Latitudes and also longitudes

["Philip Veerman" <>]

Indeed that was Ian Baird's idea too when he was GBS Coordinator before me, in the mid to late 1980s when the GBS database did not exist. It was Ian who first built the beginnings of the GBS Observer database on DBase that eventually became part of the GBS database on MS Access. I did not carry it through, as my priority was to compile the data and link it to a site and observer (as previously data from a site on a year had no means of connection to other data from the same site on another year.) Of course technology has advanced and now with GPS is it so much easier to obtain these data. I would suggest though that such information of itself is pointless without being used as a tool to, for example, measure distance to features of importance such as Canberra Nature Park, small local reserves etc. All things I have included in my GBS Reports as future directions to investigate. I guess it will be interesting to see whether having information to this level of detail tells us anything new about the distribution of the birds.

 

Philip