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Here you will find several documents that outline how the atlas works and how you can contribute to it. These documents detail (i) instructions for administrators on maintaining the atlas, (ii) advanced commands for formatting atlas content (e.g. text, images, interactive widgets), and (iii) the data sets used to produce the maps, graphs, tables, and surveyor sheets present within the atlas. We also provide a list of frequently asked questions. For convenience, we have listed these questions below.
If you have any suggestions for improving these documents or have any remaining questions, please create an issue on the repository's issue tracker.
- I have a question - who should I contact?
- What is GitHub?
- Do I need to make a GitHub account?
- What is bookdown?
- What is Markdown? And what is rmarkdown?
- What is YAML?
- What is eBird?
- How can I contribute to this atlas?
- What form of English spelling should be used?
- Why doesn't the atlas website (or PDF document) contain my edits?
- How can I format the text for the PDF document version of the atlas (e.g. insert a page break)?
- How can I add a new species to the atlas?
- How can I change the common name for a species?
- How can I specify (or change) which image should be used for the species' profile picture?
- How can I add an audio track for a species?
- How can I remake all of the the species' graphs, maps, tables, and interactive widgets, and the surveyor sheets too?
- How can I change the threat status for a species?
- How can I specify if a species' map should display only land-based, marine, or both types of sampling grid cells?
- How can I change which graphs should be displayed for a particular species?
- How can I change which maps should be displayed for a particular species?
- How can I specify (or not) if a species should appear in the surveyor sheet checklists?
- How can I change the size of the images containing the species' maps?
- How can I change the size of the images containing species' graphs?
- How can I change the color ramp used for the species' reporting rates in the maps?
- How can I specify which eBird sampling protocols should be excluded from reporting rates?
- How can I specify which eBird sampling localities (e.g. hotspots) should be excluded from the atlas?
- How can I specify which eBird breeding activity codes should be used for reporting breeding?
- How can I specify the minimum number of total checklists required for a grid cell to be considered adequately sampled for reporting rate calculations?
- How can I specify the minimum number of total sampling events required for a grid cell to be considered adequately sampled for species' detection?
- How can I specify (or change) the name of an atlas grid cell?
- How can I specify (or change) the checklist, kilometre, or minute target for an atlas grid cell?
- How can I specify (or change) the description of an atlas grid cell?
- How can I change the type of map displayed in a surveyor sheet?
- How can I alter the formatting of the checklists in the surveyor sheets?
- How can I customize the appearance of the imagery in the surveyor sheets?
- How can I change the text which appears on the last page of the surveyor sheets?
- How can I update the underlying data used for calculating reporting rates by different vegetation types?
- How can I update the underlying data used for calculating reporting rates by elevation?
- How can I change the names of the different vegetation classes?
- Where can I get the raw data that underpins the atlas?
- How can I incorporate my personal observations to the atlas?
- How can I update the atlas with a new version of the eBird data set?
- Where is the atlas backed up?
- I get an error when I try pushing new assets?
- As an atlas administrator, what programs and files will I need on my computer?
- What license is this project distributed under?
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