If you have not come to this page from the sequence starting at Starting a New Cave" then go and read that first.
[This has been described in several places and we are in the process of consolidating the documentation and getting rid of out of date notes.]
The survey data typed up must include all the notes, including station details and passage names. Make a backup copy to another machine or USB stick as soon as you have typed it in. New users will be using the expo laptop to create the .svx file and you will put it in the folder
/home/expo/loser/caves-1623/264/mongolrally.svxand tell someone nerdy when you have finished and they will ensure that it is saved, committed, and pushed appropriately.
If you have several parts of the cave surveyed on one trip, create several distinct .svx files.
Once you have created the .svx file you will run survex to generate a centre line, transcribe your sketches onto that paper, scan it again and then digitise into tunnel or therion.
[Nerds: survex cave data belongs in the repository "loser", e.g. loser "caves-1623/264/mongolrally.svx". We are assuming that normal users have never worked with an distributed version control system at this point which is why we are only telling them to use the expo laptop.]
QMs are the unexplored leads, they are Question Marks because we don't know where they go to. There is a specific format for recording them in survex files.
Read this separate description about entering the QM data into a survex file.
The last part of the survex file is a description of the passage surveyed. Remember
that this is intended to be read by people
who have not been to that bit of the cave themselves
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[from couldashouldawoulda_to_bathdodgersbypass.svx]
;Cave description ;(leave commented-out)
; See 2017 description for details of GSH up to the 'p50'.
Briefly, on the way to couldashouldawoulda a 22 m entrance crawl from the
surface leads to a climb down and a junction. Left leads to easy c
rawling passage for a short distance, then another junction where
traversing over a shallow hole and down a stooping-height sandy
passage to a sharp left turn and a sandy, easy 'squeeze' leading to a
straighforward p10.
Note that the description is often written as one long line. Use the word-wrap capability in your editor to make it easier for yourself.
Back to the previous page in this sequence
Creating a new survey wallet.
Now go the the next page in this sequence Drawing up your survey.