From: Bill Frantz (frantz_at_pwpconsult.com)
Date: Thu Oct 24 2002 - 19:26:42 CEST
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At 9:10 AM -0700 10/24/02, P A Hill & E V Goodall wrote:
>========================================================================
>Raw data -- Field data when converted unchanged into character-based
>form, or downloaded from an instrument.
>========================================================================
>
>Of course, I'm still leaning toward use of the term "text-based" and not
>"character-based".
I would like to capture the idea of taking a sketch from an active field
instrument (I'm thinking of a PDA-like device) and moving it to a computer
for later processing. The sketch might be stored in the device in several
different formats:
* Pixel map
* Bezier curves
* Location and orientation of glyphs (e.g. symbols for formations, slopes etc.)
* ???
* A combination of the above
Any of the above formats might be used in the computer to store the data.
The conversion of pixel maps to Bezier curves seems a natural
transformation, much like the transformation from pencil marks to
characters for the station, distance, azimuth, vertical angle, LRUD data
from a survey book.
Good Caving - Bill
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