Australia's national cave database

[Peter Matthews]

This is just a short example posting to be expanded by people who know more about it than I do. The Australian Speleological Federation (ASF) has had a web-based open-source cave database, read-only since 2001, and updateable since 2005 (140 fields, listing 6600 caves and karst features, 2400 maps, 925 references). Most clubs Australia-wide contributed their data to the database. It stores locational data only to the nearest 10km grid reference or 5 minutes of lat/long, therefore cavers were happy to contribute their data. It was based on an earlier local relational PC version developed in the early 1980's.

Here is an ICS paper describing the database as at 2005.

You can access the current database at: https://www.caves.org.au/caves-and-clubs/karst-index-database.

My relationship to the above is that I developed and produced the original local database and generated the book ( Australian Karst Index 1985.) from it.