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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Therion mailing list > Therion at speleo.sk > http://www.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion > >