ACE Nature's Point Sightings App

Do you want to be able to set up sites for monitoring sightings of species with the ability to do scientific point counts, as well as engage visitors in species identification?

Our browser-based smartphone App enables scientists and ecologists to carry out 5 minute point counts of species seen and/or heard. It also uses the fixed point photography photos to enable citizen scientists to annotate the photos with species seen.

User Guide

Setting up a site

As the App works within a browser, and therefore it needs reasonable connectivity to 4/5G data

Here’ a link to the point sightings app including the option to operate in “setup” mode.

https://wendlingbeck.wildmap.org/psa.html?loc=846&setup=1

It will show my fictitious “Test location” to start with - ignore that bit!

To add a location, switch to the map - it should show your current position. There is a “+” button in the top right corner of the screen - tapping this will allow you add a new location at your current position.

I recommend using the Fixed Point Photo app to take a photo at the same location. When those photos are uploaded to the server, we can link them up with the PSA locations.

Having added the location, the map will show “Switch to ” - click on this to open the PSA at the new location. When you do switch, some text will revert to the default and no image will be shown. That will all be sorted by a bit of admin on the server side.

As I have only just implemented the functionality to add locations, it hasn’t had any field testing - it would be great if you could give it a try and let me know how it goes - I apologise in advance for the problems!

I am anticipating quite a lot of changes to be made for the various audiences for this app, so it will be good to start testing it.