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Project aims and objectives
Over the years, the Adit team has been approached by a number of organisations regarding an atlas facility, and this has resulted in AditSite being constantly improved to accommodate the requirements of wildlife and ecological recorders
The Isle of Wight Flora
- 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
Anglesey Birds
- To create a comprehensive atlas of Anglesey birds using historical and current data
Birds of The Isles of Scilly
- To produce an authoritative avifauna of the Isles of Scilly
TopThe client's existing system
- 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 on a spreadsheet
- Most of 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. Another large dataset was presented as a Microsoft Word document
- Records for the Isles of Scilly were already stored in AditSite, making the conversion to an atlas fairly straightforward
TopSoftware Development
- AditSite already had an existing facility for mapping species using different symbols to represent pre-date and post-date sightings (date classes)
- It was therefore possible to produce an atlas using this method but users were finding it laborious for a particularly large species master list
- A new automated Atlas Production Function was added to the program
- All data sets for these three clients were loaded from the various different sources using a custom routine, supplied by the AditSite support team
- 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
- Run the Atlas Function in a semi-automatic mode which allows for minor changes to map captions etc
- Use the copy/paste facility provided by the Windows clipboard in the semi-automatic mode
- Meet your publisher's requirements with the use of special formatting for map lines, backgrounds, symbols and text
- All these Atlas Production Features are now available in the standard version of AditSite
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The Isle of Wight Flora
by David Allan, Colin Pope, Lorna Snow
published by Dovecote Press
ISBN: 978-1904349280
Birds of Anglesey (Adar Môn)
by Peter Hope Jones, Paul Whalley
Illustrated by Phillip Snow, Steve Culley, Hugh Knott
Ken Owen (welsh translator)
published by Menter Môn
ISBN: 978-0954735807
Birds of the Isles of Scilly
by Peter Robinson
published by Christopher Helm Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 9780713660371
