Copyright

CaveMaps.org encourages the free distribution and sharing of cave surveys, whilst being careful to respect the wishes of copyright owners.

The original content on this site is licenced under a liberal

Creative Commons Licence (CC-BY).

Creative Commons License

The Google maps and satellite imagery are subject to Google's standard terms of use.

All the cave surveys listed on this site are subject to the copyright restrictions of their respective authors.

Some caving clubs have released all or some of their back catalogues of cave surveys under the following license

Creative Commons Licence (CC-BY-NC).

Creative Commons License

This has enabled full resolution scans of their surveys to be included on this site. It is hoped that other clubs will follow this lead. See the Credits page for a full list of clubs.

If you own the copyright to any relevent cave surveys that you would like to see on this site then please email me.

If you own the copyright to any surveys that have been erroneously reproduced on this site without your permission then please email me, preferably to grant the missing permission.