<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 1:07 PM Andrew Atkinson <<a href="mailto:andrew@wotcc.org.uk">andrew@wotcc.org.uk</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">> I would hesitate to use magnetic legs for this<br>
> purpose (there is much uncertainty with the declination as the models<br>
> are not particularly precise, there is a daily variation of declination<br>
> (up to 0.2 degrees!) and there might be local magnetic anomalies).<br><br>
In this case the cave comes out in a valley with little gps signal, the<br>
position and orientation was set from the 2 gps positions we could get,<br>
the a traverse to the cave. So I have very little idea how that ties in<br>
with the declination model. I have been assuming that the direction it<br>
gave where OS grid as that is the format of the positions, I have no way<br>
to check this. I have set the declination to 0 to stop date and position<br>
correction. I think this it right, but advice welcome.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Ah, that was a reaction to some previous remarks in the discussion:</div><div><br></div><div>> In places where we haven't been able to get GPS we have used a distox to set up the leg </div><div><br></div><div>and <br></div><div><br></div><div>> I did consider using an approach similar to Andrew’s, ie to calibrate the Theodolite against a magnetic leg ...<br></div><div><br></div><div>Martin</div></div></div>