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<h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook - New Cave</h2>
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<h1>Creating a new cave in the online system</h1>
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<h2>Great, I have discovered a new cave...</h2>
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<p>So, you have staggered off the plateau with a fist-full of notes and surveys,
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and you want to let the world know of your massive discovery.
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<ul>
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<li>If you have not yet learned how to record your prospecting and survey
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your leads, read the <a href="../look4.htm">prospecting introduction</a> and
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<a href="../survey/index.htm">survey handbook</a> which tells you how to record
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survey information in your waterproof notebook. But first you should read the
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<a href="/expofiles/presentations/cave_surveying_20130626.pdf">
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Cave Surveying training course slidepack</a>.
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<li>This page outlines the rest of the process. Each part of it is documented separately.
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</ul>
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<h2>Process</h2>
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<p>After 40 years or so, we have a well-defined process which you will need to learn.
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Read <em>all</em> this list first, then follow
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the instructions section by section which tell you how to
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actually do these things.
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<li>Write up your trip in the <a href="../logbooks.html">logbook</a><br><br>
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<li>Put notes in a new wallet
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<li>Scan the notes (see <a href="#onlinew">below</a> for the filenames to use and <a href="#scan">how to use the scanner</a>)
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<li>Type in survey data (in the right place in the file system) in <a href="#survexformat">survex format</a>.<br>
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(This includes passage descriptions and open leads known as QMs: Question Marks).
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<li>Run survex to create a centre-line printout
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<li>Transcribe your sketches onto centre-line paper
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<li>Scan your centre-lined sketches
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<li>Use tunnel to digitise your centre-line sketches
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</ul>
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<p>and either later or at the same time, you will be doing these other tasks
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<li>Create a new folder in the file system for the wallet data
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<li>Create a new folder in the file system for the survex data
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<li>Create a "new cave entry" for the guidebook description
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<li>Write the <b>full cave description</b> into the correct html files. <br>
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(This will mean copying the passage descriptions from the survex files.)
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<li>Update the index tick boxes on paper: as your wallet progresses through this process
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<li>Update the online record of those tick boxes
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<li>Regenerate the <a href="http://expo.survex.com/expofiles/surveyscans/2018/">list of outstanding survey tasks</a> for everyone
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</ul>
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<p>This documentation assumes that you have recorded your survey data in
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a waterproof paper notebook. If instead you are using a PDA to record the survey readings
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digitally for your first cave, don't. Use the paper process first, then when you are familiar
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the overall process, look at the <a href="pdanotes.html">PDA additional notes</a>.
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<h3 id="newwallet">Starting a new wallet</h3>
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<ol>
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<li>Put all your written notes into the next empty "wallet":
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(a transparent folder/envelope) in this year's lever-arch file labelled
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e.g. "Expo Survey 2018" in the potato hut*.
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<li>The wallet has a paper sticky label on it with the wallet-identifier,
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e.g. <b>2018#22</b>, already printed on the label.
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<li>Write the date and the names of the people on the trip on the label.
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<li>Tick whether your trip was a surface or a cave trip.
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<li>Write the name of the cave (with number if you know it), e.g. "264 Balkon"
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<li>Write the area in the cave you did your surveying, e.g. "mongol rally"<br>
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<li>Now turn to the index sheets at the front of the folder,
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and fill in the line (e.g. 2018#22) for your wallet
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<ul>
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<li>"264 mongol rally"
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<li>date of trip
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<li>people who were on it
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<li>then there are a lot of tick boxes. The explanations for these will come later.
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</ul>
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<p align=center>
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<a href="2017-wallet-coverlist.jpg" border=1><img src="2017-wallet-coverlist.jpg" width=50%></a>
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<br>
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<em>Image of wallet index sheet - click for larger image</em>
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</p>
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<li>Now, if you have not done it immediately after you left the cave,
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photograph all the pages of survey notes with your phone.
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Get one or more of the people also on the trip to do this too.
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</ol>
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<p>* As people spend longer and longer at top camp, we may establish
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a wallet file at top camp
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too, with pre-allocated numbers.
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<p>The original notes and sketches should be filed in the clearly marked
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wallet. Rip them out of the notebook, don't take them caving again and <em>don't leave them lying around to
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be "Gössered"!</em></p>
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<p>The notes (all of them, including dates, personnel, calibration, LRUD,
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station details, etc.) should be filed away in the wallet in the current year's
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surveys file. You should include a transcription on a sheet of paper if they are illegible
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(to other people; if you can't read them yourself, go back and do the survey
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again!). Even if you do this, never throw away the original notes.</p>
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<!-- Original text: ...copied onto a fresh page of the Survey Book
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while everyone's memory is still fresh (this helps if something is only
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marginally legible). This should be proof checked by someone else. Current
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survey books are divided into "Kaninchenhöhle" (usually referred to as
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"KH Survey book") and "surface stuff and other caves" (usually referred to as
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"notKH survey book"). There should be an index page at the front, which you
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should also fill in so that people can find your survey again.</p>-->
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<h3 id="onlinew">Scan the notes into the online wallet</h3>
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<p>Each wallet has a corresponding folder in the online system where a record is kept
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of what information is in the wallet and where the corresponding survey data is filed:
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<pre>
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/expofiles/surveyscans/2018/2018#22/
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</pre>
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<p>This is where the scanned (or photographed) copies of the survey notes are kept.
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<p id="scan">To use the scanner attached to the <em>expo laptop</em>, select the "Simple Scan"
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icon from the vertical menu of icons which you get by clicking on
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"Activities" in the top lefthand corner of the screen.
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<p style="margin-left:20px">[ Normal people should skip this, <br>
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but nerds need to look here
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for the <a href="onlinewallet.html">online wallet maintenance process</a> ].
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<p>If your initial backup photos of your notes were poor quality, use the
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scanner in the potato hut to make better copies. Scan to JPEG format as .jpg files.
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<p>Name the scanned pages "<em>notes-1.jpg</em>, or perferably <em>notes-cavepassagename.jpg</em>" etc. This is important as a script detects whether these files exist
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(with names beginning "notes.." and "elev..") and if you name them something else it will hassle you unnecessarily.
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<p>[ 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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<p>Scanned survey notes are voluminous and so are not kept in the version control system. Instead it is all kept
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in the file bucket "expofiles" on the expo server in Cambridge.
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<p>You will be using the expo laptop to do the scanning
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and you will put all the scan files in the folder for your wallet, e.g. for 2018#19 it is:
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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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and tell someone nerdy when you have finished and they will
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ensure that it is copied to the expo server.
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[ If you want to do this yourself, or are using your own laptop, then learn how to use Filezilla
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- as <a href="../uploading.html">documented for uploading your expo photographs</a>. The correct folder
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on the expo server is the same as that on the expo laptop- because we set up the expo laptop to be like that.
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But <em>only copy files to the server that you created yourself and which live in your own wallet folder</em> ]
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<h3 id="runsurvex">Storing your electronic survey 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 in the right place.
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<p>If you using the expo laptop you can put the .topo files in a special "X" folder for your virtual
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wallet, as there is no physical wallet,
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e.g. for 2018#X16 it would be:
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<pre>
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/home/expo/expofiles/surveyscans/2018/2018#X16/
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</pre>
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and tell someone nerdy when you have finished and they will
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ensure that it is copied from the <em>expo laptop</em> to the expo server.
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<p>[ If all else fails, use the "Upload your photos" documented process and store
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the .topo files where you would have stored your .jpg photo files. Otherwise you can email all the .topo files
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to a friendly nerd who will put them in the right place. ]
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<p><em>to be further documented - probably in a separate page</em>
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<h3 id="survexformat">Typing in the survey data in survex format</h3>
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<p>[This has been described in several places and we are in the process of consolidating
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the documentation and getting rid of out of date notes.]
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<p>The survey data typed up must include all the notes, including station details and passage
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names. Make a backup copy to another machine or USB stick as soon as you have typed it in.
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New users will be using the expo laptop to create the .svx file and
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you will put it in the folder
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<pre>
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/home/expo/loser/caves-1623/264/mongolrally.svx
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</pre>
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and tell someone nerdy when you have finished and they will
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ensure that it is <em>saved, committed, </em>and<em> pushed</em> appropriately.
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<p>If you have several parts of the cave surveyed on one trip, create several distinct .svx files.
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<ul>
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<li><a href="how_to_make_a_survex_file.pdf">How to make a survex file</a> - PDF
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<li><a href="getin.htm">From muddy book to survex plot</a> - the survex file format (to be revised)
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<li><a href="https://survex.com/docs/manual/svxhowto.htm">Contents of .svx files</a> - How do I? [docm.]
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<li><a href="https://survex.com/docs/manual/genhowto.htm">How do I Create a new survey</a> - example with several surveys joined [docm.]
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<li><a href="https://survex.com/docs/manual/datafile.htm">Survex data files</a> - all the sections and keywords explained [docm.]
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</ul>
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<p>Once you have created the .svx file yo will rn survex to generate a centre line, transcribe your sketches onto that paper, scan it again and then digitise into tunnel or therion.
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<ul>
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<li><a href="drawup.htm">Drawing up your survey</a> - incomplete and a bit out of date
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<li><a href="athome.htm">Back in the UK</a> - not really part of the process
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<li><a href="/expofiles/presentations/cave_surveying_20130626.pdf">Cave Surveying - training course slidepack</a>
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</ul>
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<p>[Nerds: survex cave data belongs in the repository "loser", e.g.
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loser "caves-1623/264/mongolrally.svx". We are assuming that normal users have never
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worked with an distributed version control system at this point whcih is why we are only
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telling them to use the <em>expo laptop</em>.]
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<h3 id="runsurvex">Running survex to create a centre-line</h3>
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<p><em>to be documented</em>
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<h3>Transcribing and re-scanning your sketches</h3>
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<p><em>to be documented</em> See <a href="drawup.htm">drawing up the sketches</a>.
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<p>The files of your scanned and re-scanned sketches should be stored in the same folder
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as the scanned notes, i.e. (for wallet #19) you would put them in:
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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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<h3>Using tunnel (or therion) for final survey production</h3>
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<p><em>to be documented</em>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="/expofiles/tunnelwiki/wiki/pages/Tunnel.html">Tunnel tutorial</a> - a wiki of examples and tutorials
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</ul>
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<p>Tunnel only produces plan surveys, but they are very pretty.
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<p>The tunnel (or therion) files should NOT stored in the same folder as the scanned notes. They should
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be uploaded to the version control repository //tunneldata//.
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<h3>Interim rigging guide</h3>
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<p>The logbook is the place where we record the rigging of caves as we discover them.
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<p>When a cave is derigged,
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a good way of getting the rope lengths for your rigging guide is to
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leave the knots in ropes removed so they can
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be <b>measured</b>, but these days our caves are a bit deep
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and complicated for this to be feasible.
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Although a good survey and details of the belays
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can be used to estimate the length of rope needed, this is no substitute for
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measuring how much rope it actually took to rig.</p>
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<h3>Guidebook description and final rigging guide</h3>
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<p>This is the last thing to do - typically after all exploration has been finished for the summer.
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The rigging guide sections will have been written into the logbook, and the passage descriptions will
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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><em>to be documented</em>
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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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<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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when this makes left/right/ahead clearer. If your passage is a connection
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it is worth while writing descriptions from both directions.
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<p>In
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written descriptions, underline passage names the first time they are
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mentioned, or when they are "defined".</p>
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<p>
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You will type this description, and pass it on to someone more nerdy who
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will file it in the right place. This will involve "creating a new cave" using the <a href="../troggle-ish.html">troggle</a> system.
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<p><em>to be documented</em>
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<p>Complementing the passage description in vertical bits is a <b>Rigging
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Guide</b>. This is usually easiest to do as a sketch, but include notes to
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ensure that all bolts can be found again and any deviations and natural belays recognised.
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<p><em>to be completed</em>
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<hr />
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<ul id="links">
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<li><a href="../index.htm">Expedition Handbook</a>
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<li><a href="index.htm">Survey Handbook</a>
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