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Inkscape extensions to facilitate drawing cave maps

With Inkscape 1.3 they don't make sense any more! Since Inkscape 1.1 it is possible to draw cave maps natively, no need to use any extensions. I authored a guide, but for now it is available only in Polish and German. Further translations are on their way.

Surveying-related utilities (as web services)

Source code

The above utilities also work as standalone PHP scripts (in command-line mode). The source code is available for download here. To run them locally, you need: Linux, command-line PHP, gdal and no fear of the Linux command-line.

Potoco (PocketTopo Converter)

A utility to convert PocketTopo data into Survex/Walls. Available as standalone Windows Executable or Python source code. Warning: the program requires a Therion Export from PocketTopo on the input side (ie. File / Export / Therion...).

dxtool

dxtool is a very minimalistic implementation of the DistoX communications
protocol, as described in "DistoX Advanced Information" (2010/12/12). It 
runs as a Linux command line application. 

Originally, the utility was created to re-download already downloaded
measurements. Since the DistoX uses a circular buffer to store measurements,
it is possible to recover last 4095 measurements, even if they have already
been downloaded to PDA.

Another possible use of the software is QUICKLY downloading LOTS of
unneccessary measurements from a DistoX that has been used with a paper
notebook.

Download dxtool v 0.1 from 2013-09-29.

Alpenvereins Digital Extractor

This small utility is intended for extracting maps out of the Alpenvereins Digital mapping application as Netpbm (PPM) files. You will need a legal copy of the Alpenvereins Digital and a Linux system running on the i386 architecture.

A stripped static ELF binary is provided in the archive together with its source code. Should the binary not work, you may try to recompile it. It depends only on the JPEG library (libjpeg.so).

Download av-extract-20130201.

Other stuff

Sino-polish-english dictionary of caving terms: download.

By: Mateusz Golicz. Contact: name.surname@pza.org.pl