I'm just now catching up on Cavetex, but I'm happy to see there are plans for another Mapping Workshop. I found the walk-throughs, especially for drafting new maps, extremely useful and informative. In addition, it was a lot of fun! Thanks to everyone for taking the time out to do this.
I definitely encourage people to attend the next one. Cheers, Karen Ron - I forgot the all important "reply to all" button, so you'll have two of these. I apologize for the spam! On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Ron Ralph <[email protected]> wrote: > Cavers,**** > > ** ** > > The workshop at the Texas Speleological Survey office was a success and > will be repeated hopefully this next spring. Below is a report produced by > instructor Leslie Bell.**** > > **** > > The TSS Survey Mapping Workshop was held on Saturday, September 24, 2011 > from 10:30AM to 5:30PM. **** > > Jim Kennedy and Leslie Bell taught the workshop, and Rod Goke and > Christopher Francke helped with the setup and IT support. The digital > projector used during the workshop was provided by Jim Kennedy. **** > > **** > > The workshop had three attendees: **** > > Rick Corbell from San Antonio, TX **** > > Gary Franklin from Austin, TX **** > > Karen Masters from Austin, TX **** > > **** > > The first half of the workshop covered scanning paper maps and taking them > into GIMP to clean up the scanned maps. GIMP is a free software raster > graphics editor. Corresponding actions in Adobe Photoshop (a popular but > more expensive raster graphics editor) were also shown to the attendees. As > all of the TSS computers have been set up with GIMP, each of the three > attendees used the information given to them to clean up scanned Williamson > County maps. **** > > The workshop then broke for lunch at Pho Hoang. **** > > The second half of the workshop covered entering survey data into WALLS, > exporting a line plot from WALLS and then taking that line plot and creating > an official profile or plan map using Inkscape, a free software vector > graphics editor. **** > > **** > > Although there were only a few attendees, each of those attendees did get > to learn valuable information that they can use in the future and will now > have the tools in their arsenal to draft their own maps and submit them to > the TSS. Jim Kennedy and Leslie Bell both agree the workshop was a general > success and would like to see more workshops in the future. **** > > **** > > Although there were no donations given, attendees did pay for their own > lunches at Pho Hoang. **** > > **** > > Tutorials for GIMP and WALLS were drafted for the workshop and future > workshops will be able to include and build on these tutorials. **** >
