[Therion] Paperless Cave Survey with DistoX, PocketTopo and Therion

[Martin Sluka]

Several years ago Stacho made simple export from Therion to  
PocketTopo. It created plenty of short series, but it worked. The name  
of Therion station could be wrote in note field.

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On 14.9.2010, at 23:12, Bruce wrote:

>> Has anyone achieved the reverse?  I'd like to export an existing  
>> Therion
>> survey into PocketTopo, so that when I add to the survey using the  
>> DistoX,
>> I can immediately see the new and the old data in PocketTopo.
>> Regards,
>> - Ben
>
> A nice idea, and I'm sure it could be done.  PocketTopo is a great  
> tool for
> collecting data, but for me it would be like getting back into a  
> strait
> jacket.
>
> I can see issues with survey or 'series' connections, station  
> naming, and
> station co-ordinates.  In Therion these are completely flexible, we  
> add
> prefixes & suffixes to the pockettopo stations, for example, to make  
> them
> more human readable.  In PocketTopo they appear to be rigidly  
> constrained,
> and I have found odd things happen when I (regularly) bend PocketTopos
> rules.
>
> Good Luck
> Bruce
>
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