Survex for scuba dive surveys

[Footleg]

I have been using the *team flag, but this email thread made me aware that
I could specify 'surveyor' for cases where it was not recorded who did
what. But then I just found that I can type any rubbish after *team and
survex is happy with it. Is that intended?

e.g. This processes fine:
*team complained "J. Smith"

Footleg

On 13 April 2015 at 13:45, Jarvist Moore Frost <jarvist at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there any sort of style reference for Survex files?
> Or of these particular items of meta data? Does '*team' actually get used
> anywhere in Aven / the exports?
>
> I wasn't aware of the *team flag, nor that Survex can do date-dependent
> declination, I have always calculated it for the year with one of the NOAA
> models, and then used it for all data included thereafter, like:
>
> https://github.com/jarvist/migovecsurveydata/blob/master/migovecsurveydata/garden/garden-low/s_garden-low.svx
>
> I almost wonder if some kind of way of inlining Markdown / Re-Structured
> text into a 'notes' section might be useful as a way of associating that
> information with the files in a more useful + accessible way.
>
> I've found on expeditions that getting cavers to use a pre-generated
> TEMPLATE file has certainly improved the average quality of data. It's much
> easier to expect people to work with an example, than read and consider all
> flags specified.
>
>
> https://github.com/jarvist/migovecsurveydata/blob/master/migovecsurveydata/TEMPLATE.svx
>
> And a randomly selected example:
>
> https://github.com/jarvist/migovecsurveydata/blob/master/migovecsurveydata/garden/garden-low/consort/consort.svx
>
> Does anyone have anything similar, or suggestions for improvements?
>
> Best,
>
> Jarv
>
> On 13 April 2015 at 12:40, Wookey <wookey at wookware.org> wrote:
>
> > And just a comment on the example you were sent, to avoid starting
> > with bad habits: You should use *date, *team, *title rather than just
> > comments to describe survey metadata
> >
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