Survex Suggestion

[Olly Betts]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 09:13:42AM +0000, Rob Eavis wrote:
> Not sure if you prefer suggestions somewhere else, but I only had your
> email....

It's generally a good idea to open a ticket at http://trac.survex.com/
as then there's a ticket in the list and things can't get forgotten
about.

> comments associated with stations that are viewable in Aven would be a
> valuable tool. Currently we simply ; out any extra detail in the .svx
> file, but we only really ever share the .3d files which lose this
> data. We envisaged a "comments" button on Aven, where if selected all
> stations that had a comment associated with them may be highlighted.
> Then by rolling over or clicking that station the comment could be
> displayed somewhere.
> 
> This function would be very helpful for future surveying teams to
> identify the nature of each station (cairn, bolt, etc), but could also
> be used to include cave features to help future explorers ("large
> outward draught", "easy dig", etc) especially in those complex cave
> systems with +100,000s stations.
> 
> I see in the "to do" list there is a "leg and station comments"
> section, so I suppose our additional proposal is only to build on this
> with aven to allow for the .3d capture and usage of that data.

Yeah, the idea is that the comments would be carried through and be
viewable in aven.

Cheers,
    Olly