This site gives access to a database of caves and underground features. The entries are predominantly caves, but other sorts of entry such as mines, shafts, fissures, resurgences etc. will also be found here. The visitor is also free to add to the database by entering new information or extending what is already there.
It is not intended to limit the database to being a simple list of caves by length or depth, but to hopefully become a site that is a comprehensive source of underground information.
For a quick start, some links to places on this site are given above. The quick search
option will return all caves that have the element in their names. So, entering 'ogof' will
return
Ogof Carno,
Ogof Clogwyn
etc. For a better search page, follow the link above.
The display page for cave details has been completely redesigned. You can also jump straight to the modify pages from it so no tedious searching on menus. A link at the top of the cave detail page will also take you to a location map from StreetMap.co.uk .
The database now supports pictures!
From the show a cave page (reached from any cave list page) you can choose an option to upload pictures fro the cave. This will open a window that allows for the uploading of images for that cave. These can then be viewed on the show a cave page.
Please feel free to add your own (clean ones please).
The site is easy (hopefully) to navigate by means of the navigation bar that you will find at the top of all pages. There are three main links there. One gets you back here, the next takes you to a page that gives you the add and edit options, then the next is the browse or search options. At the far right is the jumper box that lets you select a page and will then take you directly there. The other item on the bar is the Help! link. Clicking this will open up another window that contains a context sensitive help page (mostly).
Cave data is organised by Region (eg. South Wales), then Area (eg. Clydach Gorge), then Cave followed by Places. This means that you can search for a cave within a region or area and find all the places within a cave, also list caves by name, length, difficulty and so on (some still to be implemented).
If you wish to contribute items for inclusion in the database, please feel free to do so. You can add individual entries by following the links on the Navbar at the top of the page. Alternatively, if you have a large amount of data that could be added, then I can take files of just about any format and add them for you. Preferably the data will be in some sort of logical structure and in a format such as a database or spreadsheet. This could then be e-mailed to me and I will add the data to the database with full recognition for the contributor. I hope to implement some form of file upload facility at some point to make this easier.
I would like to thank Dick Grindley of the Grampian Speleological Group who turned up in the pub with a disk of hundreds of Scottish caves. He allowed me to take his data and add it to this site which gave it a great boost in that it actually had some data in it. Dick has put a huge amount of effort into producing the Scottish Cave Registry and his efforts in collating and creating the registry is not to be underestimated.
I hope that using this site is pretty obvious, but if you have any problems, comments, advice, then you can add a comment by following the appropriate links or contact me directly at cavedb (at) cavedatabase.co.uk