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Welcome This site is
dedicated to the preservation of Cave Maps and Survey data, as
well as to the training of Cave Cartographers.
Surveying in caves is a hard and thankless
task. We spend hours in uncomfortable locations working to
obtain the data we bring back to create cave maps.
However in several cases all the hard
work put into the survey and sketching of caves has been lost.
Either the data itself is lost due to a catastrophe or
negligence or the project leader loses interest in the
cave, project, or in several cases, caving altogether, and walks
away with data.
This site was started as an example how the
internet can preserve and make available data over long periods
of time. This site was designed with these concepts in mind:
Open Data
Concepts:
- Locations are NOT
shared
- All data is
available via scans, Jpegs and PDFs
- Nothing is sacred,
or owned. You may NOT be the best person for the job
- Anyone can pick up
a project
- Projects in
various forms and stages can be shared
- Maps as well as
raw data are in danger of being lost and should be
shared
- All other data
forms can be shared with the survey data
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Stories
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Pictures
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Sketch maps
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Working Maps
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Lead lists
- Data and
Maps to small caves independent of location data
pose no
additional risk
to cave or cave life
We hope to grow this to include all maps
within our target areas. However you will NOT find cave
locations shared here - instead you will find the data we are
working to preserve.
For more info on this concept - please see the
powerpoint in the training area
Open Data:
Small
Caves Example to Preserving Data on the Internet
Site Being Updated at this time
(Last update - 4/25/08)
Howard
NSS20678
For More info -
Email me!
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