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[Wookey]

On Mon 05 Nov, Jerome Alet wrote:
> I wanted to try survex to see how it would fit for archaeological datas.
> Is anyone using survex in archaeology ?

Most archaeologists want better detail data than cave-sruvey programs like
survex produce, although you could use it to produce a very detailed
positional survey with some effort.

I know Andrew Chamberlain in the UK has done a lot of work on cave
archaeology - you can see his stat-of the art visualisations in a draft
article at:
 http://lancelot.bms.ed.ac.uk/~wis/cave_visualisation/

This doesn't use Survex, but you can do stuff similar to this using Tunnel
(one of the related tools), although right now we've broken the compatibility
between the two unfortunately.

Not sure if that helps much.

Do please tell us what features archaeolgists need in their cave survey
software and we'll try and bear this in mind for 'Survex 2.0' on which work
starts shortly. If you want do contribute that would be great.

Wookey
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