A deafening silence from the Gateway team on this - not even yet another plea for interminable patience -  which would appear to be a more fundamental error in a site whose central purpose is - you guessed it - mapping records!

The error with C. psilaspis persists today 0820h.  Out of curiosity, I tried another taxon at random, Pleuroceras pseudoplatani, and - well knock me down with a feather! - the records are there and the dots are not (see attachment, where the records for NO11 and NT26 are not plotted).

I am not prepared to believe that I have stumbled at random on the only two examples of faulty mapping, so let's be clear: there is a fundamental software problem preventing the grid (that too, though I have not included the screenshot) and IMT mapping operating correctly, and there is no way that the user can tell there is an error unless they compare the map and the records.

Please sort it, and all the other problems that pervade this mess of a site.

Murdo

Yes, I know this is getting boring, but maybe tedious repetition will stimulate some urgently needed action.

Another example found in the course of routine work - Lasioglossum villosulum in NH55, the record is there, but the dot is not.  (The ID is incorrect as it happens, which is why I was looking for it.)

I am not attaching a screenshot this time - no-one has bothered to look at the previous ones, it would seem.

M.

I don't see why it should be, Charlie, and some of the records which were loaded at the same time from +- the same areas are fine.  Nor is it OSGR resolution.  The only reason the HBRG sets are featured is that these are the ones I was checking, and I could instantly see that dots were omitted.

The point is it should not happen at all, so the fact it does (even if only our sets) means there is something seriously amiss, either in the upload (apparently valid records being flagged in some way) or in the mapping.  And until the root cause is identified and sorted the whole system must be regarded as suspect.

Interesting that you have looked at the screenshots - I had assumed that if it said 'never been downloaded' it meant no-one had looked, but that is obviously not the case.

M.

Hello Murdo

This issue was due new grid references not automatically matching to their lower resolution grid squares. This has been resolved and the missing lower resolution grid squares should now appear on the maps.

Best wishes

Graham
NBN Technical Liaison Officer