinks/typing.htm
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
-
 
 
-
 
 Typing up survey data at Base Camp
 
@@ -9,7 +7,7 @@ Typing up survey data at Base Camp
 
 
 
    
-
    Tony Rooke typing up survey data into a PC in the Potato Hut at
+
    Tony Rooke typing up survey data into a PC in the old Potato Hut at
 Base Camp. This is a vital part of the
 expedition, as it enables exploration to be based on a realistic idea of
 where various passages are relative to each other. If not done whilst on the