<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 at 17:52, Wookey <<a href="mailto:wookey@wookware.org">wookey@wookware.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 2020-04-19 17:14 +0100, Philip Sargent (Gmail) wrote:<br>
> I don't know if this is worth mentioning, or maybe already very well-known,<br>
> but I noticed that ARGE survex files often contain blocks from many<br>
> different trips, sometimes from=20<br>
> several years (?) and referring (*ref) to many survey scan wallets from<br>
> within one svx file.<br>
><br>
> Is this a past mistake/habit, or is it their current way of working ?<br>
<br>
It's the way they like to do their data (and to be fair the way we<br>
used to do ours - it's not wrong, and quite sensible in some ways as<br>
it gives some structure beyond a very simple-minded, but convenient<br>
for stupid computers, one file per survey). We tried to agree one way<br>
of working so we could just have one dataset, rather than merging<br>
stuff back and forth each year, but they insisted on a couple of<br>
things we really didn't want (like a *fix in every cave) so this is<br>
how it is.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think encouraging them not to have trips from different years in the same changesets would be a good thing. </div><div><br></div><div>Mark </div></div></div>