New Institutions Added & Map Service Now On Search Portal

[Carol Spencer]

Dear HerpNET Participants,

We now have 40 institutions in HerpNET;  Fort Hays State University in
Hays, Kansas and the Burke Museum at the University of Washington in
Seattle have joined the HerpNET consortium  and will have their servers
available on the portal soon.

Thanks to Rob Gales,  we now have a link to a mapping service available
on the data portal. If you search at
http://herpnet.digir.net/pres/PresentationServlet?action=home

and retrieve records, you can click a "View Map" button that will make
an interactive map of all of the georeferenced results that you retrieved.
(Note: If there are no georeferenced records available in your search,
then no map will appear).


For instance, you can perform this search to see a map of georeferenced
specimens from Alameda County, California:
Select all Providers

Select:
County  "contains (% for wildcards)"  Alameda%

and set  the record limit to 600 (this is at the bottom of the page)
and  hit "Submit Query"

Then click "View Map"
when the search results appear.

You will view an interactive map (from the Berkeley Natural History
Museums)  that will allow you to zoom in  and out, move around, click on
the "i" button to view the records at the bottom, select the Layers tab
on the right and change the map background to an Aerial Photo by
clicking the Update Map button, etc.

There are many things you can do. These maps can then be used to make
species distribution maps for output to a powerpoint presentation or
printer.

Thanks to Rob,

Carol


--
Carol L. Spencer, Ph.D.
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
3101 Valley Life Sciences Building
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
510-643-1620
fax 510-643-8238
atrox at berkeley.edu
http://herpnet.org