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Flora of the Isle of Wight
Anglesey Birds
Birds of The Isles of Scilly

 

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The Isle of Wight Flora

Project aims and objectives:To give an authoritative account of the current and historical status and distribution of flowering plants, mosses, liverworts, lichens, and stoneworts on The Isle of Wight.

The Isle of Wight Flora was based on existing data already inputted into AditSite (about 140,000 records) but was supplemented with data from other sources supplied in spreadsheet format (Microsoft Excel).

The Isle of Wight Flora
David Allan, Colin Pope, Lorna Snow
ISBN: 1904349285

Anglesey Birds

Project aims and objectives:To create a comprehensive Atlas of Anglesey Birds using historical and current data.

The records for the Anglesey Birds Atlas were originally created from tetrad based breeding bird data (120 species, 25 tetrads) supplied as an ascii file by the BTO. This was loaded using a custom routine supplied by the AditSite support team. Another large dataset was also available as a Microsoft Word document, and again this data was structured and loaded with the help of AditSite support.

Birds of Anglesey (Adar Môn)
Peter Hope Jones, Paul Whalley
Phillip Snow (Illustrator), Steve Culley (Illustrator), Hugh Knott (Illustrator), Ken Owen (Translator)
ISBN: 0954735803

Birds of The Isles of Scilly

Project aims and objectives:The Isles of Scilly contain some of the most popular and exciting birding sites in the whole of Britain. AditSite user Peter Robinson identified an obvious gap in the knowledge of ornithologists, and set about producing an authoritative avifauna.

Birds of the Isles of Scilly
Peter Robinson
ISBN: 0713660376

The Challenge for AditSite

AditSite had an existing facility for mapping species using different symbols to represent pre/post date sightings (date classes). It was possible to produce an atlas using this method but was proving laborious for a particularly large species master list.

A new automated atlas production function was added to the program. Once the required species (or entire list) has been selected the user can now automate the entire process. Each atlas page can be saved to a file ready for the publisher or can be incorporated into another document. You can even run in a semi-automatic mode which allows for minor changes to (say) map captions, or to use the copy/paste facility provided by the Windows clipboard.

Above is a sample screen showing the AditSite program preparing to generate a sequence of plotted maps.

The Publisher's requirements

The atlas facilities of AditSite are not just related to time saving automation but extend to providing special formatting for map lines, backgrounds, symbols and text - all designed to meet the needs of your publishers.

All these Atlas Production Features are now available in the standard version of AditSite.

See Birds of The Isles of Scilly at Christopher Helm Ornithology

See The Isle of Wight Flora at Dovecote Press

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