diff --git a/handbook/survey/newsurvex.html b/handbook/survey/newsurvex.html index 492abc4d4..a90b5649d 100644 --- a/handbook/survey/newsurvex.html +++ b/handbook/survey/newsurvex.html @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ This page outlines step 3 of the survey production process. Each step is documen

The (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. -

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.