Hall2501
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For those of you who've ever had to call off a caving trip because you couldn't find the entrance to a cave, this might be worth a try if you don't mind carrying your phone on a caving trip.
Most of the cave entrance locations in the dales are available from:
http://cavemaps.org/data.htm ,in a variety of formats.
Yesterday I tried opening a .kml file with my phone (NB: downloaded to my phones internal memory first) and it gave me the option to open it with the maps.me app. Now I can see them all on an offline map on my phone, which could come in handy. Maps.me uses open source 'OpenStreetMap' data so you can download an entire map of the UK offline for free and the apps pretty robust.
The link also contains .gpx files which work with most GPS devices.
Anyways this is what it should look like after you've uploaded the cave locations to your phone:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0zxkZdXB7vUN1hUWVpEbnpBX00
Most of the cave entrance locations in the dales are available from:
http://cavemaps.org/data.htm ,in a variety of formats.
Yesterday I tried opening a .kml file with my phone (NB: downloaded to my phones internal memory first) and it gave me the option to open it with the maps.me app. Now I can see them all on an offline map on my phone, which could come in handy. Maps.me uses open source 'OpenStreetMap' data so you can download an entire map of the UK offline for free and the apps pretty robust.
The link also contains .gpx files which work with most GPS devices.
Anyways this is what it should look like after you've uploaded the cave locations to your phone:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0zxkZdXB7vUN1hUWVpEbnpBX00
