Re: Locations - at tetrad level rather than 1 km
Hi
In my use of R6 for recording sightings and other records of birds, I have a list of about 830 named 1 km squares, the level that I decided to use for general recording.
From November 2007 until 2011 the BTO will be running fieldwork for a new winter atlas and breeding atlas combined based on selected tetrads. My wife, Anne Brenchley, is organising a North Wales Breeding Birds Atlas, that will use fieldwork methods that will be very similar to the BTO methods and she hopes that all 2000+ tetrads will be covered.
My conundrum is how to record the bird records gathered, when they will be collected at a courser grade than the locations I have established. Has anyone else dealt with this issue - and if so, how did you deal with it? I suspect that I will have to set up new locations - ie the tetrads - but will be pleased to hear what is best to do. If I do have to set up tetrad locations, I am not sure how they will link with the 'logical' place name hierarchy that I have established.
When it comes to reporting, I assume some of the issues will depend on how the data are recorded, but if I need to set up up tetrads as locations, when it comes to reports, does R6 pull out records from the tetrads searched and the 1 km squares that make up each tetrad automatically, or must tetrad and the specific 1 km squares all be listed in the search criteria?
I do hope I get a reply to this one! Thanks in anticipation.
Cheers, Ian