Export formats

[Martin Sluka]

Hi Phil,

for length units should be „cm" too.

Read Survex specification and copy it when possible, please. It is till now the best analysis of cave surveying problem.

Regards

Martin


> 13. 6. 2016 v 19:07, Philip Schuchardt <vpicaver at gmail.com>:
> 
> I have to through this out there. Andy Edwards and I are working on a new
> cave data format called Metacave:
> 
> https://github.com/jedwards1211/metacave
> 
> Olly, you might be interested in it.
> 
> Phi|ip
> 
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Wookey <wookey at wookware.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 2016-06-13 02:41 +0000, Erin Lynch wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I most frequently use export to SVG and KML export. KML would be greatly
>> enhanced with the option to include passage walls,
>>> The export format I would find most useful is ESRI shapefile. I've spent
>> a lot of time converting data from survex to compass just so I can use the
>> export to shapefile option in compass. The lack of a shapefile export is a
>> barrier to wider adoption of survex.
>> 
>> That's a good point. Better tools for GIS interworking in general
>> should be a consideration. Shapefile is a horrible format (have you
>> read the spec? (presumably due to decades of baggage)) but it is
>> well-documented and open, and shapelib exists for reading/writing it
>> (and is packaged in debian) which hopefully hides the ugliness.
>> 
>> When I used qgis it seemed like a good thing would be if survex
>> provided some way to serve cave data as OWS/WCS/WFS/WMS layers. I
>> don't know what the best way to implement this is. Maybe servers exist
>> already and we just need to export vectors or rasters in suitable
>> ways.
>> 
>> Wookey
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