diff --git a/handbook/survey/getin.htm b/handbook/survey/getin.htm index b519331e0..a0231c7b6 100644 --- a/handbook/survey/getin.htm +++ b/handbook/survey/getin.htm @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
+Where to put your data: If in doubt, ask!. These instructions assume that you are typing it in on the expo laptop. (You can do it fom your own -laptop if you have been initiated into the deep magic of the "loser" repository +laptop if you have been initiated into the deep magic of the ":loser:" repository of the distributed version control system - see the list of repos.
It will be easiest if you start from one of the existing template files, -as these have lines to remind you to add various details - make sure you +
The beginner should start from the existing template file :loser:/template/template.svx +as this has lines to remind you to add various details - make sure you don't leave any blanks! Copy and rename this to where you want to put your data before editing it. Too many people have overwritten the template in the past, try not to do this yourself. +
Working by editing a .svx file from another bit of the same cave may seem like a short cut but whoever edited it may have deleted some of the helpful and useful hints that are in the template.svx file - so don't do this please, until you really know what you are doing. -
There is no restriction on the length of these names, but as they can be displayed in aven, tunnel and other such programs, it helps not to have @@ -126,7 +128,7 @@ anything too elaborate. Older versions of survex required each prefix to be unique in its first eight characters, and this is not a bad guideline to follow.
Every station should have a number within your survey even if it is an existing station to which you have connected. Any survey stations which @@ -143,6 +145,8 @@ cryptic for the uninitiated, it may be best not to try to link your survey to everything else so skip the next bit and read on from here.
+However, if you need to see your survey in relation to the rest of the dataset:
@@ -183,7 +187,7 @@ successfully, and numbered it within your own survey as station 0. Then you might create the following file: (note we don't use umlauts) -File wibble.svx +-File wibble.svx *begin wibble ; Locn: Totes Gebirge, Austria - Loser/Augst-Eck Plateau (kataster group 1623) @@ -211,18 +215,19 @@ caves/204/swings/ermintrude.svx. --> ;stn L R U D Desc ;1 0.7 0.4 0.3 0.5 RP top of boulder [and the rest of the station details] -*end wibble +*end wibbleThat 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 +
That lot would be typed by copying :loser:/template/template.svx to +:loser:/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-1623/204/swings/allswings.svx add the lines:
+:loser:/caves-1623/204/swings/allswings.svx add the lines: --*include wibble ++ ++*include wibble *equate wibble.0 swings5.2 -Split surface and underground files
Remember not to put surface data and underground data in the same file, even if they are part of one continuous survey. You need to create two @@ -230,6 +235,7 @@ files, with a defined station for the entrance, and a suitable equate in the file which includes both surface stuff and underground stuff.
+Postprocessing and Update
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 @@ -237,7 +243,7 @@ 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.
-Now see the "Drawing it up" page.
+Return to "Survey handbook - survex format".
diff --git a/handbook/survey/qmentry.html b/handbook/survey/qmentry.html index 3daea3d7e..7c2347006 100644 --- a/handbook/survey/qmentry.html +++ b/handbook/survey/qmentry.html @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ -Handbook - Doing a new cave - QMs @@ -84,6 +83,7 @@ drawings correctly with this sort of thing.Conclusion
Survey data recorded in .svx files is incomplete if there is no QM List data and cave description data! +
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