Paul, could you please send an item to the COG newsletter on this issue. Send to to arrive no later than Wednesday 31st October.
Chris
From: Paul Fennell [
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Subject: [canberrabirds] Officious Notice: Location Names on COG Observation Forms
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
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