+++ Bill Gee [2015-09-14 19:48 -0500]:
When you are drawing the sketch in the cave, is it normal to ALWAYS make north the same direction on each sheet of paper?
No - whatever fits on the paper best is generally best (although if surveying in one rarely knows how that will go unless you have a very joint-controlled cave). In practice I do almost always put North up (and 'up' up on elevations) as I don't know which way the cave is going to go for more than a couple of legs.
What is considered "best practice" in this regard?
Always marking 'N' and 'up' on the sketches so it's obvious.
The man who is coordinating the project is also doing cartography using Windows tools (Walls, Xara, etc.) He sent me an email today asking if I will commit to making all future sketches with north being the top of the page. He asks because some of the computer work he does results in portions of the sketch being upside-down and therefore more difficult to read.
That is probably true with most drawing tools, including xtherion (which doesn't have a way of rotating the view to more easily read the writing, for example (SFAICS)). Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/