[Therion] Best practice - orientation of original sketch?

[Wookey]

+++ 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
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