jaswa
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Basically my question is: Survex? Therion? Compass?
Which choice to i go for?
Initially surveying to try to relate 2 smallish (<1mile) cave systems which are very close to each other and to various known sink holes that have been found in the dry riverbed above in order to asses the likely hood of various potential digs/boulder chokes being fruitful.
Secondly to produce some decent plan and elevation maps for other cavers.
I've had a play with Survex up to now and have got my head around it enough to get the basics for a simple survey. I've not yet had a serious try with Compass or Therion.
A bonus would be to be able to run the software on a Windows PC without having administrator rights to install it. Survex/Aven does allow me to do this - i just told it to install to a folder on my dekstop and ensure that cavern.exe is set to run in windows 95 compatibility mode. (So i can work on projects during my lunch breaks on my work pc where everything is locked down).
What does one package give me that another one doesn't?
Which choice to i go for?
Initially surveying to try to relate 2 smallish (<1mile) cave systems which are very close to each other and to various known sink holes that have been found in the dry riverbed above in order to asses the likely hood of various potential digs/boulder chokes being fruitful.
Secondly to produce some decent plan and elevation maps for other cavers.
I've had a play with Survex up to now and have got my head around it enough to get the basics for a simple survey. I've not yet had a serious try with Compass or Therion.
A bonus would be to be able to run the software on a Windows PC without having administrator rights to install it. Survex/Aven does allow me to do this - i just told it to install to a folder on my dekstop and ensure that cavern.exe is set to run in windows 95 compatibility mode. (So i can work on projects during my lunch breaks on my work pc where everything is locked down).
What does one package give me that another one doesn't?