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Participate in the AGM of the Wikicaves association

  The Wikicaves association will hold its AGM from April 22 to 28. If you are interested in receiving the emails that will be exchanged during this general meeting, let us know by sending us a message  https://en.wikicaves.org/contact    
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“BD Cavités” on Grottocenter

    The elements of the “BD Cavités”, a database created by the BRGM, have just been integrated into Grottocenter. Several thousand entries enrich the database “created by cavers for cavers”. Grottocenter has already exceeded 102,000 entrances and cavities.   For various historical reasons, the coordinates of these entries, proposed by the BRGM, are not always very precise. Everyone, in their area of interest, will be able to improve these locations and also complete the encyclopedic sections, as well as the associated documents. Everyone's work will benefit everyone.

100,000 caves on Grottocenter

  Grottocenter gives you free access to more than 100,000 caves. This is just the beginning, thanks to your commitment this figure is changing every day

Major evolution of the BBS on Grottocenter

  All analyzes carried out for issues 27 to 55 of the BBS were integrated into the BBS on Grottocenter, whenever possible the articles were associated with their journal and their collection.   Vincent has just published a very large work which constitutes version 24.0 of Grottocenter. It was made possible thanks to funding provided by the SSS A first part consists of updating all the libraries used The creation of documents has been moved to the entity creation menu and this is done in a single window without going through different steps The management of details has been improved, for example the link of a document to a massif is done from the massif page The information in the documents page has been reorganized to have a more condensed, more readable whole. The associated license is displayed and it is directly possible to view the image, PDF, sound or video files. An important element concerns the relationship to geographical entities. Previously we associated BBS docu

Make a donation for Grottocenter to manage scientific observations

  https://www.helloasso.com/associations/wikicaves/formulaires/1   Pollution, human activity, data from sensors, topography, photogrammetry, biospeleology: a lot of data is collected on the underground environment. It's time to provide them with a place to save them and make them accessible to the entire community. This is what we are proposing as our objective for 2024. For this we need your help. By collecting €5,000 we will be able to have a student work for 5 months on this subject. With €20,000 we are able to build a complete topographical data processing chain.   Your help will become our common good

More than 80,000 caves freely accessible on Grottocenter

  Thanks to the data placed under a free license, the contributions of the partners of the Wikicaves association and the involvement of the contributors to Grottocenter, the number of available caves has just exceeded 80,000. Thank you all  

Partnership with the "CDS du Gard"

  As part of the partnership that we signed with the "CDS du Gard", Laurent Blum made data collected by Jean-Louis Galera available to Grottocenter.   A little over 1000 caves, located in Gard and in neighboring departments, have just been added to Grottocenter. Thank you for sharing.   If you also have data that you wish to share, if you are interested in a partnership with the Wikicaves association, contact us