As of November 2003, OUCC are running an experiment. The aim is to provide public access to a workable mainline survey of Ogof Draenen for use in route planning or exploration. It consists predominantly of G2 data provided by the original explorers, which can be downloaded from here as a .ZIP file and enjoyed using survex in the comfort of your own home.
We hope that the survey will stimulate past explorers who may be sitting on G2 data (or better) to feel motivated to send us their data for inclusion. We also hope that it will motivate current explorers both to continue surveying finds and to provide us with data (G5 if possible) for their latest finds (when they are comfortable, of course).
We fully appreciate that the "G5 surveyors" have produced a far superior survey of Ogof Draenen, both in terms of data accuracy and completeness. The current G2 does not in any way aim to supersede their survey, but will be provided publicly in the knowledge that access to the superior survey is understandably restricted at the present time.
We are keen to hear cavers' views on the project and, in particular, whether you believe there may be any sections of this survey that should not be included in the public version for reasons of copyright. However, to the best of our knowledge all the data so far included has been cleared by interested parties.
Tim Guilford, November 2003Survex the software required to view/process these files is Free Software, and can be downloaded from survex.com.
Last updated: 2003-11-20