Depth index should not be called DEPT

[kwinkunks]

DEPT is a LAS thing, and could sometimes be TIME or DEPTH (as well as DEPT... yes, it's gross). At least, those are the 3 options in the standard. I suppose a person could come up with other things (MD, TVDSS, etc).

We should probably regularize it to DEPTH or TIME, so at least it's somewhat predictable. depth or time might be even more convenient, but a person might possibly suppose that it's uppercase, based on the standard.

Calling it a bug, because it's a break from the welly philosophy of being natural and 'geological', not just mirroring the LAS standard (that's what lasio is for).

[ThomasMGeo]

Does it make sense to make it Depth_ft or Depth_m? Might be too weird.

[kwinkunks]

I do like the idea of bringing units closer to everything, but there is a basis_units attribute, so I think it's okay to maintain that.

[ThomasMGeo]

💯 ! Sounds good, that makes sense.

[patrick-reinhard]

If we go ahead with this, would we like to support a way that you can still export with the original index mnemonic (e.g. DEPT) ?

[kinverarity1]

Agreed - in lasio it's properly "index" i.e. first curve is LASFile.index, but I don't think that's a very natural term to a geologist.