<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>CUCC Expedition Handbook: Entrance data entry</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../css/main2.css" /> </head> <body> <body> <h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook - New Entrance data</h2> <h1>Creating a new entrance in the online system</h1> <h2>Great, I have discovered a new cave...</h2> <p>If you have not come to this page from the sequence starting at <a href="newcave.html">Starting a New Cave"</a> then go and read that first. <div style="width:100%;height:50px;background:#C8E1E2" align="center"> This page outlines step 7 of the survey production process. Each step is documented separately.<br /> <!-- Yes we need some proper context-marking here, breadcrumb trails or something. Maybe a colour scheme for just this sequence of pages --> <a href="newcave.html">1</a> - <a href="newwallet.html">2</a> - <a href="newsurvex.html">3</a> - <a href="drawup.htm">4</a> - <a href="newrig.html">5</a> - <a href="caveentry.html">6</a> - <a href="ententry.html">7</a> - <a href="cavedescription.html">8</a> </div> <h2>Process</h2> <p> This page follows directly on from creating a new cave. If you haven't read thos pages, please go back and do so.</p> </p> <h3>Two ways of creating a new entrance in the online system</h3> <ul> <li>Filling in the online form</li> <li>Editing a file and uploading it</li> </ul> <p>exactly analogously to creating a new cave.</p> <h2>Recommended procedure</h2> <p> As with a cave, you will find the process a lot easier to follow if you Edit an existing entrance first. </p> <h3>Edit Entrance form</h3> <p>New in 2021 are fields for the latitude and logitude (WGS84 - the same as your GPS displays). These should be entered in degrees with decimals for fractions of a degree, e.g. 42.357 (not 42 degress 21 minutes 25 seconds, or 42 degrees 21.42 minutes). <p>In previous decades the location of an entrance was the <em>output</em> of a whole lot of surveying and position fixing (e.g. see <a href="lasers.htm">laser points</a>). Today, the location of an entrance is available by GPS at the <em>beginning</em> of the process. So we have these fields to record the data. [We don't yet have the code to automatically add these to the <var>essentials.gpx</var> download to be used for prospecting though.] <h2>List of New Entrance/Entrance_data fields</h2> <p>The full list of fields is documented: <a href="ententryfields.html">the full list of data-entry fields</a> when creating an entrance. <hr /> <p>Back to the previous page in this sequence <a href="newrig.html">New rigging guide</a>. <br />A side trip to see how to do this as a file upload process using git, the <a href="newcavefile.html">cave description data file</a> <br />Now go the the next page in this sequence <a href="cavedescription.html">Write the full cave descriptions with diagrams</a>. <hr /> </body> <html>