+++ Bill Gee [2015-09-14 19:48 -0500]: > When you are drawing the sketch in the cave, is it normal to ALWAYS make north > the same direction on each sheet of paper?
No - whatever fits on the paper best is generally best (although if surveying in one rarely knows how that will go unless you have a very joint-controlled cave). In practice I do almost always put North up (and 'up' up on elevations) as I don't know which way the cave is going to go for more than a couple of legs. > What is considered "best practice" in this regard? Always marking 'N' and 'up' on the sketches so it's obvious. > The man who is coordinating the project is also doing cartography using > Windows > tools (Walls, Xara, etc.) He sent me an email today asking if I will commit to > making all future sketches with north being the top of the page. He asks > because some of the computer work he does results in portions of the sketch > being upside-down and therefore more difficult to read. That is probably true with most drawing tools, including xtherion (which doesn't have a way of rotating the view to more easily read the writing, for example (SFAICS)). Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/
