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Welcome to www.ProjectPlotter.com – the free site that
allows you to record, view and manage sightings.
First and foremost the site was designed to be a totally ‘open source’
community project i.e. the information it contains is freely available to
everyone and potentially anyone can add to it.
Please see the conditions of using the site below. The aim is to build an interactive, graphic depiction
of Motuihe fauna, flora and other interesting items over time!
Using the Site
To use the site is pretty straight forward. The top portion
of the site is a visual GIS map of Motuihe (zoom in and out using the + and
-). The middle part is where all the search criteria or details are
entered. The bottom part displays the results of the search
criteria.
The site is available in two formats. The default format is a ‘read only’ archive
of previously recorded items.
Information can be retrieved by anyone.
If you would like to contribute i.e. ‘write’ information to the site you
need to login.
You will need a browser that supports frames and
Adobe Flash to view this site. The site has primarily been developed
for Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 and above.
Retrieving Sightings
To get going simply press the yellow ‘Search’ button – this will
display everything (actually the first 50 records). To plot all this
information on the GIS map click the ‘Plot All’ button in the Results
section.
If you want specific sighting information click the yellow ‘>’
button in the Results section and this will highlight a single sighting.
This will enable some other buttons i.e. ‘Plot’ (plots highlighted sighting),
‘Details’ (shows the specifics in the criteria section), ‘Image’ (shows an
image of the item).
You can also search on specific criteria. For example click
the ‘Clear/Add’ button to clear any loaded details and then enter ‘Saddleback’ in
the ‘Animal, Plant or Item’ box. Clicking search will bring up all
Saddleback sightings. There are countless search combinations i.e. by
item, by date, by sub-project etc.
Recording Sightings
To record sightings you will need to login. Do this by clicking the ‘Login’ tab and then
registering with projectplotter@yahoo.com for a login and
password.
Once logged in click on the ‘Project’ tab and record your sightings
by entering information in the details or criteria section and clicking ‘Save’. Only the authors of a sighting are permitted
to edit or ‘Delete’ it.
The latitude and longitude co-ordinates can be obtained by clicking
on the GIS map or entering them yourself from a GPS (Global Positioning
System). The From Date should be entered in dd/mm/yyyy format e.g. '15/8/2006'.
The hope is that the site will add to the Motuihe experience whilst
we are chained to our desks. The results
of monitoring programs and individuals simply recording what they see will all
contribute to the success of the site so please feel free to get involved.
Acknowledgements
Firstly the
Secondly worldKit. worldKit is an easy to use and flexible
mapping application for the Web. Light
weight GIS. It's a SWF based app, configured by XML, data fed by RSS.
Stand-alone use or integration in larger projects. Please see http://worldkit.org/index.php
for further information.
Thirdly and most importantly
the registered users of the site that contribute the information that it
contains. Their input is what makes the
site what it is.
Conditions
The content of this site
(www.projectplotter.com) is being provided freely, and no kind of agreement or
contract is created between you and the owners or users of this site, the
owners of the servers upon which it is housed, individual contributors to these
pages, or project administrators, sysops or anyone else connected with this
site. You are granted a limited license to copy anything from this site; it
does not create or imply any contractual or extra contractual liability on the
part of www.projectplotter.com or any of its authors, agents, members,
organizers or other users.
The authors, agents,
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information whatsoever, at any time and without prior consent. Any undesirable information and content at
the discretion of the authors, agents, members, organizers or other users will
result in the offending author being suspended from the site and all their
information being removed. Please report
any offending information to projectplotter@yahoo.com.
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Privacy Policy
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does not expose your identity publicly. When
you edit any page you are publishing a document. This is a public act, and you
are identified publicly with that edit as its author. If you would not like to be identified by
your user name please provide a suitable pseudonym when registering.
User passwords are the only
guarantee of the integrity of a user's edit history. All users are encouraged to select strong
passwords and to never share them. No
one shall knowingly expose the password of another user to public release
either directly or indirectly.
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parties, unless you agree to release this information, or it is required by law
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