Export formats

[Martin Sluka]

Phil,

 when inclination, where are all methods used by cavedivers?

Regards

Martin


> 21. 6. 2016 v 12:22, Martin Sluka <martinsluka at mac.com>:
> 
> 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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