Export formats

Martin Sluka martinsluka at mac.com
Tue Jun 21 11:22:18 BST 2016


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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