[therion] Re: survex to therion conversion script
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Wookey wrote: >> +++ Stacho Mudrak [05-01-12 09:49 +0100]: > >>> > >>> > So I suggest to add new command: >>> > >>> > input-centreline >>> > >>> > It will add survey stations and shots from given (.3d, later may be >>> > compass, toporobot, vtopo etc.) file to current survey. This should not >>> > be too much work. >>> > >>> > Any comments? > >> >> _Now_ he tells me :-) This sounds very sensible and would nicely decouple the survex and therion files/data. -- Simeon
[therion] Re: survex to therion conversion script
Stacho Mudrak wrote: > > Great idea, Olly! It certainly is. I've been wondering about the problems of keeping two datasets up to date. If the conversion from svx to .th requires any manual editing and is beyond scripting in a Makefile then keeping edits and fixes in sync would become a huge pain. > So I suggest to add new command: > > input-centreline > > It will add survey stations and shots from given (.3d, later may be compass, > toporobot, vtopo etc.) file to current survey. This should not be too much > work. > > Any comments? When you say 'current survey' I'm assuming that this would account for putting dotted station names into subsurveys. I'd need to process a whole survey hierarchy at once to benefit from the loop closing in cavern. Cheers, John
[therion] Re: survex to therion conversion script
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 09:49:24AM +0100, Stacho Mudrak wrote: >> This is probably ideal solution also for people, that are starting with >> therion and have their centerline data in different package. If this >> will be possible, they will not need to convert their dataset to therion >> format. And reading of .3d file (or any other with processed data, .plt >> for example) is usually trivial. The hardest part of reading the file formats is pinning them down. Larry Fish was very helpful in resolving minor ambiguities in the Compass file format descriptions, which was very useful when writing the Survex support for Compass formats. Without a precise spec or a lot of sample data from a range of sources, you're likely to end up handling just a subset of the format. But generally it's going to be easier for processed data formats than unprocessed data formats as they're written by machines, so the format-as-defined-by-use has a lot less variation, even if you don't have a formal specification. >> So I suggest to add new command: >> >> input-centreline >> >> It will add survey stations and shots from given (.3d, later may be >> compass, toporobot, vtopo etc.) file to current survey. This should not >> be too much work. You get compass "for free" with the Survex "img" library - it transparently reads .plt files (and processed CMAP files). Cheers, Olly
