The Gumboots Perspective

Community projects have

• Local connections• Keen outdoor people• Species distribution data• Deep understanding of local

situations and a historic perspective

Community projects grapple with• Reluctance to do office work• Records scattered • Little knowledge of data

management• Few national guidelines for

collecting data• Knowing what data needs

passing on to the next level• Ownership of the data and

acknowledgement

Community

DistrictRegional

NZ NGOsNational

Sharing data

Private information

Held within firewalls of each organisation, some published records

DOC, MBI, Statistics NZ, Biodiversity Stack, PFNZ, NatureWatch >>GBIF

Fragmented records

Reporting standards agreed, data shared

Data used atnational level to direct

best outcomes

The data revolution for communities

• Online information – government data is available, free from MfE, LINZ, Koordinates, LRIS

• Make maps using this data – free software

What MAIN Trust does…We help!

‘Pest Mapper’ – analyse trap catches

‘Pest Mapper’ – analyse stoat catches

Stoat catch, 2012 by month

Now ‘one touch’ ….Free apps to use your mobile phone to take photos, fill in a form, and track your routes, even in deep bush

See our website for examples of mapping tools and projects‘Easy-As’ video of data entry for pest trappers http://youtu.be/MzRLmaGBHXU

It took 21/2 minutes to enter this trapline information. The data meets national standards and can be downloaded as maps, graphs, raw data, and analysed summaries.

MAIN Trust NZ Charitable Trust

Online pest–data recording and mapping systems for community use.

Assist groups set up mapping systems on their own computers to store and share project information.

MAIN Trust can assist with funding applications

www.main.net.nz main@main.net.nz