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<title>CUCC Austria Expeditions: QM list conventions</title>
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<h1>Question Mark list conventions</h1>
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<p>This page is somewhat outdated. For the current 21st century QM methods,
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where we store QMs in the survex files, see
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<ul>
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<li><a href="qmentry.html">QM data and cave descriptions</a>
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<li><a href="qmentry.html#tick">QM - ticking off</a>
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<li>Only if really keen: <a href="../troggle/scriptsqms.html">QMs - the fourfold path</a>
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<p>The format for question mark lists is QM identifier, Quality Grade, Area
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indicator, decription of QM. The QM numbers themselves are in the format
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Discoverer identifier, Year of discovery, Cave identifier, serial number.
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<p>[Archaic: If
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you look at the html, you will find that the nearest survey station (without
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its "<cavenumber>." prefix) is included in an html comment for almost all
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leads.]</p>
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<p>In general, an unpushed QM will have a link from its QM number in the
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cave description file to the HTML QM list file (generated by a perl script for caves 204, 234 and 258), and a link from the list to the relevant point in the
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description. If there is no link, it means that we can't yet work out where the
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QM is in the description, or the description doesn't yet exist :-).</p>
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<h2>Quality grades</h2>
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<p><b>A</b> - A fine QM - go down there and look.
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<p><b>B</b> - Not so promising, or requiring some effort (eg. a climb).
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<p><b>C</b> - Pretty cruddy, or good but very hard to get to.
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<p><b>D</b> - A dig only possible to continue if loose rocks or soil are removed.
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<p><b>X</b> - A high, wet or unsafe-looking aven unlikely to be climbed
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<br /><br />
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<p>And we used to have (no longer used):
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<p><b>V</b> - An aven which might be climbable, but not adequately assessed (use C or X instead, with comment)
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<p><b>?</b> - Unknown - origin lost in history.
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<p>Note that the quality grades are assigned by the explorers at the time, and
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that subsequent discoveries may mean that the grade is optimistic, since the
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lead may now drop into passage which wasn't then explored. Also, different
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explorers have different ideas, or different waist sizes - one man's "A-lead"
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may be another's "C-lead" :-(</p>
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<h2>Discoverer identifiers</h2>
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<p>In past years, we used to add into the QM identifier an indication of who discovered it. This is no longer used.
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<p><b>A</b> - ARGE.
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<p><b>B</b> - Groupe Spéléo de Clerval - Baume les Dames.
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<p><b>C</b> - Cambridge University Caving Club - Expo.
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<hr />
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Go to <a href="qmentry.html">Adding QMs to survex</a></body>
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