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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>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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<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):<br />
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<b>V</b> — An aven which might be climbable, but not adequately assessed (use C or X instead, with comment)<br />
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<b>?</b> — Unknown - origin lost in history.<br />
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<b>!</b> — may not exist, or may be multiple - guess from sketches<br />
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<b>*</b> — allegedly pushed, but needs another look or survey<br />
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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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<h3>QM identifier formats </h3>
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<p>The format for question mark identifiers has changed over the years. We used to renumber all the QMs after expo, so a simple 200x-QMnn was unique. At some point, before 2015 when we started putting the QMs in survex files, the QM numbering was done per-cave rather than per-Expo.<br/>
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e.g. <b>C1992-161-08</b> » the 8th QM in 1988 in cave 1623-161. Discovered by Expo: ("C")
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e.g. <b>234-2004-24B</b> » the 24th QM in 2004 in cave 1623-234, grade B.
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<p>
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Currently we use the survex block name, the name of the *begin/*end section, as the thing to make QMs unique. We also show the year, the cave and the grade in all visible identifiers though these are not required for uniqueness.
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A separate sequence of identifier numbers is used for each survex<em>file</em>: <br/>
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e.g. <b>290-2018-1Ccoconu3</b> » The 1st QM, grade C, in survex-block 'coconutchamber3'<br/> which was surveyed in 2018 in cave 1623-290
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<h4>Archaic: Last-century's notes about QMs in 161</h4>
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If you look at <a href="/1623/161/lhr.htm">the html</a> [the cave description page], you will find mentions,
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e.g. <a href="/1623/161/lhr.htm#qC1992-161-08">C1992-161-08</a> of QMs in the context of the passage description with a link to <a href="/1623/161/qmtodo.htm#C1992-161-08">the 161 QM list page</a>. A link to 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) [see
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<a href="../troggle/scriptsqms.html">QM scripts</a>], 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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<h3>Discoverer identifiers</h3>
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<p>In past years, we used to put a prefix on the QM identifier as 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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Go to <a href="qmentry.html">Adding QMs to survex</a></body>
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