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A project to design plugins for cave surveying in QGIS

Here is the initial ideas from the initial meeting

Enter centreline data
Source are:
[Manual Data Entry] (typing into Phil's onstation dialog box) (centreline only
Pockettopo (drawing outlines)
Sexytopo
Topodroid
Other ways

Joining up to other surveys
Use equate to a unique coded name that joins up between files automatically
equate 3 globalPippikinEntThing_3
automatically generates the gluing file

Enter drawing data
Call Tunnel or call therion

Other input data formats
Other survey data
e.g. point cloud, mesh, low grade survey, rigging guide
Other information about the cave
e.g. text, images (e.g. photographs, scans), data loggers (e.g. temperature, air quality), biological records, geological information (superficial(e.g. speleothems, deposits, cryogenic features), bedrock (stratographic and structural detail)), hydrology (e.g. flow rates and dye tracing (e.g. through time, concentration)), audio files

See a basemap
Requires that survey data has an x,y tie-in location and coordinate reference system (CRS) is defined

Generate bitmap of all caves within a specified rectangle (for backdrop into sexytopo)
End the blank white screen (ticket number on sexytopo for this)
or Vector background image

Collaborative working
QGIS server
what the hell does it do? <-- collaboration techniques

Versioning
Version control and backup for GIS data

QField
can this replace sexytopo and all the other stuff and automatically sync

Workflow (preparing and helping people find the layers they should have)
make good the datasets cavers want/need to import
(e.g. specialized lidar zone covering important caving patches)
*lidar (see above) (advised plugins)
Global digital elevation data (e.g. Aster, SRTM, EA etc.)
Spatial data catalogue (to be provided by Thom Starnes e.g. BGS layer, general infrastructure,Environmental archaological data, bats) includes data sources and web map service (WMS) URLs where applicable
Vector data (e.g. shapefiles (de facto GIS vector standard))

Outputs
Poster making
Prize for loveliest best looking survey done 100% in qgis output (with file) no cheating and tarting Corel Draw
Prize fastest poster making. (one hour to make a poster)
Workflow template directed at a good poster scheme
jigsaw puzzle laser cut
serve webpage interface (e.g. slippy map/flat page/3D model)
Wikipedia integration

Field use:
Output to field use? Is same as QField?
Navigable map:
My location
Basemap (e.g. OpenStreetMap, Google Maps etc.)
Things in spatial data catalogue (nominally 'layers')
Navigation tool (e.g. distance to entrance, heading etc.)
Groundwindow output --or other VR viewer that is geolocated (looking down through the ground)
As a webpage or an app?
voice action (e.g. calling survey data)

mechanism to record new caves
input data
unique identifier
location (x,y,z)
date and time
people
(date of record, name of who made the record)
name of who made the record
selfie page in facebook
photograph it (date of record)
name it. tag it. identify it.
description
grading of horribleness of the entrance

Archive of discarded survey data and mechanism to highlight where this exists

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Project Members:

• Andrew Atkinson (admin)