Related Cavers Websites

International Union of Speleology

• http://www.uis-speleo.org, The official UIS site
• http://www.uisic.uis-speleo.org, the UIS Informatics Commission (UISIC)
• http://www.cavexml.uis-speleo.org, the Cave Data Exchange Format Working Group

Existing work with XML and cave data can be found at the following websites:

• http://www.speleonics.com.au/cavescript/, by Michael Lake.
• http://www.psc-cavers.org/xml/index.html, by Devin Kouts.
• http://www.laverty.freeserve.co.uk/XML/KML.htm, by Martin Laverty.

Websites related to Speleometry-Software (Cave data management, surveying, visualization)

• http://members.aol.com/caverdave/CPHome.html, CavePlot, Macintosh Platform.
• http://home.earthlink.net/~hubertcrowell/, CAPS, Windows Platform.
• http://caverender.de/, Caverender, Windows Platform, Viewer in Java.
• http://www.fountainware.com/compass/, Compass, Dos and Windows Platform.
• http://www.multimania.com/esibert/speleo/cybertpo.htm, Cybertopo, Windows Platform.
• http://members.home.net/tacovan/, Onstation, Windows Platform.
• http://www.survex.com/, Survex, Dos, Windows, Linux, RiscOs, etc.
• http://www.geo.unizh.ch/spelaion/, Toporobot, Macintosh platform.
• http://www.multimania.com/vtopo/vtopo.htm, Visual Topo, Windows platform.
• http://home.europa.com/~gp/winkarst.html, Winkarst, Windows platform.
• http://davidmck.home.texas.net/walls/, Walls, Windows platform.

Websites related to Speleography (Cartography, Computer assisted cave mapping)

• http://www.laverty.freeserve.co.uk/, Dealing with SVG and XSLT.
• http://www.goatchurch.org.uk/, Tunnel 3, a Java-based cave-mapping tool, working with Survex-Data.
• http://www.geo.unizh.ch/spelaion/cfh/, Cave-Mapping with AutoCAD, closely collaborating with Toporobot, CaveRender and Survex
• http://www.karto.ethz.ch/neumann/, Cave-Mapping with CorelDRAW (under construction), examples, SVG maps, closely collaborating with Toporobot

Websites related to cave surveying, incl. electronic devices

• http://home.nikocity.de/andymon/hfg/auriga4.htm, Auriga, Electronic Compass and Clinometer.
• http://cachtice.miesto.sk/laser.html, Laser Cave Surveying Tools.
• http://www.cc.utah.edu/~nahaj/cave/survey/, Cave Survey Related items, John Halleck.

Websites related to 3D-Cave-Visualization

• http://www.laverty.freeserve.co.uk/, Dealing with VRML and X3D.
• http://www.goatchurch.org.uk/, Tunnel, a Java-based tool to model various cross-section, including a cross-section editor, output in VRML, working with Survex-Data.
• http://www.karto.ethz.ch/neumann/, Static Povray-Views, Simple Cave Information System with VRML
• http://www.topoi.ch/, Geo3D - a 3D Viewer based on QuickDraw3D, Macintosh Platform, well integrated with Toporobot, Freeware.