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<h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook - New Cave - QMs</h2>
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<h1>Adding QMs (Question Marks)</h1>
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<h2>QM data and cave descriptions</h2>
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<p>
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This document describes how to include Question Marks (QMs) and cave descriptions in .svx files.
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<p>This is the current list of <a href="/cave/qms/1623-290">QMs for 1623-290</a><br />
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These are the current <a href="qm.html">QM naming and numbering rules</a>.
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<p>There
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are dedicated fields in the template.svx file for this purpose, but there has been laxness recently on filling them in.
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It seems to be an unknown resource among too many expo-goers despite the manifold benefits.
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<h3>Why do we want to do this?</h3>
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We need to store Question Marks (QMs) and cave description data in an easy-to-use format for setting objectives and planning trips. As of the end of the 2022 expo, we have 1,374 QMs tracked in our records.
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<p>When planning an expo, it is necessary to work out where leads are in each cave before
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arriving in Austria to make effective use of time and equipment. The most readily
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accessible place for such information is in .svx files, because this is more efficient
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compared to including QMs only in survey drawings in Tunnel or writing a cave
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description then putting it on the expo website.
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<p>Survex files are a very stable place to store the data long-
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term: there is no need to rely on a 'master file' of any kind, which can be problematic if not everyone
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on expo has the same level of computer literacy, and requires just basic text entry to create and update
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the data after a trip.
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<h3>How it's done:</h3>
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<p>
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So, you've got your .svx file started (if entering new data), or located and opened (if updating a
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previously surveyed bit of cave after checking out some QMs again), and it looks a bit like this (visual
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format will change depending on your preferred text editor):
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<img src="wob-svx-edit-pic.jpg" width=900>
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If you don't understand what is in front of you here, then you need to read the <a href="newsurvex.html">survey handbook guide on svx files</a> which will lead you to the survex documentation, or ask
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someone about basic entry of survey leg and station data into the .svx file format.
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<p>
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Near to the end of the text in the file, you will see a section that looks like this:
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<p>
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<img src="wob-svx-edit-pic2.jpg" width=900>
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This is where the action is! You literally just follow the instructions in the file to create QM and cave
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description data, replacing the template text with your own as you would with the cave passage data.
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<p style="margin:4%">
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<em>Technical Note:</em> The syntax for a QM includes a leading semi-colon. So it is syntactically a "comment" so far
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as the survex software is concerned. But we have other software and scripts in the Expo online system which inderstand
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just fine that these are QMs.
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<p>
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Here is an example from the last bit of bipedalpassage.svx in 264. Note that each QM description is all on one line.
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<pre><code>;-----------
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;Question Mark List ;(leave commented-out)
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<em>;Serial number grade(A/B/C/D/X) nearest-station resolution-station description</em>
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;QM1 A bipedalpassage.1 - Very good. 50m+ (?) deep pit below start of 13 bolt bipedal traverse - rather slanted, large ongoing rift glimpsed below. very good.
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;QM2 A bipedalpassage.3 - Very good. 50m+ (?) deep pit below end of 13 bolt bipedal traverse. best approched via station 4 (?) and looks ok to rig. May connect to first deep pit.
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;QM3 C bipedalpassage.1 - Poor c lead, across thin rock bridge over abyss (!) leads to blind aven, but small tube for thin person on left.
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;QM4 A bipedalpassage.10 - Good. Ongoing big phreatic passage forms pitch dropped in Bipedal Passage4 by Ben, then continued by Mike and Elain on Aug 6th.
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;QM5 C bipedalpassage.9 - Speculative - climb up needs short 5-10m rope - could be tube in roof.
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;QM6 C bipedalpassage.31 - Very good location where main phreatic passages and enlarges - but far side of chamber choked. One part of choke was not accessed as needs 2m climb up to poke nose in it. A good free climber could do this or needs one bolt to be sure no way on. Very strong draft in choke! Interesting southerly trend at margin of known system
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</code></pre>
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<p>
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The format for question mark lists is <br>
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<ul>
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<li>QM identifier,
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<li><a href="qm.html">Quality Grade</a>,
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<li>nearest survey station, (which should be in the same survex file)
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<li>resolution survey station, initially a "-", explained in <a href="#tick">Ticking off a QM</a> below
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<li>description of QM.
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</ul>
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<p>The QM numbers themselves used to be in the format <br>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="qm.html">Discoverer identifier</a>, <li>Year of discovery, <li>Cave identifier, <li>serial number.
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</ul>
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but today, with the QMs inside the survex files, the identifiers are QM1, QM2 etc.
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<p>This format is <a href="qm.html">documented in the original QM conventions</a> page.
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<style>figure {font-weight: bold; font-size: small; font-family: sans-serif;font-variant-caps: small-caps;}</style>
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<div class="onright">
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<figure>
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<a href="cavedescription.html">
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<img src="../t/svx-cave-descript.jpg"></a>
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<figcaption style="font-variant-caps: small-caps;">
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<em>Cave description in survex file (click for more)</em>
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</figcaption>
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</figure>
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</div>
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<h3>Cave Descriptions</h3>
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<p>The description of the passage is written in the same way as you write QMs, but as free text without
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formatting. See the single line at the bottom of the figure below and
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in more detail on the <a href="cavedescription.html">Cave Description"</a> handbook page.
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<h3 id="example">Full QMs example - initial data entry</h3>
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<p>
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The example below demonstrates correct and effective use of the QM list referring back to earlier elements in the svx
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file. Cave descriptions are done in a similar way, see the <a href="cavedescription.html">Cave Description"</a>
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handbook page.
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<p>
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<img src="wob-svx-edit-pic3.jpg" width=900>
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<p>
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<p>
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If these data are not entered along with the rest of the survey data, it is as if you decided not to enter
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some of the actual passage data you surveyed: information is being lost and someone will have to
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trawl back through all the survey data at a later time to keep it up-to-date, a very tedious task which
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is a very inefficient use of time.
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<p>Also if the person reading it hasn't been to the bit of cave (which is, like, <em>the whole point</em>, then the
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data has a higher chance of being incorrect. It is not always easy to interpret Tunnel or Therion drawings correctly
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with this sort of thing.
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<h4 id="tick">Ticking off a QM</h4>
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Below is part of the current template file (square brackets must be removed as
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real content replaces template text):</p>
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<code><pre>;-----------
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;Question Mark List ;(leave commented-out)
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; The nearest-station is the name of the survey and station which are nearest to
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; the QM. The resolution-station is either '-' to indicate that the QM hasn't
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; been checked; or the name of the survey and station which push that QM. If a
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; QM doesn't go anywhere, set the resolution-station to be the same as the
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; nearest-station. Include any relevant details of how to find or push the QM in
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; the textual description.
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;Serial number grade(A/B/C/D/X) nearest-station resolution-station description
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;[ QM1 A surveyname.3 - description of QM ]
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;[ QM2 B surveyname.5 - description of QM ]
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;TICKed off QMs
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; if another later survey exists, the resolution-station
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; field is filled in, e.g.
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;[ QM2 B surveyname.5 anothersurvey.7 description of QM and description of progress ]
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; or if there is no survey, but the QM is dead then repeat the original survey station:
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;[ QM2 B surveyname.5 surveyname.5 description of QM resolution DATE and description of results ]
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</pre></code>
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<p>In 2015 we had had no generally-agreed, well-documented or widely-practiced way of recording whether a QM has been ticked-off or not.
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<p>We now do this by
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<ol>
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<li>surveying into the passage beyond the QM,
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<li>creating a new survex file for that survey,
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and then
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<li>editing the original survex file using the name of one of those new survey stations as the "resolution-station", replacing the "-" previously there.
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</ol>
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<p>If the new QM is explored but is not worth surveying (e.g. a snow-filled drop which in a later year is seen to be just a pile of snow), then edit the original survex file to repeat the same survey station as the "resolution station" and put a comment with the <em>date</em> this was done and a reference to the logbook entry or wallet.
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<!--<p>In 2022 we had a proposal (which was coded into troggle) to add an extra line to the original survex file, now that survex files can be edited
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easily on-line (and the version control happens invisibly and automatically):
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<code>
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QM<em>nn</em> TICK <em>date comment</em>
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</code>
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e.g.<code>
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QM15 TICK 2022-07-20 This is a dummy ticked QM</code>
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<p>as illustrated in
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<a href="/cave/qms/1623-258/2015-15Aflashh2">2015-15A</a>
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in <a href="/survexfile/caves-1623/258/flashhard2.svx">258/flashhard2.svx</a>. <br>
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The TICKed QM appears at the end of the report <a href="/cave/qms/1623-258">/cave/qms/1623-258</a> at the bottom of the page.</p>
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<p>The <var>date</var> field is sufficient to tie the tick-off event to one of a small number of logbook entries and survex files, which is where the actual exploration would be documented. If it was a rapid dead-end, or if later parties can't find it at all, then there should be just a logbook entry.
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-->
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<h3>Programming note</h3>
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<p>Better handling of historic QMs is a current, occasionally active, area of
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development in our online systems. The current status is <a href="../troggle/scriptsqms.html">documented here</a>.
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<h3>Conclusion</h3>
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<p>Survey data recorded in .svx files is incomplete if there is no QM List data and
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cave description data!
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<hr />
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<p>Return to "<a href="newsurvex.html">Survey handbook - survex format</a>".</p></body>
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