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Index of Subjects Please excuse the typo: First line should read: It's been explained to me (.......) that communities get entered by submitting a checklist. Cheers; Suzanne --- On Sun, 2/20/11, Suzanne Borkowski <suzanneborkowski@yahoo.ca> wrote: > From: Suzanne Borkowski <suzanneborkowski@yahoo.ca> > Subject: RE: [NatureNS] Backyard bird count? > To: "NatureNS List" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>, "Great Backyard Bird Count" <gbbc@cornell.edu>, "Jeannie Shermerhorn" <jeannies@ns.sympatico.ca>, "David Christie" <maryspt@nbnet.nb.ca>, "Wayne P. Neily" <neilyornis@hotmail.com> > Received: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 5:48 PM > Hi Wayne; > > I'm right on top of this. > > It's been explained to me (since I have sent in this exact > observation before) that until that communities get entered > by submitting a checklist. So, as soon as one is entered > by postal code, it goes into their database. > > Since their system covers all of North America, you can > > --- On Sun, 2/20/11, Wayne P. Neily <neilyornis@hotmail.com> > wrote: > > > From: Wayne P. Neily <neilyornis@hotmail.com> > Subject: RE: [NatureNS] Backyard bird count? > To: "NatureNS List" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>, > "Great Backyard Bird Count" <gbbc@cornell.edu>, > "Jeannie Shermerhorn" <jeannies@ns.sympatico.ca>, > "David Christie" <maryspt@nbnet.nb.ca>, > "Suzanne M. Borkowski" <suzanneborkowski@yahoo.ca> > Received: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 5:35 PM > > > > > > This is one of the main aspects of the GBBC that > really ticks off a lot of people who live in small > communities. We have enough trouble maintaining community > identities as schools, churches, and local post offices all > fall victim to the "bigger is better" mentality. There is > no apparent reason why the GBBC could not accept the names > of all communities, just as eBird does, perhaps > requiring geographic co-ordinates and county the first > time that one is entered. Instead, when we enter a name, > we get the "There is no record of that locale in our > database", and we are required to enter a postal code or > location that, as David notes, may be as much as 50km > away. This results in such ludicrous reports as Common > Eider at Middleton or Aylesford. Unfortunately, the civic > street numbering has not helped in Nova Scotia, Postal > codes for most P. O.'s have not been subdivided, and, where > they have, it is usually by delivery route, not local > community, and any one of these may still cover 50km or > more. Psychologically, it has gotten worse in recent > years, because of Post Office policies requiring us to > include our street address with the community name where the > P. O. is located, as though that town had just annexed all > the surrounding communities (e.g., 562 Messenger Rd., > Kingston). I realize that GBBC has nothing to do with > that, but it increases the irritation effect of every other > attempt to suppress local names. > > I hope that the reviewers and anyone else who cares > about accurate data or identities of small communities will > encourage Pat Leonard and the GBBC crew to change this > restrictive policy of locality data entry. > > Cheers, > > > > > > Wayne P. Neily > 562 Messenger Rd., > Tremont, Kings Co., Nova Scotia > > "Go forth, under the open sky, and list > To Nature's teachings." - William Cullen Bryant, 1817 > [Thanatopsis]. > > > > Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:22:07 -0800 > > From: suzanneborkowski@yahoo.ca > > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Backyard bird count? > > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > > > > Hi Jeannie; > > > > David Christie's answer is correct. If you're town or > community isn't listed, and if it doesn't come up when you > enter it on the page "Submit Your Checklist" - then use your > postal code only. Leave the community space blank. > > > > If you're entering sightings for another area, and > that doesn't come up, enter a postal code of a house or > business that is close to where you saw birds. > > > > If you have any other questions, just contact me at: > > > > suzanneborkowski@yahoo.ca > > > > or phone me at: 445-2922 > > > > Thanks for > participating! > > > > Suzanne Borkowski > > GBBC Reviewer > > Nova Scotia > > > > > > > > > > --- On Sun, 2/20/11, David Christie <maryspt@nbnet.nb.ca> > wrote: > > > > > From: David Christie <maryspt@nbnet.nb.ca> > > > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Backyard bird count? > > > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca, > jeannies@ns.sympatico.ca > > > Received: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 9:24 AM > > > At 8:23 PM -0400 2/19/11, <jeannies@ns.sympatico.ca> > > > wrote: > > > > > > It won't work for me,The nearest place that I can > get to > > > come up is Port Hawkesbury and I'm in Cape > George > > > CB,NS.Which is(if you are familiar with the > area) > > > about 14 km west of St.Peter's. > > > Jeannie Shermerhorn > > > > > > > > > > > > Jeannie, > > > > > > If Cape George isn't in the > location database for the Great > > > Backyard Bird Count, you probably will have to be > content > > > entering your rural route postal code which will > be recorded > > > in a manner such as "B0A 1A0 > town-where-the-route-starts." > > > In your case, I presume, that may be Port > Hawkesbury. This > > > is not very precise because rural routes may be > up to 50 or > > > more km long, but for mapping purposes it does > place the > > > observations you report in the right district of > Nova > > > Scotia. > > > > > > Rural areas that have switched to civic number > addressing > > > do not have this problem, because Canada Post > then assigns > > > codes tied to their local communities. > > > > > > Good luck with your observations, > > > > > > > > > David Christie > > > > > > Harvey, Albert Co., NB E4H 2M9 > > > > (formerly Albert, NB E0A 1A0) > > > http://www3.nbnet.nb.ca/maryspt > > > > > >
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