{% extends "base.html" %} {% block title %}Expo survey statistics{% endblock %} {% block content %}

Expo Survey Statistics

{{ expoCount }} expeditions: {{ personCount }} people, {{ caveCount }} caves, {{ walletsCount }} wallets and {{ logbookEntryCount }} logbook entries.

Number of survey legs: {{adduplegs}}
Total length: {{adduplength}} km adding up the total for each year.

These lengths are not authoritative.

These are uncorrected tape lengths.They are uncorrected because they are lengths before any loop-closure corrections done by survex and because they include duplicated surveys. These numbers include pitches but exclude splays or surface-surveys.
Authoritative survey lengths for each cave, as explored by expo participants, are calculated using a script which

  1. uses the loop-closure corrected lengths
  2. is manually curated to exclude duplicate surveys of the same cave.
These authoritative results are maintained in an ODS-format spreadsheet.

{% for legs in legsbyexpo %} {% endfor %}
YearSurvex
Survey
Blocks
Survex
Survey
Legs
Survex
length(m)
CaversNon-caversmeters/caver
{{legs.0}} {{legs.1.nblocks}} {{legs.1.nsurvexlegs|rjust:"10"|floatformat:"0g"}} {% if legs.1.missing_length %}{% else %}{% endif %}{{legs.1.survexleglength|floatformat:"0g"}} {{legs.1.people|floatformat:"0g"}} {{legs.1.tourists|floatformat:"0g"}} {{legs.1.success|floatformat:"1g"}}

One Survex Survey Block is one *begin/*end block of data in a survex file. Different survex blocks in the same survex file can have different dates and surveyors.

Both this table and the authoritative script exclude survex files where there is no expo participant listed as a surveyor.

In the early years survex was not used and the survex files have been hand-edited from earlier survey formats. The survex files and lengths recorded need checking for the 1980s and 1990s.

The number of cavers excludes those attending who were not caving. This is something of a distortion as non-cavers may still be doing useful expo-related work such as prospecting, ferrying gear and preparing food. Non-cavers also include the bier tent and Rover Richardson, see the folk list for details. {% endblock %}