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handbook/index.htm

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
   <li><a href="geartape.html">Label my gear and stuff</a> - the gear-tape colours in use.</li>
   <li><a href="lights.html">Charge my light</a> - at top camp and at base camp.</li><br>
   <li><a href="phone.htm">Send a message to top camp</a> - or base camp.</li><br>
+  <li><a href="logbooks.html">Type up my trip </a> - in the logbook</li>
   <li><a href="uploading.html">Upload my photos</a> - of people, landscape and cave entrances.</li>
   <li><a href="essentials.html">Download GPS data to my device</a> - to find caves and to not get lost.</li>
   <li><a href="gpxupload.html">Upload GPS data from my phone (or device)</a> -  where I found a new cave.</li>
@@ -65,6 +66,8 @@
 <dt><a href="datamgt.html">Cave data management</a></dt>
 <dd>The biggest surprise for new people on expo are the intense efforts on recording and 
 managing cave data. This tells you why.<br><br>
+The most basic data we keep is the record of your trip in the logbook and then 
+<a href="logbooks.html">typing that in online</a>.<br><br>
 When you discover and survey a new cave we have <a href="survey/newcave.html">a good process</a> for recording the discovery and the cave data.</dd>
 
 <dt><a href="look4.htm">Prospecting Issues </a></dt>

handbook/logbooks.html

@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ which is then synchronised the version control system.
 your speculations and ideas for what looks promising  and what is obvious but doesn't go: things that are vital to future expoers. And please, please
 do lots of sketches in the logbook.
 
+<p>The contents of both the topcamp logbook and the basecamp logbook are typed into the same  
+"logbook.html" file for archiving. The drawings are scanned and stored in the same place, and hand-edited
+into the logbook.html file after expo finished.
+
 <p>If this is all new to you, please now read <a href="datamgt.html">Cave data management</a>, 
 and <a href="survey/why.htm">why we make surveys</a> and then the 
 <a href="survey/index.htm">Survey Handbook</a>
@@ -40,6 +44,16 @@ ensure that the updates from all the people entering trip data are OK and don't
 
 <p>Logbooks are typed up and kept in the [expoweb]/years/[nnnn]/ directory as 'logbook.html'.</p>
 
+<h3>Recommended procedure</a></h3>
+<p>
+Rather than editing logbook.html when you type up your trip, it is a much better 
+idea to type up your trip(s) in a separate file, e.g. "logbook-rt.html", and store it in the same 
+place on the <em>expo laptop</em>, i.e.
+<pre>
+/home/expoweb/years/2018/
+</pre>
+<p>or email it to a nerd if you are sitting at a different laptop.
+
 <h3>Format of the online logbooks</a></h3>
 
 

handbook/survey/index.htm

@@ -37,7 +37,13 @@ detailed topics.</p>
 	<ul>
 		<li><a href="what.htm">What is a cave survey ?</a></li>
 		<li><a href="why.htm">Why am I doing this ?</a></li>
-	</ul></li>
+	</ul>
+  </li>
+	<li><b>For those new to CUCC expo surveying:</b>
+	<ul>
+		<li><a href="newcave.html">The complete process for recording cave data</a></li>
+	</ul>
+  </li>
 	<li><b>For those carrying out a survey:</b>
 	<ul>
 		<li>Methods: <a href="how.htm">underground</a></li>

handbook/survey/newcave.html

@@ -115,9 +115,26 @@ and you will put all the scan files in the folder for your wallet, e.g. for 2018
 </pre>
 and tell someone nerdy when you have finished and they will 
 ensure that it is copied to the expo server. 
-If you want to do this yourself, or are using your own laptop, then learn how to use Filezilla
+[If you want to do this yourself, or are using your own laptop, then learn how to use Filezilla
 - as <a href="../uploading.html">documented for uploading your expo photographs</a>. The correct folder
-on the expo server is the same as that on the expo laptop- because we set up the expo laptop to be like that.
+on the expo server is the same as that on the expo laptop- because we set up the expo laptop to be like that.]
+
+<h3 id="runsurvex">Storing your electronic survey files</h3>
+<p>If you used a PDA instead of making notes on paper, you need to store your .topo files in the right place.
+
+<p>If you using the expo laptop you can put the .topo files in a special "X" folder for your virtual 
+wallet, as there is no physical wallet, 
+e.g. for 2018#X16 it would be:
+<pre>
+/home/expo/expofiles/surveyscans/2018/2018#X16/
+</pre>
+and tell someone nerdy when you have finished and they will 
+ensure that it is copied from the <em>expo laptop</em> to the expo server. 
+
+<p>[If all else fails, use the "Upload your photos" documented process and store 
+the .topo files where you would have stored your .jpg photo files. Otherwise you can email all the .topo files
+to a friendly nerd who will put them in the right place.]
+<p><em>to be further documented - probably in a separate page</em>
 
 <h3 id="survexformat">Typing in the survey data in survex format</h3>
 <p>[This has been described in several places and we are in the process of consolidating 
@@ -148,6 +165,8 @@ ensure that it is <em>saved, committed, </em>and<em> pushed</em> appropriately.
 <h3 id="runsurvex">Running survex to create a centre-line</h3>
 <p><em>to be documented</em>
 
+
+
 <h3>Transcribing and re-scanning your sketches</h3>
 <p><em>to be documented</em> See <a href="survey/drawup.htm">drawing up the sketches</a>.