Units on fix

[Andrew Atkinson]

Olly Betts wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 03:54:15PM +0100, Andrew Atkinson wrote:
>> I have some data from a cave which has the calculated position  of each 
>> station.
>> I believe the easiest way is to fix all the points and use no survey to 
>> join them all up. Any comments?
> 
> That's often easiest.  You can add "*data nosurvey" legs to join
> stations - these have no measurements and just take up the length
> and orientation required to join the stations they connect.
> 
>> P1	586.5	79.4	565.6
>>
>> The data looks like the above the units for the grid are in metres with 
>> the 52 000 missed off x and 36000 off y, as we intend to add other caves 
>> outside the one km square is there anyway to add the 52000 to all x and 
>> 36000 to all y. Also to make it really inconvenient the height is in 
>> feet. Is there anyway I can tell survex that the units of z are in feet
> 
> Neither of these is possible currently (as the numbers are coordinates
> in the implicit grid in metres), but both probably should be - if these
> coordinates were handled like other quantities, then you could specify
> units and a zero offset.
> 

I take it that you mean it is on the todo list

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Andrew