From 85dba41601465150112eab6fdbdaedf68c604311 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philip Sargent <philip.sargent@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2023 01:37:53 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] better text --- templates/eastings.html | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/templates/eastings.html b/templates/eastings.html index 6aa4c6d..646cba4 100644 --- a/templates/eastings.html +++ b/templates/eastings.html @@ -6,11 +6,17 @@ <h1>Entrance locations</h1> <p> -These are all the locations specified in Northing/Easting coordinates in the system. +These first two tables are all the Caves which have <em>manual</em> locations specified as Northing/Easting coordinates in their Cave Entrance Description data. +<p> This report is to help you sort out and fix the bad data in our records. You can see from the tables here that UTM data sometimes have Northings and Eastings swapped, or UTM is used when it is intended to be BMN and vice versa. +<p>All surveyed caves have entrance locations fixed by the survex data, as survey stations with names such as +1623.p277a . This is the reliable data and is shown in the third table. The reason why we have manual data is because when a +cave entrance is first discovered, it is not yet connected to the survey network. But we want to record its position +otherise we will lose it. + <p> Coordinate systems in Austria are explained in:<br> <a href="/handbook/survey/lasers.htm">Geographical fixed points on Loser</a><br>