GrottoCenter Blog

A few small changes have been made over the last 24 hours to address specific requests: Nathan felt it didn't make sense to display a license when a document wasn't linked to an actual file > the license is no longer displayed. Jean Donatien felt that the term "layers" in the context of deleting polygons (massif perimeters) wasn't quite right > this has been fixed. Paul also took the opportunity to make it clear on the network entrance page that there are descriptions available at the network level as well. He also updated the visualization of caves or entrances when linking one entrance to another or to a network. These are small details, but they help improve your user experience. Thanks, Paul.

This time, the new features are located at the bottom of the Grottocenter homepage. Paul has created a new "Best Practices" section; it hosts the page on bats as well as a new page—developed by Bernard—outlining the rules to follow to ensure environmental conservation. In the technical section, a new button has appeared, providing access to a tool for analyzing data collected in Grottocenter. It may seem simple, but a great deal of work went into it: when you are logged into Grottocenter, you are automatically connected to this data analysis platform.

Chloé has just produced and published a video showing you how to use all the features of the Grottocenter search engine. You'll learn everything in just 5 minutes—kudos on a fantastic job!

Ferdinando is responsible for publishing a very comprehensive article about the Wikicaves association and the recent developments of Grottocenter in the June issue of Underground Vision magazine. This is a way to raise awareness of the project and to keep track of its progress in 2026. https://speleomedit.tetide.org/magazine/published-numbers/june-2026-n2/

Intense work took place last night; Clément and Paul worked tirelessly, and this morning you can use the feature that allows you to import sensor data. This is a very important feature that required a tremendous amount of work. But it allows us to offer a service that is both essential for studying caves and currently unavailable as free, open-source software, freely usable online, enabling all processing, long-term data archiving, and making it available to anyone who needs it. Congratulations and thank you, Clément, for this excellent achievement!

To meet a need expressed by the prospecting team working in the Montpellier area and by the French Cave Rescue Service (Spéléo Secours Français), you can now download your search results for cave entrances in CSV, GPX, KML, and GeoJSON formats. Less visible but very important: Clément has also updated the search engine indexes so that the results provided better match your expectations. The result may look the same, but you get it much faster.