UIS Informatics Commission

Survey and Mapping Working Group

Chairman: Philipp HÄUSELMANN, Switzerland

2008-09-30

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:

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.

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Karst Surface Map Symbols

In collaboration with IGU and IAH

Chairman: Philipp HÄUSELMANN, Switzerland

2007-02-09

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

The UIS Working Group country delegates voting were:
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
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Basic Cave Mapping Symbols

Chairman: Philipp HÄUSELMANN, Switzerland

2008-09-30

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.pl

The country delegates were:
Argentina    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                                
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Cave Data Exchange Format

Chairman: Peter MATTHEWS, Australia

2007-02-09

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

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Historical note

Peter MATTHEWS, UISIC President

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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