UIS Informatics Commission

Survey and Mapping Working Group

Chairman: Philipp HÄUSELMANN, Switzerland

2010-06-09

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 working group reviewed the basic map symbols. Now it is tackling survey and mapping grades. Details can be found in our Grades Forum. This WG has finished discussion and is now voting by WG country delegates.

Forums: The working group's forums can be found at: http://www.uis-speleo.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=63

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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
Brazil 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, PhilippYes
Turkey Guner, Noyan Yes
UK Atkinson, Andy Abstained
USA Kambesis, Pat Yes
Venezuela Carreño, Rafael Yes

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Survey & Mapping Grades

Chairman: Philipp HÄUSELMANN, Switzerland

2010-06-09

The Working Group has been discussing survey and mapping grades, originally introduced by BCRA (UK), and later adopted by other organizations. The grades assess the precision and accuracy of a given survey, and discuss the methods and materials used. Although these grades are widely known, the UIS has never discussed and adopted a grading system. The main debate is already over (Kerrville 2009), and the current draft is available via our Grades Forum.

Discussion has now finished and voting is under way by the country delegates. Votes should be in by around the end of June 2010.

Forum: http://www.uis-speleo.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=63

Country Delegates:

Argentina Redonte, Gabriel gredonte@gmail.com
Australia Warild, Al. alw@exemail.com.au
Austria Plan, Lukas lukas.plan@NHM-WIEN.AC.AT
Brazil Kok, Geribello F. fabio@geribello.com.br
Croatia Bocic, Neven nbocic@geog.pmf.hr
France Ournie, Bernard b.ournie@free.fr
Germany Müller, Ralph ralphfmueller@aol.com
Hungary Moga, Janos jmoga@freemail.hu
Italy Pani, Daniela daniela.pani@gmail.com
Japan Ishikawa, Norihiko snow63@jcom.home.ne.jp
Lebanon Ghada, Salem ghada-salem@live.com
Mexico Montano, Juan Ant. espeleo99@yahoo.com
Netherlands Burgers, Yoxz yoxz@hccnet.nl
Romania Tudor, Tamas tudor.tamas@ubbcluj.ro
Russia Lavrov, Igor karst@permonline.ru
Serbia Calic, Jelena j.calic@sezampro.yu
Sweden Agrell, Erik agrell@chalmers.se
Switzerland Häuselmann, Philipppraezis@speleo.ch
Turkey Guner, Noyan n.guner@mta.gov.tr, noyan_guner@yahoo.com
UK Atkinson, Andy andrew@wotcc.org.uk
USA Kambesis, Pat pat.kambesis@wku.edu
Venezuela Carreño, Rafael rafaelcarreno2004@yahoo.es

Collaborators:

Australia Grimes, Ken ken.grimes@bigpond.com
Brazil Hardt, Rubens rubens_hardt@yahoo.com.br
Croatia Baksic, Darko baksic@gmail.com

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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 Müller, Ralph Yes
Russia Lavrov, Igor Yes
Switzerland Häuselmann, PhilippYes
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 were:

Argentina Redonte, Gabriel
Australia Grimes, Ken
Austria Plan, Lukas
Brazil Hardt, Rubens
Croatia Bocic, Neven
France Ournie, Bernard
Germany Müller, Ralph
Hungary Moga, Janos
Japan Ishikawa, Norihiko
Lebanon Ghada, Salem
Mexico Montano, Juan Ant.
Russia Lavrov, Igor
Serbia Calic, Jelena
Sweden Agrell, Erik
Switzerland Häuselmann, Philipp
Turkey Guner, Noyan
UK Atkinson, Andy
USA Kambesis, Pat
Venezuela Carreño, Rafael

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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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