electronic topo data

handbook/survey/newwallet.html

@@ -100,17 +100,23 @@ too, with pre-allocated numbers.
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-<h3>The original notes</h3>
+<h3>The original notes and data</h3>
-<p>The original notes and sketches should be filed in the clearly marked
+<p>The original paper notes and sketches should be filed in the clearly marked
 wallet. Rip them out of the notebook, don't take them caving again and <em>don't leave them lying around to
 be "G&ouml;ssered"!</em></p>
 
+
+
+<h4>Electronic survey data</h4>
+The same logic applies. Read the rest of these instructions from this point on as they do still apply to you. 
+More detailed electronic data archive instructions are <a href="#topo">lower down on this page</a>.
+
+<h4>Paper notes</h4>
 <p>The notes (all of them, including dates, personnel, calibration, LRUD,
 station details, etc.) should be filed away in the wallet in the current year's
 surveys file. You should include a transcription on a sheet of paper if they are illegible
 (to other people; if you can't read them yourself, go back and do the survey
 again!). Even if you do this, never throw away the original notes.</p>
-
 <!-- Original text: ...copied onto a fresh page of the Survey Book
 while everyone's memory is still fresh (this helps if something is only
 marginally legible). This should be proof checked by someone else. Current
@@ -263,12 +269,27 @@ Please <em>only copy files to the server that you created yourself and which liv
 <a href="../computing/basiclaptop.html">minimal laptop setup</a>
 - as <a href="../computing/uploading.html">documented for complex uploading your expo photographs</a>. 
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-<h3 id="runsurvex">Storing your electronic survey .topo files</h3>
-<p>If you used a PDA instead of making notes on paper, you need to store your .topo files. 
-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. 
-See the <a href="pdanotes.html">PDA specific instructions</a>
 
-<p>If you are using the expo laptop just upload the .topo files using the <a href="/walletedit/2022:01">Upload Scans</a> form and also copy them to an ordinary <em>online</em> wallet 
+<h3 id="topo">Storing your electronic survey .topo files</h3>
+<p>If you used a survey device, phone or PDA instead of making notes on paper, you need to store your .topo files, or whatever other format you have. 
+Put them in exactly the same place as a scanned survey sketch would go, but <em>also</em> write a paper note and put it in the plastic wallet in the 
+potato hut to prevent someone re-using that wallet number. 
+<p>As well as the native format <var>.swc</var> files produced by your Supa-Wunda Caving device, 
+<em>also</em> export the data into as many different 'standard' formats as possible, 
+zip them up into a file, and upload that too using the Upload Scans online form. 
+In 10 years (or less) when all that is left of Supa-Wunda Inc. is a dusty foootnote to the pages of history 
+(or more likely a muddy brown smear on the pages of history) 
+we want to be able to read the data using whatever software we have available then.
+
+<p>Note: some devices can export a survex file. This direct-export should be treated as raw data and should go into the wallet system (Upload Scans). 
+But you will also need to make an edited version of that survex data - complete with correct *ref, *team, ;QM and cave description text and upload that 
+to the survex file system.
+
+<p>
+See the <a href="pdanotes.html">Survey Device specific instructions</a> for the different 
+sorts of devices we use and how to store the data of each format.
+
+<p>If you are using the expo laptop, upload the .topo files using the <a href="/walletedit/2022:01">Upload Scans</a> form and also copy them to an ordinary <em>online</em> wallet 
 wallet, as there is no physical wallet, 
 e.g. for 2018#16 it would be:
 <pre>