Banter 85: 03Sep25 Digitally Mapping a Nature Reserve Project Graham Stoddart-Stones

Graham demonstrates digital mapping (using Parish Online) of a Nature Reserve project - how to set it up with layers and features, print, generate Lat/Long co-ordinates, add attachments

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Meeting Summary:

Sep 03, 2025 11:50 AM London ID: 834 5460 8536

Quick recap

The group focused on energy solutions and mapping technology, with David Morgan-Jones proposing a deep dive into challenging areas of energy solutions and Graham demonstrating Parish Online for nature project mapping. The session concluded with a detailed walkthrough of Parish Online's features, including mapping tools, documentation capabilities, and funding sources for a community pond project, while emphasizing the platform's potential for community engagement and organization.

Next steps

David Morgan-Jones to send Graham the link to the university study on retrofitting payback periods.
Graham to contact the local community energy center representative to arrange a banter session on air source heat pumps and retrofitting.
Graham to notify attendees when the recording of the session is available on the knowledge base.

Summary

Banter Session Planning Discussion

The group discussed upcoming banter sessions, with Graham inviting ideas for presentations in October and beyond. David Morgan-Jones suggested a new approach for banter sessions, though the details were not specified. The conversation ended with greetings to late arrivals and an open invitation for ideas on future sessions.

Energy Solutions and Retrofit Strategies

David Morgan-Jones proposed a deep dive into challenging areas of energy solutions, particularly air source heat pumps and retrofitting options, emphasizing the need to evaluate cost-effectiveness and carbon reduction. Graham agreed and mentioned connecting them with a local community energy expert and sharing a university study on retrofit payback periods. The discussion shifted to a live presentation on using Parish Online for mapping nature projects, with Graham demonstrating how to set up and use the system for community planning.

Nature Reserve Layer Management Demo

Graham demonstrated how to create and manage a nature reserve layer in Parish Online, including copying existing data, adding features, and taking baseline photographs. He showed how to create polygon shapes for ponds, trees, hedgerows, and wildflower beds, with specific dimensions and locations. The team discussed the importance of proper documentation and recording of changes, with Graham noting that all actions were being recorded for future reference.

Parish Online Record Styling Demo

Graham demonstrated how to edit and style records in Parish Online, focusing on creating and coloring different wildflower beds. He showed how to add a "class" field with predefined options for ponds, hedgerows, and wildflower beds, and then applied styling to color-code these features. Graham explained how to adjust the size and color of labels and classes, and he emphasized the ease of editing records in Parish Online.

Digital Mapping for Pond Projects

Graham demonstrated how to use digital mapping tools to create and share precise coordinates for digging ponds, showing participants how to generate GPS coordinates and print detailed maps with legends and coordinates. He then shared photos of the actual pond-digging project in progress, highlighting the creation of a nature reserve and the positive impact on biodiversity, including the discovery of brown banded caterpillars. Graham explained that digital mapping enables coordination with neighboring parishes to create wildlife corridors, and he showed how to add photos to specific locations on the map for documentation purposes.

Digital Mapping Tools Demonstration

Graham demonstrated how to use digital mapping tools, including adding attachments and creating layers, and explained the process of geolocation and finding systems. He showed how to overlay different map layers, such as GPS coordinates and photographs, to create accurate representations of the landscape. Graham also discussed the use of public maps and drone photography to further enhance mapping accuracy.

Community Pond Project Funding Update

Graham discussed the funding sources for a community project involving the creation of two ponds. The Long Sutton Parish Council provided land and £1,000 for the environment committee to use as needed. Local farmers loaned equipment like a digger and turf cutter, while the Somerset Wildlife Trust provided signs and signposts. The Flag (Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group) offered £3,000 for the pond, and Wessex Water provided £1,000 for digging (converted to purchase of seeds, plants, and sundries). Graham mentioned that the project had been well-received by volunteers and the community, with a lively WhatsApp group. The next steps involve planning a path around the ponds to accommodate dog walkers while preserving wildlife.

Parish Online Platform Features Demo

Graham demonstrated several key features of Parish Online, including Public Maps which allows content to be automatically published to parish websites, and geolocation capabilities that enable users to upload photos and data directly to the system using their mobile devices. He showed how the platform serves as an effective filing system, allowing users to easily access and manage documents related to various parish facilities and operations, all covered by the annual subscription fee. The demonstration particularly highlighted its potential for school children's use in documenting local features like bus stops, and its ability to store and organize information about village assets like the village hall and its facilities.

Chat:

00:07:33 Jenny Barna, Ditchling, Sussex: Hello

00:15:33 Allan Wilson Edgmond Shropshire: Hi people, I believe this is a useful site for stuff taking place that is not too deep in definition and helps sorting out acronyms that appear https://www.edie.net/jargon-buster/

00:15:36 David Newman: For Retrofit, Ask Cosy Homes Oxfordshire and the Low Carbon Hub.

00:17:26 David Morgan-Jones: UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering

00:18:10 Joanne Stone (Shiplake): Replying to "UCL Institute for En..."this link doesn’t work for me

00:20:32 Allan Wilson Edgmond Shropshire: Replying to "UCL Institute for En..."It maybe because I subscribe to their email that I have access and take it for granted sorry for the errant message

00:21:06 David Morgan-Jones: Replying to "UCL Institute for En..."Apologies the link is dead; will try and track down the paper

00:29:42 Allan Wilson Edgmond Shropshire: Sorry people, Have got to go something unexpectedly has cropped up.

00:47:11 Joanne Stone (Shiplake): Daft question; do all parishes have parish online or is it something that we must subscribe to, how much does it cost. Answer: each parish buys its own copy, pricing is here (scroll nearly all the way to the bottom, find your parish) - taking an instant account gets you a permanent 10% discount; or you can get a 3-month free trial (select appropriate button)

00:50:12 David Newman: Can you export the co-ordinatos of a polygon boundary (e.g. in KML)? Answer = Yes (sort of). Right-click on a point, and select Copy, Extent: that gives the bottom-left and top-right coordinates of the page as you see it, and sending those coordinates to anyone else enables them to see the same underlying Ordnance Survey page - however, they will not have your item/boundary on it

00:55:34 Garry Ford: You should have got some money from the golf club.

00:57:22 Sheila Churchward: Can we use our mobile phones to add photos with geolocation to the layers? Answer = Yes

00:58:07 David Morgan-Jones: This is based on the original article that has now "vanished" https://www.renewableenergyhub.co.uk/main/insulation/insulation-cost-and-savings

00:59:09 Sheila Churchward: there are loads of volunteers for Green Spaces Group but I am looking for volunteers for the Environment Group which looks at policy, funding, etc, etc

01:05:09 Sheila Churchward: And all this filing is covered by our annual payment? Anser = Yes, no extras ever charged

01:06:17 Ken Huggins: very helpful thanks!

01:06:35 Mahrukh Awan: Thank you for the great knowledge.

Speech-to-text for AI Search:

137 00:12:37.820 --> 00:12:45.039 David Morgan-Jones: Graham, can I just, throw some ideas at you in terms of banter sessions, but in a… perhaps doing it in a slightly different way?

138 00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:47.129 Graham Stoddart-Stones: By all means.

139 00:12:49.430 --> 00:13:00.900 David Morgan-Jones: it would be really helpful to do some… a deep dive into some of the more, challenging areas. So, for example, it would be really interesting, to have a…

140 00:13:01.780 --> 00:13:06.459 David Morgan-Jones: Pretty robust conversation about air source heat pumps, for example.

141 00:13:06.890 --> 00:13:09.459 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Yes. And what are the alternatives?

142 00:13:12.790 --> 00:13:25.110 David Morgan-Jones: people make an assumption that it's the… it's the… it's the nirvana to, gas. But I'm… I remain utterly unconvinced, and it would be really interesting to have something on that.

143 00:13:25.390 --> 00:13:30.280 David Morgan-Jones: The other thing would be, also, another area that would be really useful is

144 00:13:30.380 --> 00:13:34.189 David Morgan-Jones: Even if it's a fairly short session on,

145 00:13:34.520 --> 00:13:39.940 David Morgan-Jones: retrofitting. Yeah. In other words, what, what retrofitting, what…

146 00:13:40.630 --> 00:13:43.350 David Morgan-Jones: Really makes the biggest difference.

147 00:13:43.350 --> 00:13:50.189 Graham Stoddart-Stones: You know, where should we invest our money in terms of doing the retrofit? Yep. With some of it just being…

148 00:13:50.190 --> 00:14:00.170 David Morgan-Jones: Stuff you'd only do if you were completely remodeling your house, because the benefit is there, but very small, and certainly not worth the cost.

149 00:14:01.730 --> 00:14:12.419 Graham Stoddart-Stones: I think those are wonderful ideas, David, and as it happens, I've got a bloke here who will be delighted to speak to us. He's, runs our local community energy center.

150 00:14:12.630 --> 00:14:26.529 Graham Stoddart-Stones: He's got a whole, solar PV farm all set up. He's thinking about a wind turbine, and he comes around and does audits of your house and tells you what retrofit you should have. So, I will be delighted to put him on.

151 00:14:26.980 --> 00:14:30.000 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Because I think it's a great… you've got two great ideas.

152 00:14:30.230 --> 00:14:41.540 David Morgan-Jones: There's actually a very good study, I'll send you a link if you remind me, that was done by, one of the big universities, which sent out, an analysis on…

153 00:14:41.670 --> 00:14:43.710 David Morgan-Jones: What, what…

154 00:14:44.060 --> 00:14:53.120 David Morgan-Jones: what's really worth doing, what's not worth doing, in terms of payback, period. So, you could, link him in with that, and that would be really useful.

155 00:14:53.600 --> 00:14:56.669 Graham Stoddart-Stones: It would be useful. Davey, would you please send me the link to that?

156 00:14:56.970 --> 00:14:57.819 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Yeah, yeah.

157 00:14:58.180 --> 00:15:00.670 Graham Stoddart-Stones: I was reminding you, you asked me to remind you, so I am.

158 00:15:00.670 --> 00:15:03.880 David Morgan-Jones: I'll have to see if I can find it.

159 00:15:03.880 --> 00:15:06.610 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Alright, well, it's… Could I just…

160 00:15:06.610 --> 00:15:09.250 Cllr.Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: Don't make a point to David.

161 00:15:09.710 --> 00:15:15.460 Cllr.Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: I think that the whole reason for going with, heat pumps, etc.

162 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:19.619 Cllr.Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: is to, reduce our CO2.

163 00:15:19.880 --> 00:15:23.229 Cllr.Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: And the payback period

164 00:15:23.790 --> 00:15:31.510 Cllr.Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: is of interest to the person who's actually got to pay for it, but it's not the primary driver, as far as I can see.

165 00:15:31.510 --> 00:15:32.390 Allan Wilson Edgmond Shropshire: Correct.

166 00:15:32.390 --> 00:15:42.710 David Morgan-Jones: Stuart, I know, I absolutely get that, but the reality is that the normal Mark 1 human being couldn't give us stuff about CO2, but they do give a lot about how much it's going to cost.

167 00:15:42.740 --> 00:15:50.789 Cllr.Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: Yeah, I quite agree with that, but yeah, no, again, I think the main driver is climate change.

168 00:15:50.790 --> 00:15:51.579 David Morgan-Jones: Oh, yeah, yeah.

169 00:15:51.580 --> 00:15:52.750 Cllr.Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: People's pockets.

170 00:15:52.750 --> 00:15:56.950 David Morgan-Jones: I'm absolutely with you, but the problem is that most people will not buy into that.

171 00:15:57.890 --> 00:16:06.379 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Well, there's a couple of links you've generated already, in the chat, David, from your comments, so hopefully the ball is now rolling.

172 00:16:06.500 --> 00:16:15.609 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And I will now, press on, because, we're past the witching hour of 5 minutes, Grace, so let's go.

173 00:16:15.750 --> 00:16:18.190 Graham Stoddart-Stones: It's a bit of a… what's the word?

174 00:16:19.220 --> 00:16:21.500 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Strange mixture today.

175 00:16:21.880 --> 00:16:30.359 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Because I am… Not in the right place. We need to go there, and we need to go.

176 00:16:40.580 --> 00:16:43.120 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Bear with me a second, or shall I justify myself.

177 00:17:00.310 --> 00:17:02.920 Graham Stoddart-Stones: I've got all the photographs in the way, there we go.

178 00:17:26.069 --> 00:17:37.190 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Well, I was going to say to everybody is that it's going to be a live presentation today, and live presentations are always the one thing that you're told to never, ever, ever get into. So…

179 00:17:37.570 --> 00:17:40.459 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Be prepared for shocks.

180 00:17:41.210 --> 00:17:49.780 Graham Stoddart-Stones: What I'll be doing is most of the work in Paris Online, but there is somewhere, which I'm just seeking.

181 00:17:50.120 --> 00:17:55.510 Graham Stoddart-Stones: a presentation, which will be… should be there, but I can't find it.

182 00:17:56.210 --> 00:17:58.460 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Which tells us what we're doing.

183 00:18:05.900 --> 00:18:09.909 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And I apologize for this. Let me see if I can just shut everything else down.

184 00:18:14.890 --> 00:18:15.610 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Well…

185 00:18:16.020 --> 00:18:25.010 Graham Stoddart-Stones: We'll do the presentation, and I'll do the… sorry, what was my presentation off the top of my head whilst I remember it. So,

186 00:18:25.330 --> 00:18:30.159 Graham Stoddart-Stones: What we have in, my old parish in Somerset.

187 00:18:30.390 --> 00:18:34.920 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Is a nature project that started completely from scratch.

188 00:18:34.970 --> 00:18:52.429 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And we had a discussion about 4 weeks ago from the guy in charge of it, who was telling us how they got going, how they got the ideas, how they got the support for it. What we've actually got now is the actual nature reserve being started.

189 00:18:52.440 --> 00:19:04.580 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And I thought it would be interesting to people to see how you can track it, or even plan it in a mapping system. I happen to use Parish Online, but

190 00:19:04.630 --> 00:19:11.460 Graham Stoddart-Stones: That wonderful line you get from… I'm sorry, I haven't a clue. There are other products available.

191 00:19:11.880 --> 00:19:16.909 Graham Stoddart-Stones: But we're doing it in parish online today, because that's what many of the councils use.

192 00:19:17.580 --> 00:19:23.289 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So… What I'm going to be showing you today is…

193 00:19:23.740 --> 00:19:28.079 Graham Stoddart-Stones: how you actually set up a project in Paris Online.

194 00:19:28.080 --> 00:19:44.130 Graham Stoddart-Stones: We're actually going to be doing it, as you can sit and watch in awe or exasperation, depending upon your attitude. And, hopefully at the end of it, we'll have something that will show you, A, what you can be doing in your communities, and B,

195 00:19:44.420 --> 00:19:51.270 Graham Stoddart-Stones: some of the ideas I hope I'll be presenting will rub off, for those of you who are using digital mapping systems.

196 00:19:51.670 --> 00:20:01.110 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, let me just log in to start with, and the sharp-eyed amongst you will have noticed that I log in with a parish council

197 00:20:01.520 --> 00:20:17.929 Graham Stoddart-Stones: log in, because there are bookmarks in Parish Online, which are specific to the user. So if you create a whole bunch of bookmarks, nobody else can use them, because they aren't you. But if you log in as a parish counsellor.

198 00:20:18.050 --> 00:20:31.810 Graham Stoddart-Stones: or as THE parish councillor, if you will, then your bookmarks are visible to everybody else who logs in on the same login. So I just mentioned that as a tip. In passing, it's a multi-user system, and it doesn't matter if you all log in with the same name.

199 00:20:32.370 --> 00:20:42.260 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, the first thing I was going to show you is that, the space that we were given in Long Sutton, and this is Long Sutton here.

200 00:20:42.450 --> 00:20:44.319 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Came from…

201 00:20:44.770 --> 00:20:50.929 Graham Stoddart-Stones: A parish allotment that was only used as a field that was leased to a farmer to create hay.

202 00:20:51.260 --> 00:20:54.770 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And so if I come down to the allotments.

203 00:20:56.430 --> 00:20:58.289 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And I can show that to you.

204 00:20:59.390 --> 00:21:00.669 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And it's this one.

205 00:21:01.410 --> 00:21:06.539 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And the first thing I thought was, well, there's a nice space, it's all laid out,

206 00:21:06.740 --> 00:21:14.389 Graham Stoddart-Stones: rather than recreate that myself, let me just make a copy of it so that I'm saving myself some work.

207 00:21:14.700 --> 00:21:22.490 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, to do that, I first start off by creating a new layer, which will be the one that we copy to.

208 00:21:24.480 --> 00:21:27.040 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, it's going to be a new polygon layer.

209 00:21:27.160 --> 00:21:29.079 Graham Stoddart-Stones: We're gonna create a new layer.

210 00:21:29.830 --> 00:21:35.740 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And it's going to be called something like Nature… We should have…

211 00:21:36.300 --> 00:21:38.609 Graham Stoddart-Stones: I'm gonna just call it polygon Fuck.

212 00:21:39.270 --> 00:21:41.290 Graham Stoddart-Stones: reference peripheral populations.

213 00:21:42.520 --> 00:21:51.890 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And we'll go into here, and we'll select a polygon, And we'll say it's… Demonstrating.

214 00:21:52.980 --> 00:21:53.780 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Sure.

215 00:21:54.570 --> 00:21:55.420 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Shiv.

216 00:21:57.720 --> 00:22:02.590 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And then, we'll create a couple of data columns, So, one…

217 00:22:02.820 --> 00:22:03.700 Allan Wilson Edgmond Shropshire: 2?

218 00:22:03.910 --> 00:22:06.760 Graham Stoddart-Stones: The second one we'll call just date.

219 00:22:08.930 --> 00:22:10.780 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And we'll make it a date field.

220 00:22:12.930 --> 00:22:13.990 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And

221 00:22:14.620 --> 00:22:24.350 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Hugh perhaps had mentioned, as we're rolling along, this is all being recorded, so you'll all have access to the recording later, if anyone wants to see how we did this.

222 00:22:24.900 --> 00:22:28.160 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, I've now created a new layer.

223 00:22:28.490 --> 00:22:39.569 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And this is what's called a parish layer. In Parish Online, everything you create yourself is in the parish layers, and they very helpfully always put your new layer

224 00:22:39.740 --> 00:22:44.610 Graham Stoddart-Stones: right down at the bottom of the list of other layers that you've created. So here's our new one.

225 00:22:44.940 --> 00:22:55.499 Graham Stoddart-Stones: I, in order to make life easy for myself, like to move it to the top, so that it's the first thing I see when I open up. And in Paris Online, we do that in administration.

226 00:22:55.890 --> 00:22:58.930 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Then we go into the layers, go down to the bottom one.

227 00:22:59.420 --> 00:23:02.229 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And say, I'd like to move you to the top.

228 00:23:03.240 --> 00:23:04.680 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, let's redo that.

229 00:23:07.970 --> 00:23:09.239 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And there we have it.

230 00:23:09.860 --> 00:23:11.340 Graham Stoddart-Stones: You know, you can say that…

231 00:23:14.060 --> 00:23:16.199 Graham Stoddart-Stones: I can go back to the maps.

232 00:23:17.940 --> 00:23:24.239 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Now, when I open up the parish, there's… that new map, sorry, there will be the top one, which is handy.

233 00:23:24.370 --> 00:23:26.730 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Now, we go back to allotments.

234 00:23:28.890 --> 00:23:35.269 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Oh, sorry, that's not a parish lair, it's a non-parish lair. So if I go back down to allotments…

235 00:23:36.130 --> 00:23:39.810 Graham Stoddart-Stones: I've now got something to copy this field to.

236 00:23:39.930 --> 00:23:41.319 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So I select it…

237 00:23:41.920 --> 00:23:47.170 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Up comes the record. I tell them I want to copy it, which is that one.

238 00:23:48.180 --> 00:23:54.680 Graham Stoddart-Stones: It asks me what do I want to copy it to? I want to copy it to the… Nature.

239 00:23:55.900 --> 00:23:58.070 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Reserve polygon.

240 00:23:59.220 --> 00:24:04.870 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And it says what you're gonna call this. So this is… the nature reserve.

241 00:24:08.040 --> 00:24:13.290 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Well, I told you this is a live issue, so things don't always go as they should do.

242 00:24:14.070 --> 00:24:17.559 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And that spinning with tea is even worse than I started with, doesn't it?

243 00:24:19.410 --> 00:24:24.280 Graham Stoddart-Stones: One of those. Nope, one of those. Give it today's date.

244 00:24:26.850 --> 00:24:28.299 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And we're all set.

245 00:24:29.520 --> 00:24:32.370 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So we now have our new reserve here.

246 00:24:33.090 --> 00:24:41.709 Graham Stoddart-Stones: we've now got something to play with. So, let me just go and turn off that allotments there, so that we don't get bothered by it any longer.

247 00:24:43.850 --> 00:24:55.330 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And the first thing I thought we might like to do is take a photograph of this field as it was before we started playing around with it. So we have a sort of a,

248 00:24:55.540 --> 00:24:58.890 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Whatever that wonderful word is, it tells you where you're starting from.

249 00:24:59.600 --> 00:25:07.859 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Can't remember offhand. So, what we're going to do then is… turn off.

250 00:25:08.310 --> 00:25:16.819 Graham Stoddart-Stones: That there, so it goes… sorry, this disappears. But we now know where it is, so I'm just gonna zoom into that particular field.

251 00:25:17.240 --> 00:25:19.549 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Which, as it happens, is that one.

252 00:25:20.390 --> 00:25:24.989 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Zoom a bit more… And turn on the aerial photography.

253 00:25:26.820 --> 00:25:33.590 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And turn off the map itself, so we don't want that lying underneath any longer, just for the moment.

254 00:25:33.840 --> 00:25:37.510 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Type… Turn it down.

255 00:25:37.890 --> 00:25:41.160 Graham Stoddart-Stones: To zero. So we now have a photograph

256 00:25:41.300 --> 00:25:45.339 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Of the field as it was, and we're talking about this field.

257 00:25:47.130 --> 00:25:49.190 Sheila Churchward: Can you call it a baseline, then?

258 00:25:49.470 --> 00:25:52.199 Graham Stoddart-Stones: That's the word I'm looking for. Thank you! Yes!

259 00:25:54.010 --> 00:26:00.889 Graham Stoddart-Stones: You've resolved my wandering memory. So this is the field we're talking about. I'm just going to take a snapshot of that.

260 00:26:01.540 --> 00:26:04.700 Graham Stoddart-Stones: As a screenshot.

261 00:26:04.940 --> 00:26:14.759 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And then I'll go to the screenshot, and I'll rename it. And I don't… I think it's going to be on the screen that you're not… I'm not sharing, so just let me get ahead and do that.

262 00:26:16.330 --> 00:26:19.129 Graham Stoddart-Stones: I'm going to rename it The Nature Reserve.

263 00:26:20.190 --> 00:26:21.919 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Before work starts.

264 00:26:27.140 --> 00:26:32.259 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And this is going to give it an imaginary date of before today, so let's call it the 1st of May.

265 00:26:34.370 --> 00:26:38.050 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, we know it's before the thing got started.

266 00:26:39.380 --> 00:26:45.779 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And I'm now going to add that photograph to the record of this

267 00:26:46.000 --> 00:26:47.670 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Let me turn those off now.

268 00:26:48.020 --> 00:26:52.490 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And we'll go back to you being 60%, which is roughly what it ought to be.

269 00:26:52.800 --> 00:26:54.280 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And we'll turn you off.

270 00:26:54.910 --> 00:27:02.040 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And now I'm going to go back into Parish Online, the… there.

271 00:27:02.780 --> 00:27:04.660 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Sorry, that one.

272 00:27:05.090 --> 00:27:07.110 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And I'm going to add the photograph to it.

273 00:27:09.310 --> 00:27:13.469 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, adding a photograph is going to be done in the record itself.

274 00:27:16.230 --> 00:27:18.329 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, I pull up the record itself.

275 00:27:19.460 --> 00:27:24.030 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And I come down to where it says Attachments, and I just add my photograph.

276 00:27:25.890 --> 00:27:28.590 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And that is going to be… there.

277 00:27:31.860 --> 00:27:39.719 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So now, if I click on here, you can see the photograph of the field before we started work. So, as you said, it's a baseline. Thank you, Sheila.

278 00:27:40.080 --> 00:27:44.089 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So we can kill that.

279 00:27:46.390 --> 00:27:54.040 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And going back to here, and say, alright, now that we've got this space, what are we going to do to it? We want to add some features to it.

280 00:27:54.620 --> 00:28:03.579 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, to add features to anything in Paris Online, you click on it first, and then you come to here and say, I want to add a feature.

281 00:28:04.190 --> 00:28:12.589 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And the features we're going to talk about today are the ones that are actually going to be put into this nature reserve, and we have the pictures to prove it.

282 00:28:12.760 --> 00:28:16.290 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So I'm gonna create a couple of new items.

283 00:28:16.410 --> 00:28:21.650 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So we're gonna have… an upper… ponds.

284 00:28:23.110 --> 00:28:27.049 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And, we can do today's date, why not?

285 00:28:27.590 --> 00:28:30.129 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And so we can put that, say.

286 00:28:30.400 --> 00:28:32.320 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And I'm gonna do a weird shape.

287 00:28:34.820 --> 00:28:36.869 Graham Stoddart-Stones: As you'll see why when we get there.

288 00:28:37.380 --> 00:28:44.259 Graham Stoddart-Stones: This is in accordance with a design made by the people who are funding this, and I'll talk about funding later, too.

289 00:28:44.530 --> 00:28:46.959 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, having put in the shape, I can save it.

290 00:28:47.570 --> 00:28:52.279 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And there it is. Then we can add another one, which will be the lower pond.

291 00:28:56.030 --> 00:29:01.539 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And today's date… And we're gonna put it roughly here.

292 00:29:02.170 --> 00:29:05.500 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Now, this is all approximate because, you'll see why.

293 00:29:05.750 --> 00:29:06.890 Graham Stoddart-Stones: shortly.

294 00:29:07.780 --> 00:29:10.499 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So we save it, and that's created.

295 00:29:10.640 --> 00:29:17.280 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And now we're going to put in a sort of a combination of trees and hedgerow, which the,

296 00:29:17.380 --> 00:29:25.609 Graham Stoddart-Stones: biodiversity people are really keen on, and that's going to follow a sort of a curved line, so let me sort of do that, do that.

297 00:29:26.250 --> 00:29:27.859 Graham Stoddart-Stones: do that.

298 00:29:29.880 --> 00:29:37.860 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Something like that. Again, it's all to be created later when we've done it. This is the bridge room.

299 00:29:39.610 --> 00:29:44.280 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Again, we can go to today's date, and we can save it.

300 00:29:45.070 --> 00:29:58.460 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And then lastly, they're going to put in some wildflower beds, which will be long, rectangular beds over here. And so, we're going to use the facility within Parish Online for doing rectangles. So.

301 00:29:58.610 --> 00:30:04.109 Graham Stoddart-Stones: You can choose from a whole bunch of sizes, from football pitch downwards.

302 00:30:05.670 --> 00:30:13.659 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And if I just choose a 70 plot modern wide, this is me a starting point. We're actually going to have something that is, let's say, it's 20 meters long.

303 00:30:14.500 --> 00:30:16.409 Graham Stoddart-Stones: It's 2 meters wide.

304 00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:21.510 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And we can just put it in, let's say, here.

305 00:30:22.750 --> 00:30:27.569 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And you can see the sort of outline there is a bit faint, and it doesn't…

306 00:30:27.700 --> 00:30:32.309 Graham Stoddart-Stones: like it, and I think I need to make it bigger, actually. Let's make that 40 meters long.

307 00:30:35.360 --> 00:30:38.299 Graham Stoddart-Stones: I'll put it in… there we go, that's more like it.

308 00:30:39.450 --> 00:30:47.839 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So I'm just going to reorient that, and so it's roughly where it's going to be, and move it so it's roughly going to be, and that's it.

309 00:30:48.100 --> 00:30:52.880 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So we can call that… Wildflower.

310 00:30:53.150 --> 00:30:54.000 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Bitch.

311 00:30:54.140 --> 00:30:55.040 Graham Stoddart-Stones: 1?

312 00:30:56.440 --> 00:30:57.569 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And save it.

313 00:30:57.960 --> 00:30:59.980 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And then do the same thing again.

314 00:31:00.610 --> 00:31:03.280 Graham Stoddart-Stones: with Wildflower Bed 2.

315 00:31:04.720 --> 00:31:05.910 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And…

316 00:31:07.190 --> 00:31:14.550 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Save it, and just move that bit up in there, and then I think we'll actually call that 3, and I'll try and put 2 in between the two of them.

317 00:31:22.780 --> 00:31:29.140 Graham Stoddart-Stones: We'll add one more So I'll just try and bring around in between.

318 00:31:29.280 --> 00:31:37.500 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And then move it… So there we have our three wildflower beds. This is wildflower bed 2, isn't it?

319 00:31:44.610 --> 00:31:53.119 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And we can put that in. So there they are, and then we say, so these should all be different colors.

320 00:31:53.400 --> 00:31:56.719 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And we would also like to have some labels on there.

321 00:31:57.010 --> 00:31:58.170 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And…

322 00:31:58.530 --> 00:32:18.020 Graham Stoddart-Stones: I've done this deliberately just to show you that it's extremely easy to edit things in Paris Online if you've forgotten to set them up. So to set up ponds so that they come up in blue, and hedgerows so they come up in green, and wildflowers so they come up in purple or something, you need to add what's called styling.

323 00:32:18.020 --> 00:32:20.220 Graham Stoddart-Stones: to the records.

324 00:32:20.270 --> 00:32:21.250 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And…

325 00:32:21.630 --> 00:32:39.880 Graham Stoddart-Stones: you can have styling that's either single class or multiple class, and if you need multiple class, then you have to add what sort of class something is. So it's… the ponds are called ponds, the hedgerows are called hedgerows, and the flower beds are called flower beds, but that is a class you need to put in, and when we created our record.

326 00:32:40.150 --> 00:32:41.660 Graham Stoddart-Stones: We didn't put in.

327 00:32:42.140 --> 00:32:56.329 Graham Stoddart-Stones: a column for class. So the point of this is to show you how we can easily edit it. So if I go back now into the administration layer, I come into my nature reserve polygon, and I want to edit it.

328 00:32:57.390 --> 00:33:00.719 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And what I want to do is to add a new field.

329 00:33:04.450 --> 00:33:16.900 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And call it class. But I want to stop people choosing whatever word they want to use, so I'm going to put 3 words to add in here, so that these come as a drop-down list. I'm going to have a pond.

330 00:33:17.170 --> 00:33:19.300 Graham Stoddart-Stones: I'm gonna have a H row.

331 00:33:20.820 --> 00:33:23.870 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And I'm going to add a wild.

332 00:33:27.400 --> 00:33:28.120 Graham Stoddart-Stones: bed.

333 00:33:29.240 --> 00:33:30.990 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So I'm all happy with that.

334 00:33:31.120 --> 00:33:32.810 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, we confirm it.

335 00:33:33.390 --> 00:33:39.949 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And we can come out of here, if I can get everybody's… there we go. Sorry, nice.

336 00:33:40.570 --> 00:33:41.690 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Are you there?

337 00:33:41.800 --> 00:33:43.110 Graham Stoddart-Stones: We've saved that.

338 00:33:45.640 --> 00:33:48.559 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And now we can just go back to the madam.

339 00:33:51.550 --> 00:33:54.600 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And adjust the items in our layer.

340 00:33:54.960 --> 00:33:56.960 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Accordingly.

341 00:33:57.970 --> 00:33:59.869 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, let's just blow this up a bit.

342 00:34:01.100 --> 00:34:03.360 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Click on each one. This is a pond.

343 00:34:04.370 --> 00:34:09.999 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, we're gonna say… It's now got a class.

344 00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:12.699 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And we want it to be a pond.

345 00:34:13.080 --> 00:34:14.440 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So we'll save that.

346 00:34:14.860 --> 00:34:16.700 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Do the same with the bottom one.

347 00:34:18.100 --> 00:34:28.290 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, you notice you click on it to, highlight it. It comes up with a record here on the left. We go into the record, say we want that one, we want to edit it with the crayon.

348 00:34:28.489 --> 00:34:31.479 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And now I'm going into class, and this is a pond.

349 00:34:33.030 --> 00:34:36.030 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, with the hedgerow, I click on it.

350 00:34:36.210 --> 00:34:42.969 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And you'll notice that once you've selected it, it turns a nice blue, so he knows which of the two ponds you're actually working on.

351 00:34:43.239 --> 00:34:49.220 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So now I'm going to go to the nature reserve, going to go into the hedgerow, and say I want to make that.

352 00:34:49.500 --> 00:34:50.590 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Excellent.

353 00:34:53.290 --> 00:34:54.159 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Done.

354 00:34:54.750 --> 00:34:57.120 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And then, same again with the wildflowers.

355 00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:03.050 Graham Stoddart-Stones: I want to make that a wildflower.

356 00:35:07.700 --> 00:35:08.540 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Done.

357 00:35:09.340 --> 00:35:13.720 Graham Stoddart-Stones: No, it's mate, that… Oh, ultra mints 2.

358 00:35:19.590 --> 00:35:24.150 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And remember, we're doing this so that we can color code these things, so I'll go into the third one.

359 00:35:28.600 --> 00:35:32.289 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And… I soup, or a flower bed.

360 00:35:32.470 --> 00:35:35.559 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So now they've all got a class to them.

361 00:35:35.870 --> 00:35:44.839 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And so we can go ahead and change the styling of this record. So to go into Style, you click on the little, cogwheel, go into Style.

362 00:35:45.180 --> 00:35:48.919 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And the first thing we want to do is to change the

363 00:35:49.110 --> 00:35:56.770 Graham Stoddart-Stones: style type from single to class-based. We want the class space to depend upon the class field.

364 00:35:56.900 --> 00:36:01.809 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And we want to label these columns, so we're going to say the label column will be Name.

365 00:36:02.440 --> 00:36:09.530 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, on the second column here, you can just adjust the size and color of the labels, but we'll leave them as they are for the moment.

366 00:36:09.780 --> 00:36:15.270 Graham Stoddart-Stones: In the middle column, we can adjust the size and color of the,

367 00:36:15.770 --> 00:36:21.830 Graham Stoddart-Stones: classes. So, the class, we decided we'd want the ponds to be a sort of a blue.

368 00:36:22.620 --> 00:36:25.989 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And we'd want the hedgerow to be sort of a green.

369 00:36:26.770 --> 00:36:32.379 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And we'd want the wildflower beds to be sort of, let's just say, for argument's sake, purple.

370 00:36:32.900 --> 00:36:35.920 Graham Stoddart-Stones: I'm sure they'll have some very colourful wildflowers in there.

371 00:36:37.580 --> 00:36:44.440 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And then, just for your references, you can see what changes you've made in this preview column over on the right.

372 00:36:44.840 --> 00:36:46.789 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So I'm gonna save that.

373 00:36:50.710 --> 00:36:55.810 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And we're going to go back to the field, and now you can see that it's all changed. We've got…

374 00:36:56.430 --> 00:36:57.920 Graham Stoddart-Stones: labels.

375 00:36:58.390 --> 00:37:02.809 Graham Stoddart-Stones: We've got colours, And if I zoom in a bit further.

376 00:37:04.610 --> 00:37:08.470 Graham Stoddart-Stones: We'll zoom in a bit further, we'll find that we've got labels on here as well.

377 00:37:08.570 --> 00:37:09.550 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Alright?

378 00:37:09.780 --> 00:37:14.200 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Now, we've created, so far, a polygon layer.

379 00:37:14.470 --> 00:37:24.429 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And I want to say to the man with the mechanical digger, please go and dig me two ponds, and I want you to dig them here. And I'm going to give him this map, and he can go and dig them.

380 00:37:24.430 --> 00:37:37.729 Graham Stoddart-Stones: But he has got a very modern mechanical deal, but it's got GPS in it, so it'd be really handy if I gave him a GPS coordinate to say, this is where I want this pond to be, at least where the center of it's to be.

381 00:37:38.030 --> 00:37:48.559 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, in Paris Online, you can get the GPS coordinate of anything, provided you've got a point. So what I'm going to do now is just very quickly create a point there.

382 00:37:50.740 --> 00:37:54.990 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And we'll call this… Nature…

383 00:37:58.900 --> 00:38:00.940 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Reserve. Point.

384 00:38:07.100 --> 00:38:12.510 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And it's going to have… just… Point geometry.

385 00:38:14.530 --> 00:38:18.060 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Demo of GPS, let's say.

386 00:38:20.390 --> 00:38:28.759 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And it just needs one field with a name on it for the moment. And again, we can always come back and change this if we find it wants something more.

387 00:38:29.450 --> 00:38:30.510 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So…

388 00:38:30.880 --> 00:38:38.559 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Now, same old problem, we've got the new point layer is going to be all the way down at the bottom, and that's way too far away for me to fight with.

389 00:38:38.910 --> 00:38:43.859 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So I want to go into… and you and I are fighting with all these names, administration.

390 00:38:44.740 --> 00:38:48.520 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Go down and find the point layer, and bring it to the top.

391 00:38:54.470 --> 00:38:55.410 Graham Stoddart-Stones: There we go.

392 00:38:56.700 --> 00:38:57.790 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Save that.

393 00:39:00.020 --> 00:39:01.720 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And go back to the map.

394 00:39:04.470 --> 00:39:05.580 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And now…

395 00:39:05.960 --> 00:39:13.140 Graham Stoddart-Stones: you can see the point of… now we're going to do multiple layers turned on at the same time. So, if I turn on…

396 00:39:13.710 --> 00:39:15.640 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Sorry, where are we? We're down here.

397 00:39:16.980 --> 00:39:20.780 Graham Stoddart-Stones: If I turn on the polygon, you can see our field.

398 00:39:21.560 --> 00:39:30.280 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And if I turn on the points, you can see nothing, but I'm going to add some points as features. So we click on the cogwheel, go into Add a Feature.

399 00:39:30.660 --> 00:39:34.050 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And the first one will be… For the upper pond.

400 00:39:39.020 --> 00:39:45.249 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And we're going to put this in the middle of the upper pond. You can always blow this up a bit to make yourself more precise.

401 00:39:46.190 --> 00:39:47.299 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So I'm just…

402 00:39:47.420 --> 00:39:53.209 Graham Stoddart-Stones: blowing this up, and I'm going to put the pond center point right in the middle there.

403 00:39:53.750 --> 00:39:54.979 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Save that.

404 00:39:55.580 --> 00:39:58.010 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Do another one for the lower pond.

405 00:40:00.300 --> 00:40:01.410 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Same thing?

406 00:40:01.980 --> 00:40:03.480 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Stick it there.

407 00:40:04.700 --> 00:40:05.809 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And save it.

408 00:40:06.260 --> 00:40:10.239 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And we can do the same for these things as well, so we'll do a row.

409 00:40:14.270 --> 00:40:19.040 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And I'm not going to bore you all by doing it over and over again for everything, but we'll just sue these.

410 00:40:20.410 --> 00:40:23.080 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So now we've got points everywhere.

411 00:40:23.280 --> 00:40:27.270 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And if I go onto a point, and I right-click on it.

412 00:40:28.120 --> 00:40:32.530 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Sorry, I'll need to come out of the edit mode at the moment. If I go to the right click.

413 00:40:32.740 --> 00:40:40.739 Graham Stoddart-Stones: on the point. It says, copy the coordinates. And you can either do what's called a WGN coordinate.

414 00:40:40.760 --> 00:40:55.350 Graham Stoddart-Stones: which is decimalized, or you can do a lat-long coordinate, which is also decimalized, but it's much more recognizable, because we all know that, sort of, Britain is somewhere between 50 and 60 north, and somewhere between, sort of, 2 East and 6 West.

415 00:40:55.630 --> 00:40:58.670 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, those numbers will make sense if you see them.

416 00:40:58.870 --> 00:41:02.950 Graham Stoddart-Stones: But if you just copy them, they go into your clipboard.

417 00:41:03.290 --> 00:41:10.340 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And now, you can print out this map, and you can, print the clipboard coordinates to it.

418 00:41:10.590 --> 00:41:16.060 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And then the guy with his fancy machine will know exactly where to go and dig his ponds.

419 00:41:16.310 --> 00:41:21.229 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So that's the point of using this as a sort of a helpful guide to people.

420 00:41:21.570 --> 00:41:28.139 Graham Stoddart-Stones: For those of you who've not seen what print looks like in Paris Online, you can just select the print menu.

421 00:41:28.310 --> 00:41:39.710 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Call it the… Nature Reserve… And you can just say… For the pond diggers.

422 00:41:40.710 --> 00:41:43.089 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And we'll give it a legend.

423 00:41:43.700 --> 00:41:45.310 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And we'll say go.

424 00:41:47.050 --> 00:42:05.319 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Now, the reason for putting names in here, you don't have to put in something, but what you do when you've got your print, I'm just clicking on this here now, is it gives it a title, which is that 1, and it's why it's 4, and here are our points, here are our, the legend of what the colors mean.

425 00:42:05.570 --> 00:42:12.699 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And I would just have to add those coordinates, in, in, to this as a text file.

426 00:42:13.330 --> 00:42:23.310 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Now, this, print you can now either print out on paper, or you can save it to a file electronically and email it off to the guy with the digger.

427 00:42:24.210 --> 00:42:31.980 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, that was sort of more or less a quick runaround of just very quickly how you can use digital mapping to,

428 00:42:32.340 --> 00:42:34.280 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Get a project started.

429 00:42:34.390 --> 00:42:36.560 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Then the question comes, so…

430 00:42:36.940 --> 00:42:42.460 Graham Stoddart-Stones: what happens when they got going on this project, and so I'm just going to show you…

431 00:42:42.860 --> 00:42:48.479 Graham Stoddart-Stones: The particular people who are doing this

432 00:42:49.170 --> 00:42:54.260 Graham Stoddart-Stones: In our WhatsApp group, and you'll see that we have any number of photographs.

433 00:42:54.710 --> 00:43:00.260 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So here's the photographs of a compost, maker being put together.

434 00:43:00.420 --> 00:43:06.360 Graham Stoddart-Stones: There is the first of the sunflowers, it's just come after, planted by the school.

435 00:43:07.030 --> 00:43:09.220 Graham Stoddart-Stones: A lot more there.

436 00:43:09.530 --> 00:43:13.899 Graham Stoddart-Stones: These are pictures of the ponds being dug.

437 00:43:14.010 --> 00:43:17.499 Graham Stoddart-Stones: In precisely the same coordinates, but you can see that

438 00:43:17.620 --> 00:43:21.730 Graham Stoddart-Stones: This is not a round pond, far from it.

439 00:43:23.450 --> 00:43:31.130 Graham Stoddart-Stones: But this is recommended by the people who funded the pond, so we went along with their advice, and I'll talk to you about them in a second.

440 00:43:31.390 --> 00:43:33.500 Graham Stoddart-Stones: But basically,

441 00:43:34.030 --> 00:43:44.430 Graham Stoddart-Stones: People are actually doing this project from the project plans that we've created, and the results are we're starting to see already

442 00:43:44.490 --> 00:43:58.169 Graham Stoddart-Stones: changes in the biodiversity. So remember, this was just a hayfield before. Whenever the grass is cut, then that does a lot of, sort of, away with a lot of the biodiversity. What we're trying to do now is to…

443 00:43:58.280 --> 00:43:59.450 Graham Stoddart-Stones: make it…

444 00:43:59.930 --> 00:44:10.029 Graham Stoddart-Stones: more permanently diverse. So, just in passing, people were worried that kids were going to fall in and drown, so we put a post in that we're going to hang a life belt on.

445 00:44:10.510 --> 00:44:13.489 Graham Stoddart-Stones: There's the digger at work.

446 00:44:14.100 --> 00:44:20.459 Graham Stoddart-Stones: We were given a whole bunch of signposts by the local wildlife, people.

447 00:44:20.980 --> 00:44:23.369 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And, what else have we got?

448 00:44:23.860 --> 00:44:29.820 Graham Stoddart-Stones: They took the chance to build a hibernaculum,

449 00:44:30.100 --> 00:44:45.529 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And different types. So there'll be one for the reptiles, and another for the amphibians, and a third for things like hedgehogs. Anybody who likes to leave it underground or in nice, safe… there we go. There's the bottom pond.

450 00:44:45.630 --> 00:45:00.050 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Which is a bit more circular, but still rather more long and sort of banana-shaped, I think, more than round, and certainly deeper in the middle and the right-hand end than at the top. Again, all designed to go that way.

451 00:45:00.780 --> 00:45:09.039 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, the reason I'm showing you all the photographs is that because they're generating the results that we're seeing here. So,

452 00:45:09.770 --> 00:45:18.939 Graham Stoddart-Stones: This is a Brown Bandit Carter. Not as rare as the shrill Carter, but we found both in these areas since,

453 00:45:19.340 --> 00:45:29.070 Graham Stoddart-Stones: we've started building the nature reserve. So it's quite exciting. Another reason for having digital mapping Is that,

454 00:45:30.480 --> 00:45:34.610 Graham Stoddart-Stones: I'm assuming you're all seeing these photographs, I'm sorry, no one's saying anything, but good.

455 00:45:34.860 --> 00:45:35.880 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Which are tough.

456 00:45:35.880 --> 00:45:41.110 Sheila Churchward: And we've turned our mute on, you see, so you can talk quite happily to yourself.

457 00:45:41.640 --> 00:45:43.880 Graham Stoddart-Stones: I'm upset.

458 00:45:43.920 --> 00:45:58.080 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And the point of digital mapping is that you can look at, working with other parishes and building B and hedgerow corridors. So the work that you're doing here, you can tie in

459 00:45:58.080 --> 00:46:07.030 Graham Stoddart-Stones: With neighboring parishes, or other parishes, sort of a county away, on the grounds that you're working towards building a corridor that lets the wildlife

460 00:46:07.180 --> 00:46:11.680 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Move around rather more safely than they might otherwise be doing.

461 00:46:11.880 --> 00:46:21.929 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, having shown you that all these photographs exist, then the reason for showing you is that we can, go back to the

462 00:46:24.180 --> 00:46:25.260 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Sorry.

463 00:46:25.410 --> 00:46:26.370 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Is it there?

464 00:46:26.950 --> 00:46:30.540 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And start adding pictures to the…

465 00:46:30.930 --> 00:46:39.169 Graham Stoddart-Stones: individual shots. See, if I now go into my pond, and I want to come out of there, and I want to go into there, select it.

466 00:46:39.640 --> 00:46:44.490 Graham Stoddart-Stones: go into the pond, upper pond. I can now start adding photographs.

467 00:46:45.680 --> 00:46:48.029 Graham Stoddart-Stones: of this.

468 00:46:48.580 --> 00:46:55.959 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So… where are we going? In the Upper Pond will be called Upper Pond, possibly, yes. So, we'll…

469 00:46:56.360 --> 00:46:58.180 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Put in two pictures there.

470 00:46:59.100 --> 00:47:00.419 Graham Stoddart-Stones: One at a time?

471 00:47:01.620 --> 00:47:02.900 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And another one?

472 00:47:03.500 --> 00:47:08.090 Sheila Churchward: Can you just tell me where you're getting these pictures from? Yeah, I could…

473 00:47:08.090 --> 00:47:11.329 Graham Stoddart-Stones: I've taken from WhatsApp. That WhatsApp,

474 00:47:11.820 --> 00:47:13.400 Graham Stoddart-Stones: I was showing you all the pictures.

475 00:47:14.040 --> 00:47:14.910 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Sorry?

476 00:47:15.090 --> 00:47:17.800 Sheila Churchward: Did you put them onto Parish Online?

477 00:47:17.960 --> 00:47:18.710 Sheila Churchward: Or that just…

478 00:47:18.710 --> 00:47:25.040 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Well, no, I exported them from WhatsApp into a folder on my computer.

479 00:47:25.190 --> 00:47:26.940 Sheila Churchward: Yeah. And now, I'm…

480 00:47:26.940 --> 00:47:34.410 Graham Stoddart-Stones: gone to Parish Online and say, I want to add attachments, and I'm just adding the photographs to the appropriate places. So there's the second.

481 00:47:34.410 --> 00:47:35.760 Sheila Churchward: from your own.

482 00:47:35.970 --> 00:47:38.760 Sheila Churchward: From your own, files, then?

483 00:47:38.760 --> 00:47:57.610 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Well, yes, but it's just a temporary save to my computer so that they would get edible, and then once they're in Paris Online, they stay in Paris Online, and they're part of your Parish Online database, which is stored somewhere on Amazon's web service.

484 00:47:58.080 --> 00:48:10.389 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, once these pictures are here, they stay here. If you need to see them, you click on the title. If you want to download them yourself, you click on the download arrow. So, to see it.

485 00:48:10.610 --> 00:48:16.260 Graham Stoddart-Stones: You click there, And to download it, you can just click here. So…

486 00:48:16.550 --> 00:48:27.410 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Basically, you can do this for all of these things here. So I can say, okay, I've done it to you, I now want to go to here and do the hedgerow.

487 00:48:28.150 --> 00:48:33.769 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, sorry, click on… Yep, let's go into the polygons.

488 00:48:34.910 --> 00:48:37.150 Graham Stoddart-Stones: I didn't mean to turn you off.

489 00:48:37.350 --> 00:48:39.480 Graham Stoddart-Stones: I meant to click on you, there we go.

490 00:48:41.320 --> 00:48:45.070 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And I can go into the hedgerow, and I can add photographs here as well.

491 00:48:45.820 --> 00:48:50.720 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And I think for the hedgerow, I had a dog bouncing around.

492 00:48:50.820 --> 00:48:54.759 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Yeah, this was rather fun, so I thought I'll just load that up for you.

493 00:48:55.360 --> 00:48:56.910 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And you can watch him.

494 00:48:57.260 --> 00:49:01.169 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And he's basically… here's the hedgerow,

495 00:49:02.310 --> 00:49:17.759 Graham Stoddart-Stones: A lot of schoolchildren and a lot of adults came out very enthused about planting trees and what's going to grow into much more of a hedgerow. So, the hedgerow will have a couple of big trees to anchor it here and there to provide,

496 00:49:17.940 --> 00:49:24.730 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, higher roosting places for the higher birds, and then the hedgerow will provide roosting places for the lower birds.

497 00:49:25.120 --> 00:49:36.370 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And the dog is there to show you that, yes, we've got to think about the wildlife, and how are we going to let people use this nature reserve with dogs, but without letting the dogs,

498 00:49:37.170 --> 00:49:41.840 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Trouble, everything that we hope is flourishing in the nature reserve.

499 00:49:42.560 --> 00:49:44.210 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So,

500 00:49:44.740 --> 00:49:54.409 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Hopefully, I've shown you, how you can track a product. I'm gonna do my best, let me just stop sharing for a second, so I don't embarrass myself.

501 00:49:54.810 --> 00:49:57.320 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Or should I go and find this.

502 00:49:58.790 --> 00:50:06.859 Louise Gibbs: Graham, sorry, can I just go back to those coordinates? Because you've got the red dots, but when you printed the, or showed… did the map.

503 00:50:07.000 --> 00:50:10.760 Louise Gibbs: There was no coordinates, you just had red dots down the side.

504 00:50:10.760 --> 00:50:17.370 Graham Stoddart-Stones: No, I mentioned… I thought I'd mentioned in passing that you'd have to… when you,

505 00:50:17.540 --> 00:50:34.050 Graham Stoddart-Stones: click on the copy coordinates. It puts them into the clipboard. Then you need to copy from the clipboard to a document, and then add the document to the map. As a separate document. You print out the map, you print out the document, and say, here's the coordinates of the upper pond, here's the coordinates of the lower pond.

506 00:50:35.160 --> 00:50:37.269 Louise Gibbs: One of the other things is…

507 00:50:37.270 --> 00:50:41.120 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Yup, so as soon as I found this,

508 00:50:45.670 --> 00:50:49.990 Graham Stoddart-Stones: I don't want a spreadsheet. Oh, that's my problem, okay, I found the issue. Good.

509 00:50:52.860 --> 00:50:57.669 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Let's go into there, and see if I can find my…

510 00:51:02.730 --> 00:51:04.330 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Right, good, we now have…

511 00:51:04.330 --> 00:51:07.030 Louise Gibbs: an agenda.

512 00:51:07.800 --> 00:51:10.599 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, if I go back to sharing with you all…

513 00:51:20.340 --> 00:51:24.889 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And can you now see a digital mapping title?

514 00:51:25.150 --> 00:51:25.930 Sheila Churchward: Yes.

515 00:51:25.930 --> 00:51:29.589 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Good. So let me just go into here and go into sideshow mode.

516 00:51:31.630 --> 00:51:32.550 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So…

517 00:51:34.850 --> 00:51:46.139 Graham Stoddart-Stones: You would have got this lovely notice from me if I'd thought about it, but I didn't. What I was going to show you today was how I use digital mapping to map, let's Create a Nature project.

518 00:51:46.450 --> 00:51:49.659 Graham Stoddart-Stones: We're going to show you layers, which I'll get onto in a minute.

519 00:51:49.870 --> 00:52:07.019 Graham Stoddart-Stones: We've done attachments, we're going to talk about public maps, we're going to… you've seen the ordinary survey map that underlies all of this and keeps it running. We've talked about creating our own layers, which we've done. I'm going to chat to you about geolocation, and I'm going to chat to you about a fining system.

520 00:52:07.520 --> 00:52:08.360 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Alright?

521 00:52:08.550 --> 00:52:19.220 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, the next slide was going to show you how layers work, and I wondered how many people amongst us remember these things, because the overhead projectors were the first.

522 00:52:19.600 --> 00:52:32.389 Graham Stoddart-Stones: step on the way towards digital mapping. So you'd get a lovely crystal clear piece of cellophane, and you'd type on it with your typewriter and produce whatever it was you wanted to talk about. You'd put it on the projector.

523 00:52:32.390 --> 00:52:43.139 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And then, with a magic marker in your hand, you'd say, I'm now going to talk to you about this paragraph, and you'd put a big red circle around it, and everyone would know what you were talking about. If you were really advanced.

524 00:52:43.360 --> 00:52:52.519 Graham Stoddart-Stones: You would then take a second piece of cellophane with, say, a photograph on it, and you would overlay this layer, and you'd now be showing two layers at once.

525 00:52:52.760 --> 00:52:59.729 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, the advantage of digital mapping is that it's doing these layers for you, but it's doing them electronically.

526 00:53:00.910 --> 00:53:01.880 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So…

527 00:53:02.450 --> 00:53:08.929 Graham Stoddart-Stones: This is through the process that we've gone through. First, find our field, which we found as one of our allotments.

528 00:53:09.050 --> 00:53:24.630 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Second, second up is the new parish layer, we've done that. Then we copied the, old allotment to the new parish layer, so that we had the geometry. We've added the new features, which were all polygons, sorry.

529 00:53:25.000 --> 00:53:41.369 Graham Stoddart-Stones: We styled them with colors and labels, and we added points for the GPS. We sent the maps to the workers, for those people who had a digger with a GPS, we gave them the GPS figures, and we had them take photos of the features. Now.

530 00:53:41.490 --> 00:53:54.299 Graham Stoddart-Stones: When you've got that, it'd be nice if someone sent up a drone and took an overhead photograph, which you could then slap on top of the map. You'd adjust the size of the map so it matched the photograph, and then you'd have an exact copy

531 00:53:54.300 --> 00:54:03.659 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Of what the shape is now of the ponds, what the shape is of the hedgerow layer, and what the shape is of the wildflower layer, so that it…

532 00:54:03.840 --> 00:54:09.050 Graham Stoddart-Stones: The, the map now matches precisely the actuality on the ground.

533 00:54:09.920 --> 00:54:18.669 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, we'd done all that, then I was moving on to this last little bit, which is to show you the use of third-party layers, and custodial plots, and a bit more.

534 00:54:19.150 --> 00:54:25.889 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, let me go through… We've done this, done this, done this, gotta show you the public maps.

535 00:54:26.420 --> 00:54:30.889 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Gotta show you the geolocation, and gotta show you the fining system.

536 00:54:31.690 --> 00:54:37.350 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So… Let me talk about this, because, before I go back into the demo.

537 00:54:37.640 --> 00:54:57.440 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, the sources of funds for this project, the parish council in Long Sutton very nicely provided the land, so that's a big feature, and whether other communities will be this fortunate, I don't know, but the Parish Council also voted £1,000 to the Environment Committee.

538 00:54:57.510 --> 00:55:08.520 Graham Stoddart-Stones: to spend as they saw fit. And that is really, really useful, because when you find that you need a new shovel, or you haven't got a hose pipe to put the water in with.

539 00:55:08.570 --> 00:55:17.939 Graham Stoddart-Stones: It's nice to have just a few pounds at your disposal, you can go out and get them, and it doesn't delay things, the momentum keeps going, the volunteers are happy.

540 00:55:17.940 --> 00:55:29.420 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And so that is. The whole thing brought out a whole bunch of volunteers, right? Once they could see that they were going to be useful, we had lots of manpower, no shortage of manpower, no shortage of enthusiasm.

541 00:55:29.450 --> 00:55:33.329 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And the WhatsApp, group has been really lively.

542 00:55:33.710 --> 00:55:39.840 Graham Stoddart-Stones: A local farmer lent us his digger, so we didn't have to pay for that. Ditto for the turf cutter.

543 00:55:39.910 --> 00:55:48.340 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And ditto again, for a local water supply, the farmer said, you can just catch a hose up to my hose, and off you go.

544 00:55:48.380 --> 00:55:59.549 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And don't worry about metering and that sort of thing, we'll just make it as part of my commitment to the community, which was really nice, so that really worked. Then we went to the Somerset Wildlife Trust.

545 00:55:59.550 --> 00:56:10.330 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And they came up with all sorts of beautiful signs in signposts. You saw the signposts, I showed you a photograph of that. The signs I didn't show you, but they're really going to be gorgeous. So that was their input.

546 00:56:10.470 --> 00:56:18.289 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Then there was this wonderful thing called FWAG, which is the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group, which are part of Natural England.

547 00:56:18.520 --> 00:56:21.849 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And they gave us £3,000,

548 00:56:22.030 --> 00:56:30.649 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Initially, and then we said we're going to do two ponds, so we're waiting to see if they're going to fund us for both ponds, or whether the 3,000 has to stretch to both of them.

549 00:56:30.930 --> 00:56:33.930 Graham Stoddart-Stones: But because the, the digger

550 00:56:34.280 --> 00:56:52.290 Graham Stoddart-Stones: was provided free of charge, and Wessex Water had given us £1,000 as well for the digging. We went back to Wessex and said, could we please use your money on all the plants and the seeds that we're going to put around everything, because we don't need your money for the digger. And they said yes.

551 00:56:52.310 --> 00:57:09.289 Graham Stoddart-Stones: What they said is they wanted it to be really helpful to the community, so the plants, the seeds, the wildflowers, everything we put in had to be able to be demonstrated to be, you know, a useful source of biodiversity, a useful source of CO2 absorption, whatever it happened to be.

552 00:57:09.290 --> 00:57:17.870 Graham Stoddart-Stones: All the things that people choose these plants for, we needed just to write a report to Wessex saying, thank you very much for the money, and here's what we've done with it.

553 00:57:18.280 --> 00:57:31.170 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And the Frag people came up with the designs as well. So, how deep to build the ponds, how… what shape to put them in, that sort of thing was all done for us by,

554 00:57:31.280 --> 00:57:32.170 Graham Stoddart-Stones: flag.

555 00:57:32.190 --> 00:57:51.789 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And they provided the money. So, just… it's been a very uplifting project for everybody, because all the initial problems have been solved, and now we're on to the good things of, well, what next? Where's the path going to go that people can walk around without disturbing the wildlife or the flowers?

556 00:57:51.930 --> 00:58:03.360 Graham Stoddart-Stones: or falling into the pond. But we do want them to… the dog walkers to be… feel that they're not shunned, so they're going to come in, but we have to think about that. So, all the good sources.

557 00:58:03.770 --> 00:58:09.959 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, before I go on to any questions, let me just show you the things I promised to show you.

558 00:58:10.400 --> 00:58:18.470 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So we're going to come out of here and go to there, and we're going to come out of there and go into Parish Online. Come on, come on, come on.

559 00:58:19.920 --> 00:58:24.509 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Having said that… Yeah, there we go.

560 00:58:25.540 --> 00:58:37.179 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, I promised to show you, a couple of useful things I think are useful. So, everything you do in Parish Online is able to be published on your parish website.

561 00:58:37.440 --> 00:58:41.680 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So there is a feature within Parish Online called Public Maps.

562 00:58:41.710 --> 00:58:58.700 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And basically, it takes whatever you've got and churns it out into either a URL, which you can just put onto your website, or it gives you the code for your webmaster to put onto your website, and the to-page actually arrives on your website.

563 00:58:59.020 --> 00:59:18.169 Graham Stoddart-Stones: The real beauty for me of public maps is that if you then come back and make changes in Parish Online, those changes are immediately reflected on your public website. You don't have to go back and make any further changes. Anything you do in Parish Online is automatically

564 00:59:18.180 --> 00:59:19.889 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Reflected in the website.

565 00:59:20.170 --> 00:59:30.090 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Which I think is wonderful news. So I throw the word public map at you for the moment, because we're running out of time. I could show it to you, if people are interested afterwards.

566 00:59:30.340 --> 00:59:47.240 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, Public Map was one of the items to show you. The other thing to show you, or at least to mention to you, was geolocation. So, I think one of the most attractive things about Parish Online is that you can use it on your phone or your tablet.

567 00:59:47.640 --> 01:00:03.589 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And you just turn up your browser, you go to the Parish Online website, and your local community comes up on your phone. You can set it up with GPS so that as you move around.

568 01:00:03.740 --> 01:00:10.659 Graham Stoddart-Stones: The website moves with you. So, as you stand in front of the pond here.

569 01:00:10.920 --> 01:00:20.210 Graham Stoddart-Stones: With your phone pointing at it, you will be able to take a photograph, and the photograph will immediately get attached to this record.

570 01:00:20.380 --> 01:00:23.390 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And when you go to here and take a photograph of here.

571 01:00:23.540 --> 01:00:25.420 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Learn the hole, off you go.

572 01:00:25.540 --> 01:00:35.779 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And the reason I think this is particularly appealing is because one of the big groups of people that we hope to be enjoying the nature reserve are schoolchildren.

573 01:00:35.780 --> 01:00:53.879 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And if you tell the kids, we're going to go out into the country, bring your phones, and anything you photograph will appear on the village website. That's really enthusiastic reception that you get, and we've tried it. I think those of you who know me will know that, we sent out one of those Indian

574 01:00:53.900 --> 01:01:00.099 Graham Stoddart-Stones: what do they call them? Indian files? The groups of schoolchildren all going around, and they all took their phones, and we said.

575 01:01:00.430 --> 01:01:07.390 Graham Stoddart-Stones: We're gonna put on the map, you're gonna help us, all of the village bus stops.

576 01:01:07.590 --> 01:01:19.709 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, when you see a bus stop, please take a photograph of it, and then we'll load it into the map. And they thought this was really exciting, and about 12 went out, and we came back with about 24 bus stops.

577 01:01:19.790 --> 01:01:29.339 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Which I thought was fascinating, because there are no bus stops in our village. So, they've been very imaginative. If you couldn't find a bus stop, they just made one up, which I thought was great.

578 01:01:29.760 --> 01:01:43.620 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So that's geolocation, is the beauty of the ability to use your phone to add data to Paris Online whilst you're out in the field. So, provided you've got a cell phone signal out here.

579 01:01:43.660 --> 01:01:56.130 Graham Stoddart-Stones: You can take a photograph of those Carter bees, or the brown striped bees, or whatever else you see that's arrived, and put it into the place where you saw it. Fascinating. Really useful.

580 01:01:56.610 --> 01:02:05.290 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And the last thing I promised to show everybody was, I believe that Parish Online is a fabulous filing system.

581 01:02:05.870 --> 01:02:12.240 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And the way I demonstrate that to people is to show how we use it here.

582 01:02:12.440 --> 01:02:16.749 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Now, I… Promised you that we would have…

583 01:02:17.460 --> 01:02:20.320 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Or have we got some land somewhere?

584 01:02:24.110 --> 01:02:32.310 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Bear with me. Children's playground. So, let's say, for an example, you're anybody in the parish, but particularly you might be a counsellor.

585 01:02:32.360 --> 01:02:51.050 Graham Stoddart-Stones: and you happen to want to look at the latest copy of the playground report that you have to have done every year, or whatever it is. So, I would say, well, where's a logical place to go and find the playground report? Why don't you go and look at the playground? So, if I go and look at the playground in Paris Online.

586 01:02:51.690 --> 01:02:54.359 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Turn on… well, turn off our layers, I guess.

587 01:02:55.350 --> 01:02:57.900 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Bear with me, it's just so we're not confusing everybody.

588 01:02:58.710 --> 01:03:02.929 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And you'll see that I've turned on the playground, and here it is.

589 01:03:04.270 --> 01:03:07.930 Graham Stoddart-Stones: If I go and click on it, And bring up the record.

590 01:03:08.590 --> 01:03:16.350 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Lo and behold, there is… The report… do I see the report? Somewhere. Playground inspection report.

591 01:03:16.670 --> 01:03:33.160 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And there it is. Now, that was easy, wasn't it? It's online, it's available 24 by 7 to anybody who wants to see it, and they don't have to trouble the parish clerk. They don't have to go and fight to get into a locked-up filing cabinet, or even a locked-up village hall. It's all online. What more could be simpler than that?

592 01:03:33.410 --> 01:03:36.359 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And then I said, well, let's take this a step further.

593 01:03:36.940 --> 01:03:51.259 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And we'll come out of here and say, how do we store all the information that everyone wants to need? The first thing they want to do if they go into the village hall, for instance, is to find out what the Wi-Fi code is.

594 01:03:51.400 --> 01:03:59.140 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, if I go into View and those bookmarks I mentioned earlier, I have one for the Village Raw Operations Manual.

595 01:03:59.310 --> 01:04:09.399 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And here is the Village Hall, and everything you need to know is here. So if you want to know what the Wi-Fi password is, you click on Wi-Fi, and here they are.

596 01:04:09.670 --> 01:04:16.339 Graham Stoddart-Stones: If you want to know about the solar panels, how much did it cost to put the solar panels on the roof? You click on the solar panels.

597 01:04:17.690 --> 01:04:20.609 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And you can go and look at it.

598 01:04:21.170 --> 01:04:26.900 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And you can see the documents, and one of these will be the original invoice.

599 01:04:27.340 --> 01:04:29.329 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, you know, there's the inverter.

600 01:04:29.520 --> 01:04:32.159 Graham Stoddart-Stones: That's probably the manual for using it, yeah.

601 01:04:32.830 --> 01:04:52.439 Graham Stoddart-Stones: But I think that as a filing system for people who are not used to finding, it just makes sense to put everything in a visual place. If you're talking about the British Hall, put everything to do with the British Hall and the British Hall. If you're talking about the church, you know, and so it goes. So, just my little,

602 01:04:53.170 --> 01:05:01.089 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Hopefully helpful idea to seed in people's minds that there is much more to a mapping system than just drawing maps.

603 01:05:01.780 --> 01:05:08.330 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And I think that's now completed everything I promised to show you. I will now stop sharing.

604 01:05:08.450 --> 01:05:11.669 Graham Stoddart-Stones: And people can now abuse me as they wish.

605 01:05:13.290 --> 01:05:18.050 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Yeah, right, Sheila, yes, all this filing is indeed covered by your annual cases.

606 01:05:18.320 --> 01:05:19.760 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Sorry, your annual payment?

607 01:05:19.760 --> 01:05:20.700 Sheila Churchward: Yeah.

608 01:05:21.880 --> 01:05:26.810 Sheila Churchward: Yeah, because I just find that everything costs Doesn't it?

609 01:05:27.310 --> 01:05:40.299 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Well, not… once you've paid for Paris Online, everything that I've shown you today is built into it. It doesn't matter how much data, how many photographs, how many documents, how many spreadsheets you store there, the cost doesn't change.

610 01:05:41.670 --> 01:05:42.590 Graham Stoddart-Stones: So, I…

611 01:05:42.590 --> 01:05:45.219 Sheila Churchward: Great, great news. Thank you.

612 01:05:45.400 --> 01:05:46.619 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Well, you're very welcome.

613 01:05:47.070 --> 01:05:48.130 Sheila Churchward: Great news.

614 01:05:48.130 --> 01:05:53.439 Graham Stoddart-Stones: I hope everybody enjoyed that and didn't get bored rigid.

615 01:05:54.470 --> 01:05:55.150 Graham Stoddart-Stones: But…

616 01:05:55.630 --> 01:05:59.399 David Morgan-Jones: No, it's very… Thank you. Very useful, thank you, Graham. Yeah, no, really useful.

617 01:05:59.790 --> 01:06:02.190 Louise Gibbs: Yeah, very useful, thank you.

618 01:06:02.450 --> 01:06:11.599 Graham Stoddart-Stones: You're welcome. If nobody else has anything else they want to say, I will wish you all a very glorious, wet, and windy Wednesday afternoon.

619 01:06:11.830 --> 01:06:12.440 Louise Gibbs: You're gonna…

620 01:06:12.690 --> 01:06:14.410 Sheila Churchward: Losing things to do now.

621 01:06:14.610 --> 01:06:16.330 Sheila Churchward: Thank you. You're so nice.

622 01:06:16.330 --> 01:06:18.030 Louise Gibbs: recording out, were you, Graeme?

623 01:06:18.520 --> 01:06:19.550 Graham Stoddart-Stones: What was that one?

624 01:06:19.550 --> 01:06:21.220 Louise Gibbs: You send the recording over to us.

625 01:06:21.220 --> 01:06:27.550 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Oh, yes, when it comes… yes, I let everyone know when it's up on the knowledge base for you to see, so yes.

626 01:06:27.550 --> 01:06:28.800 Emma Kearney: Thank you, that's brilliant.

627 01:06:29.050 --> 01:06:29.679 Cllr.Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: Thanks, Graham.

628 01:06:29.680 --> 01:06:31.700 Graham Stoddart-Stones: WCU all, take care.

629 01:06:31.700 --> 01:06:33.030 Louise Gibbs: Thanks very much!

630 01:06:33.030 --> 01:06:33.370 Graham Stoddart-Stones: Bye-bye.

631 01:06:33.370 --> 01:06:33.800 Cllr.Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: Bye.

632 01:06:33.800 --> 01:06:34.520 Louise Gibbs: Bye!

Markdown version of the presentation for AI search engine:

# Digital Mapping of a Project

## Slide 1

By
Graham Stoddart-Stones
Digital Mapping of a Project

## Slide 2

Up-Front Advice & Notices
Today’s session is being recorded
Please would you mute microphones during the presentation? 
There will be a follow-up email with links to the recording
The presentation and video will be available to all afterwards
Please feel free to interrupt with questions – but if you use the Chat, a record is created for future reference – this way I can still send answers if we run out of time

## Slide 3

Agenda
What we will cover today:
Using Digital Mapping (Parish Online) to map a “Let’s Create a Nature Reserve” project 
Layers: What they are, how they work, third-party layers
Attachments
Public Maps
Ordnance Survey
Self-created layers – create your own layers for your own requirements
Geolocation – good for schoolchildren visits 
Parish Online as a filing system
Q & A session
CAVEAT – much of this will be live – hence subject to hilarity and error!

## Slide 4

Layers
Remember these?
Digital mapping does the same thing now, only 
electronically

## Slide 5

First, find your field
Second, set it up as a new Parish Layer
Add new features – ponds, hedgerows, wildflower beds
Style them with colours, labels
Add points for GPS
Send maps to workers to implement (using GPS where appropriate -eg mechanical diggers)
Have photos taken of the features
Adjust features in map to match the photos
Show the use of third-party layers – postal codes, cadastral plots

## Slide 6

Other items on agenda
Using Digital Mapping (Parish Online) to map a “Let’s Create a Nature Reserve” project 
Layers: What they are, how they work, third-party layers - demo
Attachments - done
Public Maps - demo
Ordnance Survey - done
Self-created layers – create your own layers for your own requirements - done
Geolocation – good for schoolchildren visits - discuss
Parish Online as a filing system - demo

## Slide 7

Sources of funds
This project funded by:
Parish Council – provided the land, and £1000pa
Volunteers – manpower, digger, turf-cutter, water supply and hose
Somerset Wildlife Trust – signs and signposts
FWAG SouthWest – Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group (part of Natural 
England) - £3,000 (per pond?), using their design for the ponds
Wessex Water - £1000 for the pond(s) – sundries, plants, seeds (originally for
digger, but not needed)

## Slide 8

Q & A session
Check ‘Chat’ for questions, and Q&A
(We are looking for new subjects for banter topics: please advise if you see the need for new matters to be discussed)


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