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December 2007 - Record breaking challenge

Adit supports the Biggest Twitch

• Alan Davies and Ruth Miller will be using AditSite to record bird sightings, when they set off on January 2nd 2008, for their
  attempt to see more bird species in a calendar year than anyone has ever done before!



• They will be using a checklist based on the Clements 6th edition, sub-divided into continents for ease of use, during their exciting travels



• Everyone at Adit would like to wish them the very best of luck in the coming year and every success with their record-breaking challenge

Product news

• New species list for birds - Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 6th edition is now a standard list on AditSite

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November 2007 - Product News

New product - AditWeb

• AditWeb - the web-based recording and mapping system



• Save your records for Common Birds, Mammals and Butterflies or purchase other species lists to use

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October 2007 - Product News

AditSite

• Significant improvements in speed have been achieved for plotting large data sets



• New species list for Shield Bugs

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August 2007 - Product News

AditSite

• Now supports multiple species lists in AditTrec



• New import to help Recorder 3 users upgrade to AditSite

AditSync

• Support for multiple species lists in AditTrec and partial support for very long lists

AditForm

• Facility to add new field type for 'Likert Scale' and 'Video'



• User can now download forms to a storage card on the Pocket PC rather than main memory

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June 2007 - Product News

AditSite

• New facility to create report groups directly from displayed data



• Support for formatting of large picture-based maps for AditTrec



• Option to update single species names to correct spelling mistakes, or in line with name changes



• Option to export 'features' as multiple records

AditForm

• Facility to add new field types for 'Time', 'Display File', 'Camera' and 'Sound

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March 2007 - Adit at The Cheshire Recorders Conference

Workshop - Using a Pocket PC to identify and record wildlife

• Adit was invited by Steve McWilliam of rECOrd to present a workshop to a small number of delegates at The Recorders Conference 2007, on the use of handheld computers in the identification and recording of species in the field



• The 'small' workshop attracted considerable interest, and most people got a chance to see what can be done on a Pocket PC with built-in GPS and an idea of how the Adit handheld software integrates with desktop systems



• There were some useful suggestions for additional features in AditTrec. Many thanks to those who contributed ideas

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March 2007 - WildMap at The Lost Gardens of Heligan

Building Interactive Maps for Handheld Devices

• Adit has been working closely with the WildKey team on a new product - WildMap



• The concept is fairly simple and allows users to be guided around visitor attractions using a GPS enabled Pocket PC



• For such a simple concept, there have been enough technical issues to keep it interesting!



• The product had its first public outing at The Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall

WildMap

• The Adit team starts by building a map of the site using AditMap and data from Ordnance Survey



• The base map layer is overlayed with polygons to give a more attractive look and feel



• Geo-referenced points of interest (which can include text, sounds, individual images and slide shows) are added to the map using a desktop module



• The whole data set is then downloaded to a number of handheld devices



• As the user walks around the grounds, the handheld shows them where they are, and what points of interest are nearby

Request further information about WildMap

Find out more about WildKey

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November 2006 - Adit at the NBN conference

• Adit was able to further raise the profile of handheld recording at the NBN conference



• There was considerable interest from delegates in the Adit handheld software - AditTrec, AditForm, AditSync, AditWalk etc