Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Grottos of the National Speleological Society (NSS)

Finally, a better way to find what grottos exist in a given area. I've crossed the country a couple of times stopping by a few caves on the way, but knowing which grottos were in a given area wasn't always the easiest (not that it really mattered). Although I'm glad the data is online, I'm not a huge fan of the layout used to find a local caving club as found on the NSS homepage. I use google maps to find directions on a regular basis, so why not take advantage of that comfortable interactive layout many of us already use. Clicking on one of the dots will show you all the posted information about the grottos including website, publication name, etc. The hardest part about this whole project was writing the script to gathering the data. Is this cool or what?
Yes, some of the data for each grotto may be a bit out of date, but that's up to the individual grottos to take care of.

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