General Cave Survey hints | A general document - showing the basics of cave surveying |
Creating maps for cavers (PDF) | An older document, concentrating on hand map drafting. Good information but largely overshadowed by computer drafting now |
Sketching for Beginners (powerpoint) | A presentation from Pat Kambesis' Survey and cartography class. A basic introduction to keeping book and sketching in the cave |
Cave Survey Blunders(powerpoint) | Another Class presentation, detailing survey blunders and how to detect and correct |
Intro to cave cartography (Powerpoint) | A class presentation showing the fundamentals of computer cartography |
Introduction to the Components of Cartography (powerpoint) | A presentation at the 2007 NSS Convention. A guide to the necessary components of a Cave map, based on how maps are judged at the NSS Cartography Salon |
Pulling it Together (powerpoint) | A GCG Grotto Presentation. How to be a 'Project" cave leader - a guide to pulling all the various parts of survey and cartography together and produce a map |
Illustrator Brushes (powerpoint) | A presentation at the 2008 NSS convention. This powerpoint shows the basics of creating and using Brushes in Illustrator |
Teaching Carto (powerpoint) | A presentation at the 2010 NSS convention. This powerpoint does not teach any cartography skills, but shares how to start a class in your grotto to build future cartographers | Fill your rocks (powerpoint) | A presentation at the 2012 NSS convention. This powerpoint Shows how to start using color in your maps and some of the changes from current methods in drafting to make color stand out! |
Open Cave Data (powerpoint) | A Presentation at the 2007 NSS Convention. Shares the theory of Open Data and the concepts on which this web site is built |
GCG Cartography Class
Using Compass | First Class topic of the GCG Cartography Class - this powerpoint introduces Data reduction and Plotting, the softwares that are available, and then goes into detail on how to use Compass. Updated for newer versions of comapss |
Illustrator Basics - Lines, Scan and Walls (powerpoint) | Second Class Topic - Intro to Illustrator. How to import plots via cave illustrator plugin, how to scan and import sketches, and how to start drawing Walls |
Survey class 2 data.zip | Survey data and Survey scans |
CaveIllustrator.aip | Cave illustrator Plug in |
Basic Cartography 2 - Symbols, Brushes and Geology | Third Class topic, continuing illustrator instruction for basic Cartography, concentrating on creating and using brushes |
Basic Cartography 3 - Details | Forth Class Topic, concentrating on Floor detail: How to draw rocks, cobbles and other floor covering. Also looking at brush and tablet hints |
Basic Cartography 4 - Cross sections | Fifth Class Topic describing how to add cross sections and other information to make the plan view of the map look correct |
Basic Cartography 5 - Finished Map components | The sixth class topic. When your drafting of the cave passage is complete, you still have to add components to make a drawing, a cave map. This lesson Describes those additional components |