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<h1>Placeholder</h1>
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<p>This is not the page you were hoping for.
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<p>This will be replaced with the information you want as soon as someone gets around to writing it. Why not find out how to do this yourself ?
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<p>This will be replaced with the information you want as soon as someone gets around to writing it.
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Why not find out how to do this yourself ?
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<p>The instructions for how to edit this page in a browser, or to add your own pages to this handbook are
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in our <a href="../computing/hbmanual1.html">Handbook editing manual</a>.
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<p>Clearly you want this information, and you will now go out and get it elsewhere, so please take a moment when you are
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done to record it here. It will help other people in the same situation as you, and you are clearly THE BEST PERSON to
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do this as you care about it.
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<title>Handbook - survex - Cave Description</title>
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<h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook</h2>
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<h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook - Cave Description</h2>
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<h1>Adding Cave Descriptions</h1>
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<h2>In the survex file</h2>
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<h1>Placeholder</h1>
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<p>This will be replaced with the information you want as soon as someone gets around to writing it. Why not find out how to do this yourself ?
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<style>figure {font-weight: bold; font-size: small; font-family: sans-serif;font-variant-caps: small-caps;}</style>
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<figure>
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<a href="/survexfile/caves-1623/2017-cucc-28/toto_to_crystalcrumble.svx">
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<img src="../i/svx-cave-descript.jpg"></a>
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<figcaption style="font-variant-caps: small-caps;">
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<em>Description of FischGesicht trip on 2018.07.24 (click to open in editor)</em>
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</figcaption>
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</figure>
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</div>
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<p>Cave descriptions are written at the end of the survex block - between <var>*begin</var> and
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<var>*end</var> statements. Conventionally just after
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<a href="qmentry.html">the QMs</a> and before the <var>*end</var> .
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<p>The description is written as a single long line of text. In the online editor it is wrapped to fit the window.
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<code>
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;------------<br />
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;Cave description ;(leave commented-out)<br />
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; See 2017 description for details of GSH up to the 'p50'.
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Briefly, on the way to couldashouldawoulda a 22 m entrance crawl from the
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surface leads to a climb down and a junction. Left leads to easy c
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rawling passage for a short distance, then another junction where
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traversing over a shallow hole and down a stooping-height sandy
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passage to a sharp left turn and a sandy, easy 'squeeze' leading to a
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straighforward p10.
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</code>
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[from <a href="/survexfile/caves-1623/2017-cucc-24/couldashouldawoulda_to_bathdodgersbypass.svx"><em>couldashouldawoulda_to_bathdodgersbypass.svx</em></a>]
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</p>
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<p>You can have several lines of description, as you can see if you follow the link above, but each one must be
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prefixed with a semi-colon otherwise the survex software will complain.
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<p style="margin:4%">
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<em>Technical Note:</em> The syntax for a Cave Description, both the title and the text includes a leading semi-colon.
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So it is syntactically a "comment" so far as the survex software is concerned.
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<hr />
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Return to "<a href="newsurvex.html">Survey handbook - survex format</a>"<br>
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Return to "<a href="qmentry.html">QMs (Question Marks)</a>"<br>
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Return to "<a href="newwallet.html">New survey wallet</a>"
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<h3>Guidebook description</h3>
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<p>
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<p>For a simple cave all the description will go into the "New Cave" form as described here. A more complex cave will have separate HTML files for the different sections and subdirectories to put them all in. Here we only describe the process for a simple cave.
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<p>For a simple cave all the description will go into the "New Cave" form as described here. A more complex cave will
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have separate HTML files for the different sections and subdirectories to put them all in. Here we only describe the
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process for a simple cave.
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<p>
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Complementing the passage description in vertical bits is a <a href="newrig.html">Rigging
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Guide</a>. Keep notes on this as it is the next step after drawing up the survey.
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have been written into the survex files, with more lyrical descriptions written into the logbook for each trip.
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<p>Write a <b>passage descriptions</b> by copying and extending the descriptions
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given in all the component .svx files.
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given in all the component .svx files. You will have seen how these were created in
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the <a
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href="cavedescription.html">Cave Description"</a> handbook page.
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<p>This should be detailed enough to be
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followed by someone in the cave who hasn't been there before, and should
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include all passage names, lengths of pitches and climbs, compass directions
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<hr />
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<div id="menu">
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<ul id="links">
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<li><a href="../index.htm">Expedition Handbook</a>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="../rig/rigit.html">Rigging guide</a></li>
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<li><a href="../survey/index.htm">Surveying guide</a></li>
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<li><a href="../look4.htm">Prospecting guide</a></li>
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<li><a href="../rescue.htm">Rescue guide</a></li>
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</ul></li>
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<li><a href="../../infodx.htm">Main index</a></li>
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<li><a href="../../index.htm">Expo Home</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://camcaving.uk">CUCC Home</a></li>
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passage to a sharp left turn and a sandy, easy 'squeeze' leading to a
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straighforward p10.
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</code>
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[from <a href="../../"><em>couldashouldawoulda_to_bathdodgersbypass.svx</em></a>]
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[from <a href="/survexfile/caves-1623/2017-cucc-24/couldashouldawoulda_to_bathdodgersbypass.svx"><em>couldashouldawoulda_to_bathdodgersbypass.svx</em></a>]
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</p>
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<p>
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Note that the description is often written as one long line. Use the word-wrap capability in your editor
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to make it easier for yourself.
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</p>
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to make it easier for yourself.
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See more detail in the <a href="cavedescription.html">Cave Description"</a> handbook page which also describes eventual HTML publication.
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<h3><a id="onlinesvx">Using the direct online system</a></h3>
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<p>This is where you type up the hand-scrawled notes directly into a a web browser, creating a new online survex file automatically in the right place on the online system.
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<pre> Error: remove all []s from the text. They are only template guidance.
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</pre> below the editing window.
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<br>
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- But if you have done all that, then survex will process your new survex file and tell you interesting things about your survey data below the editing window. ('<a href="https://survex.com/docs/manual/cavern.htm">cavern</a>' is the survex engine which we use to process survex files.)
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<p>You may see a number of error messages below the editing window: <em>read them and understand them</em>. If you don't understand them, <em>ask someone</em>.
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- But if you have done all that, then survex will process your new survex file and tell you interesting things about
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your survey data below the editing window. ('<a href="https://survex.com/docs/manual/cavern.htm">cavern</a>' is the
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survex engine which we use to process survex files.)
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<p style="margin:4%">
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<em>Technical Note:</em> When the survex file is saved, it is being saved to the permanent store on the expo file
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server. It is also being automatically registered in the version control system [or will be, if Philip & Wookey get
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their act together March 2022]. So don't worry about losing data. A super-nerd can always recover it (not a job for an ordinary nerd though).
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<h4>Understanding the messages</h4>
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<p>You may see a number of error messages below the editing window: <em>read them and understand them</em>. If you
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don't understand them, <em>ask someone</em>.
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<p>So using the online system gives you a very, very easy way of syntax-checking your data entry and
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typing up your notes.
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<p style="margin-left:20px">[ Note to maintainers: do not rename these files even if they have been created with the wrong names.
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They are permanently referred to by the tunnel/therion/troggle system !]
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<figure>
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<a href="/scanupload/2018:19">
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<img src="../t/scan-upload-files.jpg"></a>
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<figcaption style="font-variant-caps: small-caps;">
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<em>File list in a wallet (click to open form online)</em>
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</figcaption>
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</figure>
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</div>
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<h3>Uploading the scanned files to the server</h3>
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<ul>
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</ul>
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<p>Upload the scanned files from any computer with internet access using the <a href="/scanupload/2022:01">Upload Scans</a> form.
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You will need to login as user 'expo' with the usual {cavy:beery} password.
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<p>The tickboxes on the form correspond to the tickboxes on <a href="../l/walletindex.html">the paper index sheet</a>
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(shown in more detail <a href="/expofiles/documents/surveying/surveyIndex2022.pdf">here</a>). Note that the paper form has 3 boxes for the survex
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file: the numbers for the survey legs (data), the numbers for the LRUDs, and the description and QMs. You should only tick the online form
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'survex' box when all three have been done.
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<p>The form shows the files already uploaded in the online wallet, and you click on the very large "Choose files" button to open a file
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chooser dialog where you can select several files at once to upload.
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<p>Some of the tickboxes on the lower half of the form correspond to the tickboxes on <a
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href="../l/walletindex.html">the paper index sheet</a> (shown in more detail <a
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href="/expofiles/documents/surveying/surveyIndex2022.pdf">here</a>). Other tickboxes record whether it is a tiny cave
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not worth surveying (no survex, plan or elevation required), a simple pit (no plan required) or a flat grovel (no
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elevation required).
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<div class="onleft">
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<figure>
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<a href="../i/wallet-chkboxes.jpg">
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<img src="../t/wallet-chkboxes.jpg"></a>
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<figcaption style="font-variant-caps: small-caps;">
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<em>Checkboxes on an online wallet<br>(click to enlarge)</em>
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</figcaption>
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</figure>
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</div>
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You can tick the "Cave description" checkbox when you have written the description in the survex file (see <a
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href="cavedescription.html">Cave Description"</a>).
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<p>
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The QMs are written into the survex file as described in the <a href="qmentry.html">Adding QMs</a> handbook page.
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<p>The "Website updated" checkbox is for later when you copy the description text from the survex
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file into the Cave Description page of the online cave registration form. This is described in the <a
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href="cavedescription.html">Cave Description"</a> page and on Step 6 of this survey process
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<a href="caveentry.html">Creating a new cave in the online system</a>.
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<p style="margin:4%">
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[ Note that the paper form has 3 boxes for the survex
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file: the numbers for the survey legs (data), the numbers for the LRUDs, and the description / QMs. The online form only has the QMs and a filename for the survex file. ]
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<p>Scanned survey notes are voluminous and so are not kept in the version control system. So for safety, if you upload a file with the same name as one already there,
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the upload process will add a random suffix to the filename. You will need to contact a nerd to confirm which one you want to keep.
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<pre>
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/home/expo/expofiles/surveyscans/2018/2018#19/
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</pre>
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But then please upload them to the wallet on the server. Don't just leave them on the expo laptop.
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But then please upload them to the wallet on the server using the upload form. Don't just leave them on the expo laptop.
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<p><a href="/scanupload/2018:19">This is what that wallet looks like</a> using
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the <a href="/scanupload/2018:19">Upload Scans</a> form.
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<p>
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<h3 id="runsurvex">Storing your electronic survey .topo files</h3>
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<p>If you used a PDA instead of making notes on paper, you need to store your .topo files.
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Put them in exactly the same place as a scanned survey sketch would go, but also write a paper note and put it in the plastic wallet in the potato hut to prevent someone re-using that wallet number.
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See the <a href="pdanotes">PDA specific instructions</a>
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See the <a href="pdanotes.html">PDA specific instructions</a>
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<p>If you are using the expo laptop just upload the .topo files using the <a href="/scanupload/2022:01">Upload Scans</a> form and also copy them to an ordinary <em>online</em> wallet
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wallet, as there is no physical wallet,
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</ol>
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<h2>You need to know this bit</h2>
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<p>All this information is in <span style="font-family:monospace">expo.survex.com/expofiles/</span> which is <font color=red><b>not under version control</b></font>,
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<p>All this information is in <span style="font-family:monospace">expo.survex.com/expofiles/</span> which is <font color=red><b>not under
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version control</b></font>,
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so the most recent person
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to change anything <font color=red><b>can overwrite everyone else's work</b></font>.
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<p>The instructions for how to edit this page in a browser, or to add your own pages to this handbook are
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in our <a href="../computing/hbmanual1.html">Handbook editing manual</a>.
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<p>Clearly you want this information, and you will now go out and get it elsewhere, so please take a moment when you are
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done to record it here. It will help other people in the same situation as you, and you are clearly THE BEST PERSON to
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do this as you care about it.
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<hr />
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
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<title>Handbook - Doing a new cave - QMs</title>
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<title>Handbook - survex - QMs</title>
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<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../css/main2.css" />
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<ul>
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<li><a href="qm.html">Discoverer identifier</a>, <li>Year of discovery, <li>Cave identifier, <li>serial number.
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</ul>
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but today, with the QMs inside the survex files, the identifiers are just QM1, QM2 etc.
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but today, with the QMs inside the survex files, the identifiers are QM1, QM2 etc.
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<p>This format is <a href="qm.html">documented in the original QM conventions</a> page.
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<div class="onright">
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<figure>
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<a href="cavedescription.html">
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<img src="../t/svx-cave-descript.jpg"></a>
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<figcaption style="font-variant-caps: small-caps;">
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<em>Cave description in survex file (click for more)</em>
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</figcaption>
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</figure>
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</div>
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<h4>Cave Descriptions</h4>
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<p>The description of the passage is written in the same way as you write QMs, but as free text without
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formatting. See the single line at the bottom of the figure below and
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in more detail on the <a href="cavedescription.html">Cave Description"</a> handbook page.
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<h4 id="example">Full QMs example</h4>
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<p>
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The example below demonstrates correct and effective use of the QM list referring back to earlier elements in the svx file:
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The example below demonstrates correct and effective use of the QM list referring back to earlier elements in the svx file.
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Cave descriptions are done in a similar way, see the <a href="cavedescription.html">Cave Description"</a> handbook page.
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<p>
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<img src="wob-svx-edit-pic3.jpg" width=900>
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<p>
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<h3>Conclusion</h3>
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<p>Survey data recorded in .svx files is incomplete if there is no QM List data and
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cave description data!
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<p>Return to "<a href="newsurvex.html">Survey handbook - survex format</a>".</p>
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<hr />
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<p>Return to "<a href="newsurvex.html">Survey handbook - survex format</a>".</p>
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