Just because something like Eremaea doesn't show you the information you want
doesn't mean that it can't. The information is in there, all it needs is the
programming to display it. I believe they intend making some changes soon, but
I don't know if this includes the changes that you suggest. Have you submitted
a suggestion to them about it?
As Dave Torr mentioned, Eremaea doesn't keep precise location details for the
sites. Now that things like Google mash ups are technically simple, this is
probably something that ought to change too.
Every birder's needs are different. Twitchers with a high count need to be able
to locate THAT bird. Beginners like myself simply need to be satisfied that
the intended (family) holiday location has SOME birds or, preferably, a LOT of
birds.
Peter Shute
-----Original Message-----
From: on behalf of Paul Dodd
Sent: Mon 30/07/2007 10:24 PM
To: 'Birding-aus'
Cc:
Subject: resource for overseas and beginning birders
We're now heavy users of Eremaea - thanks Margaret and Richard Alcorn, it's
a great piece of software! The problem is that if you decide on a species
you can then look up sites that have had that species reported (and you CAN
restrict by season) but it doesn't really tell you "the best" sites to go
for a range of species. That starts to become more subjective - which is the
ideal sort of material for a book (whether printed or electronic). I have
looked at Birdpedia too, but not in as much detail - I suspect that it has
the same limitation as Eremaea - in that you need to specify a species to
get a list of sites or a specific site to get a list of species.
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