After a period of hibernation, the sun has risen, and warmed and awakened us from our caves. Welcome to the newly updated ArcGIS Cave and Karst user group at the Esri Community. This will be a place to connect and share ideas, best practices, and examples of using and applying GIS, with the unique needs and requirements of this community in mind. You'll have the opportunity to: Connect, share, and collaborate. Get updates on news and products. Join discussions and ask questions. Share your examples and work with others. Contribute to a knowledge base of tips, best practices, and workflows. Click “Follow” in the top right corner and select “inbox” in the drop down menu. This will insure you get new updates in your GeoNet inbox and Outlook email. GeoNet Community Quick tips: If you do have a GeoNet account and are not logged in yet, you’ll need to click "login" first to join the group and contribute to conversations. If you don’t have a GeoNet account, click “login” and then follow the steps to create your GeoNet account. Once your account is created, follow Steps 1-3 above. For any additional questions, general tips and guidelines, please visit the GeoNet Help group , or contact the Cave and Karst group owners: Bern Szukalski: bszukalski@esri.com Bob Booth: bbooth@esri.com Thanks for joining and we look forward to seeing you here. Feel free to add a comment to say hello. If you have additional questions about software, grant opportunities, or anything else, let one of us know. And please let others you think might be interested know about this space.
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Thought I would share my 1st StoryMap with the team here. The storymap has had a few upgrades over the month, I've shared it with friends, co-workers and the local cave club, and lots of positive feedback that they enjoyed the Storymap format. So I do look forward to the next one. This one was made for tablet/phone in mind. (also thanks Bernard for that earlier assistance) Click below to go to the Samoa Cave StoryMap: ArcGIS StoryMaps Any further advice on improving the StoryMap is greatly appreciated.
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Sorry if this seems like a rookie question, as I am with self-learning arcgis (online) with only 6 months of tinkering, and I apologize if my GIS lingo is not right. My question is around the structure of cave tables for mainly point data of cave entrances, I have a reasonable list of cave entrance locations - but what is the best way to set up/structure cave tables/tabs? Is it recommended to create a main tab for the cave and give the cave a unique ID (basic info on a tab/table), and then add other feature tables linking to the Unique ID number eg other tables such as Entrances, property owners, environmental features, surveyors, finder of the cave etc? or just make 1 mega table where possible? Whats the best way to start thinking about the structure of table(s) and the number of tables? I have seen one 1 reasonable articles on the web on example tables, I just thought to ask this group if there are any recommended reading out there or considerations to the structure from others learnings. Many thanks in advance. Karl.
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Here's a Story Map Cascade I stumbled across the other day. It's about the ThamLuang Cave (Thailand) rescue, and presents an overview of how GIS was applied. The Story Map was authored by Esri Thailand, and one of the interesting features of the Story Map is that it is bilingual.
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