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Why duplicate the efforts of eBIRD? eBIRD already has these capabilities. Go to:<http://www.ebird.org/content/>http://www.ebird.org/content/ You can do the same thing on eBIRD and contribute to citizen science. Bill At 01:51 PM 3/7/2006, Watson, Alexander Robert wrote: >Google has recently announced the release of their mapping >technology to the public. It would now be possible to post your >sighting using a map interface, like Google Maps. Think something >like this, only birds: > >http://www.mywikimap.com/?tag=regular&zip=56001&radius=10 ><http://www.mywikimap.com/> > >Sightings could be submitted via a form on the page. Once entered, >each sighting would be represented by a red marker, visible to >anyone. Sightings could be filtered by species and/or genera, as >well as zip code. This is a very powerful tool that could quickly >allow anyone to find the exact location of a sighting anywhere in >the state at a single glance. This would be free to put together >and implement on the mou site. If anyone thinks this might be a >useful tool, let us know. > > >Alex Watson >Tom Rogers > >_______________________________________________ >mou-net mailing list >mou-...@cbs.umn.edu >http://cbs.umn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mou-net O. William Bruins 1538 11th Avenue NE Rochester, MN 55906-4213 wbru...@earthlink.net 507-281-1607 - home 507-261-6837 - cell (not always turned on) --=====================_11294984==.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" <html> <body> Why duplicate the efforts of eBIRD? eBIRD already has these capabilities. Go to:<a href="http://www.ebird.org/content/"> http://www.ebird.org/content/</a> <br><br> You can do the same thing on eBIRD and contribute to citizen science.<br><br> Bill<br><br> <br> At 01:51 PM 3/7/2006, Watson, Alexander Robert wrote:<br> <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Google has recently announced the release of their mapping technology to the public. It would now be possible to post your sighting using a map interface, like Google Maps. Think something like this, only birds:<br> <br> <a href="http://www.mywikimap.com/?tag=regular&zip=56001&radius=10" eudora="autourl"> http://www.mywikimap.com/?tag=regular&zip=56001&radius=10</a> <<a href="http://www.mywikimap.com/" eudora="autourl"> http://www.mywikimap.com/</a>> <br> <br> Sightings could be submitted via a form on the page. Once entered, each sighting would be represented by a red marker, visible to anyone. Sightings could be filtered by species and/or genera, as well as zip code. This is a very powerful tool that could quickly allow anyone to find the exact location of a sighting anywhere in the state at a single glance. This would be free to put together and implement on the mou site. If anyone thinks this might be a useful tool, let us know.<br> <br> <br> Alex Watson<br> Tom Rogers<br><br> _______________________________________________<br> mou-net mailing list<br> mou-...@cbs.umn.edu<br> <a href="http://cbs.umn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mou-net" eudora="autourl"> http://cbs.umn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mou-net</a></blockquote> <x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep> O. William Bruins<br> 1538 11th Avenue NE<br> Rochester, MN 55906-4213<br> wbru...@earthlink.net<br> 507-281-1607 - home<br> 507-261-6837 - cell (not always turned on)<br> </body> </html> --=====================_11294984==.ALT--