On 2006-12-22 09:50 +0100, Stacho Mudrak wrote:
Quoting Wookey <wookey@aleph1.co.uk>:
There are point symbols for blocks and peddles and debris and roots and all sorts of things but not 'a rock' which would be a really well-used one if it existed...
There is no problem to add one. Just to be sure - what is the difference between block and rock?
Erm, none, for this purpose. In english caving terminology a 'block' is a large rock, at least 1m in some dimension, and sometimes more than 10m. A rock is any rock down to hand size, as well as the bedrock itself. 'Boulder' is rocks bigger than 0.5m diameter, and tends to imply a relatively round shape. This probably varies a bit with regions (I tend to use 'rock' for all rocks no matter what size or shape, adding 'huge', 'big', 'house-sized', 'dodgy' as required. I might use 'block' if it was very square, but rarely).
Is there a good reason why we don't have this?
There is no reason. There are still some symbols missing - for example, I am missing symbol for stalactites. We have a symbol for single stalactite, but if there are many small ones, we have no symbol for that also.
And I still owe you a drawing of a calcite area for designing a symbol. Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://wookware.org/