Training Courses
This page contains information about forthcoming DMAP training courses.
At present, there are no training courses scheduled for 2005; the details below refer to a previous training course. If you have an interest in attending a training course, please register that interest by getting in contact with
Alan Morton
Course Title: Biological Mapping with DMAP
Dates: Friday 19 - Sunday 21 November 2004
Place: Flatford Mill Field Centre, Colchester, UK
Course Outline:
This course covers the practical aspects of using the DMAP for Windows software package for biological distribution mapping and coincidence mapping. The course is structured in three main sections covering the topics of data peparation for DMAP, data analysis using DMAP, and the presentation and publication of distribution maps produced by DMAP.
Data Preparation for DMAP
- Map Data
- DMAP boundary file data format
- Digitizing (manual; graphics tablet; on-screen digitizing of scanned maps)
- Downloading maps from the Internet
- Map data conversions
- Distribution Data
- DMAP distribution data formats
- Using a text editor or word processor
- Using a spreadsheet
- Using a database
- Using a biological recording package
Data Analysis using DMAP
- Distribution Maps
- Variation in recording scales
- Variations in map styles
- Coincidence Maps
- Coverage maps
- Biodiversity maps
- Indicator species maps
Presentation and Publication of Distribution Maps
- Printing and presentation
- Map image formats (pros and cons of different formats)
- Combining text and graphics in word processing and DTP software
- Commercial typesetting and printing
- Special maps - geology/soils etc.
- Distribution Maps on Internet Web sites.
Participants are requested to bring with them items such as data and maps (either hard copy or on diskette) which are relevant to their own mapping interests. Participants can also, if they wish, bring with them their own computers.
For further details or bookings, contact:
Field Studies Council, Flatford Mill Field Centre, East Bergholt, Colchester, CO7 6UL, UK.
E-Mail: enquiries.fm@field-studies-council.org
