Mapping our nature
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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 [email protected]