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:
  1. Locations are NOT shared
  2. All data is available via scans, Jpegs and PDFs
  3. Nothing is sacred, or owned. You may NOT be the best person for the job
  4. Anyone can pick up a project
  5. Projects in various forms and stages can be shared
  6. Maps as well as raw data are in danger of being lost and should be shared
  7. All other data forms can be shared with the survey data

    8. - Stories
    - Pictures
    - Sketch maps
    - Working Maps
    - Lead lists
  8. 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.