diff --git a/cave_data/1623-2023-JS-02.html b/cave_data/1623-2023-JS-02.html index 83cfb1bfc..bd90a20b0 100644 --- a/cave_data/1623-2023-JS-02.html +++ b/cave_data/1623-2023-JS-02.html @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ - +
-This file is generated by troggle on Aug. 20, 2023, 5:14 p.m. UTC using the form documented at +This file is generated by troggle on Oct. 17, 2023, 4:16 p.m. UTC using the form documented at the form documented at handbook/survey/caveentry.htmlThe (strongly) recommended procedure is to take a specific GPS measurement at a well-defined point and to write down the location on your prospecting survey notes. Then for a new discovery it will be copied onto the New Cave data sheet.
Note that we record the location in degrees and decimals of degrees: 47.69055 13.80841
and the altitude is in metres.
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The altitude is not nearly as vital as the lat/long numbers. GPS altitudes are still pretty bad, and even the new Galileo system won't promise anything better than ± 0.4m in 2030. (If you take the altitude from a track while moving the altitude can easily be 15m wrong.)
See the bottom of this page for how the location information is typed in. @@ -245,7 +245,6 @@ telling them to use the online form.]
The location of the cave is, eventually, stored in a survex file, just not the same survex file.
If you are doing this for the first time, don't bother with this *fix stuff. Just type the latitude & logitude numbers into the New Entrance form and someone else will do the *fix stuff. -
There is a lot more to say about how to record the best GPS data, and how to link GPS with survey points. See more on *fix.
The last part of the survex file is a description of the passage surveyed. Remember