OK, I agree with all current comments. I didn't know your project before, Julian ! It's quite nice and working well. May be one thing I can point out is that the datas stored about caves are not many... You only have coordinates ? I think that maybe we can add other levels of information, for people who want to add them. But clearly, your work is great and a very very good base of work !!! About Eric comments : I think that we can try to make the discussion very widely, including other softwares... We should organize a contest of Computer Aided Caving Surveys... However, the question here was to know if there is a dynamic to organize such a wide meeting about survey softs !! I know people are interested and I will try to define more precisely the programm and make a call for presentation for a wide community (not only therion one !!) Thierry Julian Todd a écrit :
thierrygonon wrote:
I plan to make a full day of presentation and after that, a half-day round-table about CAVE INVENTORIES : I'd like to put on paper some general guidelines for european inventories, so that we can find on every national inventories in Europe some common features, at the same (top) level of records...
Well, there's no point in waiting two years to do something. If I may make an observation that no inventory can work unless it actually does something -- you have to get rewarded for putting something into it because we can't punish people for not putting data into it. Here's a contribution to the effort:
http://seagrass.goatchurch.org.uk/~mjg/cgi-bin/map.py
All you need to post on the web is a location, scale, orientation and bitmap of a survey of whatever (low) quality you are comfortable with that doesn't infringe on your control of the data, and it can be seen in the global geographical context on any cave portal someone chooses to write (not necessarily on my own server). This would form the backbone of any cave inventory, and you guys can start adding a few examples to it now.
Only after you've gathered some material examples from around the world, and shown that there is a method of engaging people in the project, is it worth doing a meeting to make it better organized.
Julian T.
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