You are right, Bruce. This is good example. But in fact there were 3 or better 4 surveying trips in this surveying trip. I such case it is natural to divide one day survey trip to particulate surveys. ;)
m. On Jun 15, 2012, at 09:57 AM, Bruce <bruce at tomo.co.nz> wrote: <Martin wrote >The original idea of Therion is that "survey" represents one survey trip. ⦠>So it is not the best idea to manipulate with surveys.  I agree Martin, one survey file, one trip. However we just did a survey of three small multi-entrance caves and overland surveys over a couple of days. In hindsight we were a bit messy in practice as we surveyed into one cave and out of another entrance and into another cave, then back out to the first cave etc etc.  What I found was that Therion could not (or I could not get Therion to) adequately resolve the statistics for the caves individually until I split some of those surveys into two or three. It also would not separate surface survey statistics from cave statistics (but I think that is a bug). Statistics are resolved correctly for maps but not for survey-list.  So as a last resort I cut the survey trips into multiple surveys/files. If I had drawn the scraps before doing this I would have had a difficult job patching it all back together. An unusual situation perhaps, but one where manipulation of the survey files was able to lay a better foundation on which to build scraps and maps.  Bruce _______________________________________________ Therion mailing list Therion at speleo.sk http://mailman.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.speleo.sk/pipermail/therion/attachments/20120615/fb562c90/attachment.html>
