[Expo-tech] ARGE workflow

[Mark Shinwell]

On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 at 17:52, Wookey <wookey at wookware.org> wrote:

> On 2020-04-19 17:14 +0100, Philip Sargent (Gmail) wrote:
> > I don't know if this is worth mentioning, or maybe already very
> well-known,
> > but I noticed that ARGE survex files often contain blocks from many
> > different trips, sometimes from=20
> > several years (?) and referring (*ref) to many survey scan wallets from
> > within one svx file.
> >
> > Is this a past mistake/habit, or is it their current way of working ?
>
> It's the way they like to do their data (and to be fair the way we
> used to do ours - it's not wrong, and quite sensible in some ways as
> it gives some structure beyond a very simple-minded, but convenient
> for stupid computers, one file per survey). We tried to agree one way
> of working so we could just have one dataset, rather than merging
> stuff back and forth each year, but they insisted on a couple of
> things we really didn't want (like a *fix in every cave) so this is
> how it is.
>

I think encouraging them not to have trips from different years in the same
changesets would be a good thing.

Mark
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