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An integral part of the Connecting Country website is the Community Web Mapping Portal which has been designed with one of our project partners, Spatial Vision**.
The Community Web Mapping Portal (CWMP) is a web mapping application where individuals and community groups can view, create and share information about their local landscape. The application is built using Google Maps technology and has the same base satellite imagery and street map information as the Google Maps website. The website also contains a preliminary version of Spatial Vision’s Map Book digital dataset as a base layer.
Users of the website can create simple point based records of sites in the landscape, enter textual information about the site and create web links to other web pages that contain further information about the site. The web application provides a place where information about the landscape can be shared and exchanged. Information that can be entered can include, but is not limited to, point locations for remnant sites, revegetation areas, records of native plants and animals, weeds, pest animals, significant sites and organisational sites. As well as entering new data, users can also search previous records if they are interested in a particular location or type of record (e.g., the CWMP has been used recently to help document and analyse known records of Chilean Needle-grass in the local area, which is a noxious weed of national significance).
The CWMP can be accessed by clicking here. A comprehensive help menu is provided for new users of the application.
** [A Melbourne-based company, Spatial Vision works at the leading edge of geospatial and information technology. They develop innovative solutions that integrate geographic information with business applications and offer unparalleled expertise in the delivery of web-based systems. Spatial Vision has accumulated significant experience in the development of land, natural resource management and applied social and economic research systems for organisations in Australia and internationally.]
