Survex 1.1.1 test version uploaded

[M.J. Green]

On Oct 13 2004, Andy Waddington on Cave Surveying wrote:

> On Wednesday 2004-10-13 16:00, Jenny Black typed:
> 
> > -- andrew wrote:
> > > But why would you want to write code for people who don't read
> > > manuals ? It is just asking for ignorant stupid people to use your
> > > software (who aren't the sort of people you want surveying caves
> > > anyway) and wasting your time with support emails.
> > 
> > The "sort of people you want surveying caves" are people who are 
> > reasonably intelligent, can read instruments, write down numbers and 
> > draw sketches. This is not the same as being computer literate.
> 
> I am not suggesting for one moment that cave surveyors (doing the work 
> underground) need to be computer literate. But ones doing the data 
> processing need to be the sort of people who think about what they are 
> doing, and understand enough of the theory behind it that they will not 
> do things which give silly results and totally fail to spot this. These 
> are exactly the sort of people who, in my experience, would want good 
> documentation and would read it. What you don't want is something that 
> tells you how to make sumps show up pink when you are trying to 
> concentrate on why two passages that have just been connected by cavers 
> appear to be nowhere near each other on the survey.
> 
Of course aven, for which toll tips were suggested, is cave viewing software,.  It is not just used by the data processors, but also by people who want to look at the structure of the cave.  These people I feel quite legitimately would like to just be able to look at the cave, and not have to read the manual to do so.

Cheers,
Martin