The Survey and Mapping Working Group of the Informatics Commission tackles the various issues related to cave/karst survey and mapping. Where a significant amount of work is needed on a particular task, it creates a subgroup to help focus on that work. Anyone who wants to participate in the work of a Group, and countries who want to appoint a Country Delegate to the Group or one of its sub-groups for final voting, are invited to contact the respective Chairman (click on Chairman's name for contact details). UIS voting is on the basis of one vote per interested country. The sub- Working Groups to date are:
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Recently, the group reviewed the basic map symbols. Now it will tackle survey and mapping grades. If you have an opinion or want to help, please contact the Chairman.
[ UISIC Home ] [ UIS ]The Karst Surface Map Symbols Working Group developed the symbols list over several years, also in consultation with the Karst Commissions of the International Geographical Union (IGU) and the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH). Final voting by the Working Group Country Delegates was in May 2006.
You can find the Karst surface
symbols at: http://www.sghbern.ch/surfaceSymbols/symbol1.html
They are also published in Zeitschrift
für Geomorphologie, Supplementbände, Band 147.
See: http://www.borntraeger-cramer.de/pubs/isbn/bo/zeitschrfg-344321147X-desc.html
Argentina Redonte, Gabriel Yes Australia Grimes, Ken Abstained Austria Plan, Lukas Yes Brasil Hardt, Rubens Yes Croatia Faivre, Sanja (no answer!) France Ournie, Bernard Yes Germany Mueller, Ralph Yes Hungary Moga, Janos (no answer!) Japan Norihiko, Ishikawa Yes Lebanon Ghada, Salem Yes Mexico Montano, Juan Ant. Yes Russia Lavrov, Igor Yes Serbia Calic, Jelena Yes Sweden Agrell, Erik Yes Switzerland Häuselmann, Philipp Yes Turkey Guner, Noyan Yes UK Atkinson, Andy Abstained USA Kambesis, Pat Yes Venezuela Carreño, Rafael Yes[ Top ]
The Survey and Mapping Working Group completed its work on Basic Cave Mapping Symbols in May 1999. The now standard symbols arose from extended discussions by many people, then final voting by the Working Group Country Delegates.
The agreed set of Basic Cave Mapping Symbols can be found at:
http://www.carto.net/cgi-neumann/cave_symbol.plArgentina Redonte, Gabriel Yes Australia Grimes, Ken Yes (abstained*) Austria Neumann, Andreas Yes Brazil Hardt, Rubens Yes France Aulas, Jean-Pierre Yes Germany Mueller, Ralph Yes Russia Lavrov, Igor Yes Switzerland Häuselmann, Philipp Yes UK Atkinson, Andy Yes USA Petrie, Garry Yes Venezuela Carreño, Rafael Yes (abstained*) * Before the vote it was stated that absence of a vote would be taken as a "Yes".Between July 2007 and May 2008 the list was in revision. It was not a major revision as the setup of the standards took place only in 1999. However the Working Group decided to leave them unchanged. The delegates are:
Argentina Redonte, Gabriel gredonte@telecentro.com.ar Australia Grimes, Ken regmap1@ozemail.com.au Austria Plan, Lukas lukas.plan@univie.ac.at Brasil Hardt, Rubens rubens_hardt@yahoo.com.br Croatia Bocic, Neven nbocic@geog.pmf.hr, bocic@net.hr France Ournie, Bernard b.ournie@free.fr Germany Mueller, Ralph ralph.f.mueller@daimlerchrysler.com Hungary Moga, Janos jmoga@freemail.hu Japan Ishikawa, Norihiko snow63@jcom.home.ne.jp Lebanon Salem, Ghada ghadasalem1@hotmail.com Mexico Montano, Juan Ant. espeleo99@yahoo.com Russia Lavrov, Igor karst@permonline.ru Serbia Calic, Jelena j.calic@sezampro.yu Sweden Agrell, Erik agrell@s2.chalmers.se Switzerland Haeuselmann, Philipp praezis@speleo.ch Turkey Guner, Noyan n.guner@mta.gov.tr UK Atkinson, Andy andrew@wotcc.org.uk USA Kambesis, Pat pat.kambesis@wku.edu Venezuela Carreno, Rafael rafaelcarreno2004@yahoo.es[ Top ]
This Group will be working on an exchange and archiving format for cave and karst data, but in the first instance concentrated on data relating to cave surveying and mapping. The format will use XML standards, and the work will be co-ordinated with that of the coming UISIC Working Group for Cave Data Field Definitions. The format (Markup Language) is called CaveXML.
After much discussion, and for a while losing our server to a hacker,
CaveXML for survey and mapping unfortunately got too hard, and since mid
2005 interest has waned. If anyone wants to tackle any of the tasks identified,
or resurrect and lead the group on the survey and mapping project, please
email the Chairman. The web pages and mailing list reflecting the progress
of the survey and mapping project of the Working Group can be found at:
http://www.cavexml.uis-speleo.org
At the 1997 UIS Congress in Switzerland, the UIS Informatics Commission (UISIC) was asked by the Chairman of the original Swiss Speleo Society's Working Group for Cave Mapping Symbols to form a new working group within the Commission to further this work. After discussion the proposal was accepted, and was included in UISIC's 4-year plan at the subsequent UIS General Assembly.
The reasons for forming the Survey and Mapping Working Group within UISIC were:
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