How to post tracks to the North American Animal Tracking Database

I recently created a post on how to make an observation in the North American Animal Tracking Database. The project is nearing 5000 observations! Amazing work everyone.

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Posted on January 20, 2015 04:41 PM by jonahevans jonahevans

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Nice post! What do you think of using the "Evidence type" field on track observations? One of the value choices for this field is "track".

Posted by mikaelb over 9 years ago

I ended up removing that field because "Track" was the default. Because many people ignore the field, the default needs to be blank in order to prevent a bunch of stuff accidentally being labeled "Track".

If we could edit the Evidence Type field then I'd be happy to include it.

Posted by jonahevans over 9 years ago

Agree with the evidence type thing. I kept going back to edit my records after I realized it was defaulting to track.

Nice graphic, Jonah!

Posted by beartracker over 9 years ago

Thanks for doing this Jonah, its funny, I just did the same thing on the "Pathways" project site, but yours is much better, so linked to your on our Pathways blog. Thanks again, and congratulations on reaching five thousand!

Posted by peter6 over 9 years ago

Thanks Peter!

Posted by jonahevans over 9 years ago

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