Most cave databases are read-only archives. The KEEP is where your grotto meets, your survey team coordinates, and your region keeps its records.
Create a group for your grotto, survey team, regional committee, or any other organization. Group types are fully custom — name it whatever makes sense for your community. Members can share documents, coordinate trips, and manage events within the group.
Not limited to preset categories. Name your organization however your community uses — grotto, survey team, cave club, regional committee, or anything else.
Invite by email, approve join requests, assign member roles within the group. Each group controls its own membership independently.
Upload trip reports, survey files, and newsletters visible only to members. Documents can be shared across groups or kept strictly internal.
Message board for coordination and announcements. Keep your group's conversation attached to your group's data — not scattered across email threads.
A Cave Project is a shared workspace for a specific cave or area. Link specific cave sites, upload files, coordinate trips, and communicate — all in one place.
Plan trips tied to a project or standalone. Set dates, meeting points, and participant caps. Link specific caves. Add GPS waypoints and area polygons. Log participants and build a record of who was there and when.
Trips, training days, survey weekends, meetings, rescue drills, cleanup events. Registration and waitlists. Attendance tracking. Open to all members or invite-only — you decide per event.
Draw a polygon on the map defining your area of interest. If you have access to caves in that area, you'll get notified when new sites or updates appear within it — so you stay current on activity in your region without checking every day.
Alert zones are polygons you draw on the map — they don't have to follow county or state lines. Define exactly the area you care about. Alerts respect your access level: you only get notified about sites you can already see.
The caver directory is opt-in. You choose whether you appear in it, and you control what information is visible. Only verified members can search it — the directory is never publicly indexed.
Extracted data from documents gets flagged for community review before it's linked to site records. Members earn points for adding sites, uploading documents, and reviewing extractions. Leaderboards by region and grotto.
Upload your grotto's back-catalog of newsletters as PDFs. Every cave reference is extracted and indexed — building a searchable archive of local knowledge going back decades. Results are attributed back to the original issue.
A cave mentioned in a 1978 grotto newsletter — a name, a depth, a brief description — gets extracted and linked to the site record. The original issue remains the source. Future members searching for that cave will find the reference, with attribution. Knowledge that would otherwise sit in a box in someone's garage becomes part of the permanent record.
Creating an account takes a minute. Access is granted after a brief review.
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