# Banter 85: 03Sep25 Digitally Mapping a Nature Reserve Project Graham Stoddart-Stones *** {% embed url="" %} No video timeline this week - the presentation runs virtually non-stop, with Questions asked and later answered in the Chat section below *** ### Presentation: {% file src="/files/YNQhwBZGAvr6H23c0Q9E" %} You are welcome to view and/or download this presentation for your own use. A markdwon version is available below for the AI Search engine *** ### 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
00:15:36 David Newman: For Retrofit, Ask [Cosy Homes Oxfordshire](https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/residents/environment-and-planning/energy-and-climate-change/retrofitting-your-home/retrofit-help-you/cosy-homes-oxfordshire) and the [Low Carbon Hub](https://www.lowcarbonhub.org/).
00:17:26 David Morgan-Jones: [UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/environment-energy-resources/environmental-design)
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](https://www.parish-online.co.uk/services/mapping) (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"
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) Graham Stoddart-Stones 07486 575 922 ```
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