Free wildlife recording and mapping software
AditSite
- For ecological, biological and wildlife recording and mapping - simply the best
- The choice for all discerning professionals and amateurs alike
- AditSite packs in all the features you need, while the extensive data import and export facilities ensure that you can integrate your data with everyone working in your field
Recording
- Record using comprehensive species lists free with AditSite (over 60 lists, 150,000+ species, to date)
e.g. birds, insects, wild flowers, mammals, lace wings, spiders, RSPB bird list,
butterflies and moths, mosses/liverworts/lichens, molluscs, galls, dragonflies,
BSBI complete, mycology, reptiles, amphibians, NBN complete, coloeptera etc. - Add your own species list and share them with other users; add/amend items in the existing lists, or request a list direct from Adit Limited
- Automatically replicate fields
- Rapid search for selecting species - code, shortname, partial name etc.
- Create customised data entry screen
- Flexible entry dates (e.g. year only)
- Choose your preferred count system (e.g. DAFOR, DOMIN, Presence/Absence, Zero)
- Define counts for types of records
- Set up record cards for bulk entry of counts for several species at once
- Geographical location by grid reference (OS, Lat and Long, UTM), click on a map, enter manually or add position via GPS
- Add your own user-defined fields for each species list and subsequently for data selection and reporting
- Link notes, documents and pictures (including instant internet picture search) to certain records
- Restrict others from having access to sensitive data
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Reporting
- Select data using the standard Adit tools, customise reports or by selecting data plotted on a map
- Use or modify the built-in reports, e.g. Data list, Item list, Items per site, Item range, Diary, Monthly maximums, Items at site, Query (advanced users can build their own SQL queries)
- Create your own user-defined Reports with the report generator - by Species, Date, Reference, Recorder and Site
- Quick Graph, Quick Sort, Quick Search on any column of data
- Automatic scheduling
- Create web pages from your data
- Create user-defined Report Groups to link species of special interest (from different groups if you want). Use the report group to aid data input
- Link sites together to form larger reporting areas
- Drill down to complete details of individual records
- Hyper-indexing on all columns - click on an item in the index to find that item
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Data import and export
- Exchange data with other AditSite users (or collate data centrally) - all records in a selection or just records added since the last report
- Export data to your favourite word-processor, database or spreadsheet
- Use Tab, Comma, Flatfile, Clipboard to export
- Paste Maps and Graphs directly into your text, or use industry-standard reporting tools for additional access to the data (including XML format)
- Export data via the BSBI data transfer standard
- Export data to GIS, MapInfo, GIS Arcview, NBN Gateway
- Export data to DMAP via the integrated link
- Import from Levana, Transect Walker
- Export data to your handheld (AditTrec)
- Two way links to your GPS to collect recordings and to pilot you back to key locations
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Plotting
- Present data on maps in as simple or complex a manner as you like, from within AditSite (using AditMap, our map building package) or DMAP
- Plot Sightings for any area even if you do not have a map
- Automatic size to fit page for printing
- Pre-post date split plotting for data analysis
- Atlas printing system
- Use the built-in graphing facilities to explain trends and make key evaluations, e.g. 2 and 5 year comparison, species comparison, statistical analysis, species population analysis, seasonal or migratory assessment
