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Officious Notice: Location Names on COG Observation Forms

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Subject: Officious Notice: Location Names on COG Observation Forms
From: "Paul Fennell" <>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 05:31:23 +1100

Hello everyone

 

I am working with Steve Wallace to “tidy up” our databases so we can extract the most useful data, and to prepare it for an upgrade.

 

It would be helpful if the location of sites indicated on all future COG Observation Sheets is of the form:

Scullin 25 Pickles St, rather than 25 Pickles Scullin.  Having the leading characters as numbers makes for difficult searches sometimes.

In addition, punctuation, particularly “” and ‘’ should be avoided, as they are reserved characters in Access.

 

So the general form is:

Suburb or General Location, Street, number (or further detail) such as:

Chapman Kathner St Large Eucalypt 100m NNW dam end, rather than and NOT

“Large Eucalypt” 100m NNW dam end of Kathner St, Chapman

 

If people can submit forms with the location in this order, it will reduce the amount of work required to regularise the database.

 

Cheers

 

Paul

 

Paul Fennell

Editor Annual Bird Report

COG Databases Manager

 

026254 1804

0407105460

 

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