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<h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook -  New Cave</h2>
<h1>Creating a new cave in the online system</h1>

<h2>Great, I have discovered a new cave...</h2>
<p>So, you have staggered off the plateau with a fist-full of notes and surveys, 
and you want to let the world know of your massive discovery.
<ul>
<li>If you have not yet learned how to record your prospecting and survey 
your leads, read the
<ul>
<li><a href="../look4.htm">prospecting introduction</a> and
<li><a href="../survey/index.htm">survey handbook</a> which tells you how to record 
survey information in your waterproof notebook. But first you should read the
<li><a href="/expofiles/presentations/cave_surveying_20130626.pdf">
Cave Surveying training course slidepack</a>.
</ul>
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This page outlines step 1 of the survey production process. Each step is documented separately.<br />
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<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>
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<h2>Process</h2>
<p>After 40 years or so, we have a well-defined process which you will need to learn. 
Read <em>all</em> this list first, then follow 
the instructions section by section which tell you how to
actually do these things.

<ul>
<li>Write up your trip in the <a href="../logbooks.html">logbook</a> including rigging sketches<br /><br />
<li>Put notes in a new wallet, and fill the label on the wallet.
  <li>If it is a new cave, fill out a paper <a href="/handbook/l/new-cave-form.html">New Cave Data sheet</a>
<li>Scan the notes (see <a href="newwallet.html#onlinew">"new wallet"</a> for the filenames to use and <a href="newwallet.html#scan">how to use the scanner</a>)
  <li>Type in survey data (in <a href="newsurvex.html#rightplace">the right place</a> in the file system) in survex format.<br />
(This includes passage descriptions and open leads known as QMs: Question Marks).
<li>Run survex to create a centre-line printout (online in a browser or on your computer)
<li>Transcribe your sketches onto centre-line paper
<li>Scan your centre-lined sketches
<li>Use therion or tunnel to digitise your centre-line sketches
  <li>Connect your survey to the surveys of other caves by fixing the entrance location.
</ul>
<p>and either later or at the same time, you will be doing these other tasks
<ul>
<li>Upload your <a href="../computing/gpxupload.html">GPS track</a> to the cave and file photos of the entrance 
<li>Create a new folder in the file system for the wallet data (automatic when using the Upload form)
<li>Create a new folder in the file system for the survex data (automatic when using the online survex edit form)
<li>Create a "new cave entry" for the guidebook description 
<li>Write the <b>full cave description</b> into the correct html files. 
(This will mean copying the passage descriptions from the survex files.)
<li>Update the index tick boxes on paper in the wallets lever-arch file in the potato hut: as your wallet progresses through this process
<li>Update the online record of those tick boxes using the online form, e.g. for <a href="/walletedit/2022:01">wallet 2022#01</a>
<li>Check the online list of outstanding survey tasks for all the wallets for the current year: <a href="wallets/year/2022">2022</a>.
  <li><a href="/handbook/survey/athome.htm">Back in the UK</a>
</ul>
<p>This documentation assumes that you have recorded your survey data in 
  a  waterproof paper notebook. If instead you are doing paperless surveying (e.g with a phone) to record the survey readings
digitally for your first cave, don't. Use the paper process first, then when you are familiar 
the overall process, look at the <a href="pdanotes.html">digital surveying additional notes</a>.

<h3>The Process in brief</h3>
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&boxv;   &boxvr;&HorizontalLine;&HorizontalLine; How to use Tunnel - PDF - Brendan's guide
&boxv;   &boxvr;&HorizontalLine;&HorizontalLine; Guide to using Tunnel - PDF - David Loeffler's guide
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&boxv;   &boxur;&HorizontalLine;&HorizontalLine; Cave Mapping - Sketching the Detail
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&boxv;   &boxvr;&HorizontalLine;&HorizontalLine; New Cave form
&boxv;   &boxvr;&HorizontalLine;&HorizontalLine; Edit this cave
&boxv;   &boxur;&HorizontalLine;&HorizontalLine; the full list of data-entry fields
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Back in the UK</textarea></code>

<p>Now go the the next page [2] in this sequence <a href="newwallet.html">Creating a new survey wallet"</a>.
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