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Project aims and objectives
- Adit was approached by a national conservation organisation who wanted to be able to identify volunteers who lived within a given radius of rare species sites
- They also wanted to be able to contact owners of land adjacent to a range of sites where a particular species had been identified
TopThe client's existing system
Prior to the use of AditSite, the names and addresses of all volunteers and landowners were held in a Microsoft Access database
TopSoftware Development
- In order to input all the contact details of volunteers, post codes were used to derive approximate grid references, which were confirmed or corrected by the volunteers to create an accurate dataset
- The volunteers were then loaded into AditSite as "Recorders"
- For the landowners, grid references were obtained by using AditSite to plot the relevant site information for each landowner and then reading back a 'central' point
- The Adit support team added "Landowners" as a new data-type associated with sites and this new feature has now become part of the standard site related data
- To identify landowners or volunteers and their relationship to a particular site, AditSite
can plot them on a map
- Once plotted, they can be selected and a "pop-up" will display the selected records, with full "drill-down" to the data held on individuals or organisations
- Pop-up and drill-down: this original AditSite feature is the simplest way to select records based on location
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TopData Protection Act
The recording of personal data can come within the scope of the Data Protection Act. Although the storage of addresses and contact information, provided by individuals, is effectively outside the scope of this act, organisations planning to store additional personal information should refer to the relevant legislation before proceeding.
