Drakensberg Caves GPS Co-ordinates

I have published a much needed update on the cave GPS data download:
www.vertical-endeavour.com/downloads/download/9-drakensberg-caves/5-gps-data-of-caves-in-the-ukhahlamba-drakensberg-park.html

The number of listed waypoints has increased from 73 to 107. Note that there are many more waypoints that could be added, but for the time being I have decided not to (for example, some unnamed shelters may simply be too unreliable to promote in this way). I also do not list rock art shelters (with a few established exceptions), or caves that are officially closed to hikers for other reasons.

I would like to issue a "recall" of the name "Dagga Planter's Cave". Please forget this name and do not use it. It was an arbitrary name I assigned to what is actually Five Star Cave, and I apologise for the confusion that the introduction of this name has caused. There have been differences of opinion as to which cave is Five Star, depending on which tradition you were taught. This has now been cleared up, and more can be read about it in the thread Which cave is Five Star Cave? . Note that this error still persists on some maps.

Several shelters and caves listed in the download file do not have official, or even widely known colloquial names. In these cases I have traditionally simply given my own name. or used names suggested by others. I would like to emphasize that these names are suggestive, and that they are open for scrutiny and should assigned other names, if already in existence, or if the new name is shown to be more appropriate. The Berg has many cases of erroneous, inappropriate and misplaced names, and given the community we have here now, I submit that we can do much better when it comes to naming things. As a step in this direction, where appropriate I have now flagged caves with the text "*suggested name*" in the comments space of the waypoint. This means the name is still open for scrutiny and wider input, in my view.

As I update various downloads, I am now also adding the official forum link in the download description text, where all relevant discussion, updates and corrections relating to the data can be posted. This particular thread is the official one for the caves download.

@MarkT: thanks for drawing my attention to this. I have now removed the <time> tag where it was present for certain waypoints from the GPX data. This should account for the behaviour you saw on Google Earth. The new version is now available on the download page.