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What's New in NatureMapsUpdate 8 - March 2009OverviewNew Murray Lakes Coorong Bathymetry Layer, updated February 2009. This layer graphically represents lake bed elevations of Lake Alexandrina, Lake Albert and the Coorong North Lagoon measured in metres above Australian Height Datum (AHD). New imagery is now available in a consolidated format. To view the newest aerial photography over an area, simply turn on the "Latest Imagery 2000 - 2008" layer. To view the highest resolution aerial photography over an area, which is not necessarily the latest, turn on the "Best Res Imagery 2000 - 2008" layer. To discover the year the image was taken in or the pixel resolution, click the Only one image can be turned on at a time, and if you are finished using imagery and would like the land and sea colours to reappear, turn on the "Land Infill" at the bottom of the Photography & Imagery folder. The Coastal Oblique Photos, Flight Lines and Photo Centres have been moved into a separate "Coastal Photography" folder under the Photography & Imagery folder. New Layers
Update 7 - January 2009OverviewThe State Government is dedicated to conserving our coastal, estuarine and marine environments. It has commited to establishing a network of 19 marine parks within State waters by 2010. The South Australian Marine Parks were established to protect the biological diversity of South Australian coastal waters and provide for ecologically sustainable use of the States natural resources. The proposed SA Marine Park Network has now been released for public comment, and are on NatureMaps to view or download in a GIS format. The key coordinates for each proposed Marine Park are available in the SA's Marine Park Network Points layer, which is also available for download. More information is available at the Marine Park website. The Netting Closures layer can be viewed in conjunction with the proposed Marine Park boundaries to show where fish nets are currently prohibited. New Functionality
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Update 6 - November 2008OverviewThe Adelaide-Mt Lofty Ranges Regional Recovery Pilot has developed a multi-taxa recovery plan that incorporates and integrates prioritised recovery and threat abatement actions for many of the threatened species and ecological communities within the Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges region. The threatened species prioritisation for the Sub-regional Landscapes is available from the "Landscapes - Species Priorities" layer, and complements the Draft Regional Recovery Plan for Threatened Species and Ecological Communities of Adelaide and the Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia. more information Revised mapping and classification of wetlands (water dependent ecosystems) on the Eyre Peninsula are now available in the Inventories layer (Landscapes > Wetlands). Information has been added to the Eyre Peninsula wetlands about land tenure, condition, water source and threats to assist site management in the future. The Inventories layer is now symbolised by Wetland Type. New Layers
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Update 5 - October 2008OverviewNew Murray Lakes Coorong layers have been added. These layers provide information on the health and physical characteristics of the Murray Lakes Coorong and associated wetlands. Fire history layers have also been updated plus more labelling and symbolisation options have been included. New Layers
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Update 4 - July 2008OverviewExtra functionality has been included in NatureMaps. Users can now temporarily upload their own Shapefiles onto NatureMaps for viewing in relation to existing NatureMaps layers. An Index Map function is also now available allowing users to see the position of the main map relative to the state. New Functionality
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These layers provides a description of vegetation type present prior to pre-European settlement, representing vegitation in areas that have now been cleared. In areas where the vegetation has not been cleared (where no Pre-European Vegetation is displayed) the Veg Floristic (NVIS) layer describes vegetation coverage. Update 3 - December 2007OverviewSome new features have been added to NatureMaps. Users can now download any Markup features they create in NatureMaps into ESRI Shapefile format for use in gis applications. A new scale slider zoom function has been made available to make zooming even easier. New documentation has been created to provide more assistance to users. The Add GPS Points user guide provides step by step instructions for adding GPS points to the map, whilst a new Bioregional Profiles Fact Sheet provides more information about the analysed Bioregional Profile (IBRA) layers. Map Grid of Australia (MGA) grids, often used on Topographic Maps, and Longitude/Latitude graticules have been added. Users can now overlay grid lines on the map to have coordinate references displayed on the map for printing. These layers come in varying interval levels to suit a variety of needs. SA Marine Parks has been introduced as a new layer and replaces the previous Great Australian Bight Marine Park layer. This layer was created by adding the new Murray and Nelson Marine Reserves to the information contained in the Great Australian Bight Marine Park layer. Kangaroo Island 2006 imagery is now available, which has been captured at 40cm resolution. New Functionality
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Update 2 - July 2007OverviewSome additional functionality has been added into NatureMaps. Users can search for layers in NatureMaps by typing in part of a layer name, and all matching layers will be put into a folder at the bottom of the layer list. Users can now view the coordinates in metres rather than in degrees when using the Measure Area, Measure Distance and Point Markup with Coordinate tools as they are now displayed in Map Grid of Australia 1994 coordinates (UTM coordinates) rather than Longitude and Latitude values, making it easier to relate the coordinates to the area and distance values calculated as they are all in metres, and also to align coordinates with Topographic Maps. Monitoring data has now been introduced into NatureMaps, with Beach Profile Sample data providing users with the changes in beach sand levels over time, with some profile points monitored regularly since 1975. New functionality
New monitoring dataThe Beach Profile sample monitoring data is now available in the Identify Report for Beach Profile Points (Landscapes > Coast & Marine). The Identify Report displays all the dates the Profile Point has been sampled, and when the user selects the small box next to a date, the height information is displayed. Users can also select all profile points sampled in a particular year via the Select Using Query Builder option under the Select Tab. Update 1 - May 2007OverviewSome useful new features have been added to NatureMaps. Users can now download selected NatureMaps layers to an ESRI shapefile to use in gis software for analysis with their own local datasets. Users can now also quickly and easily view GPS points they have collected on NatureMaps, so they can assess their data in relation to other NatureMaps datasets and create map outputs for reports. As part of an initiative to add more information as opposed to base data two new analysed layers are now available in NatureMaps. These layers identify the amount of native vegetation remaining (veg cover) and the amount of area of land managed for conservation (reservation) within the IBRA Subregions and Associations. These and other improvements to NatureMaps are explained in more detail below: New functionality
New Analysed LayersThe Interim Biogeographical Regionalisation of Australia (IBRA) provides a biogeographic framework for assessing biological priorities across the landscape. A gis analysis was undertaken to identify within the IBRA Subregions and Associations the amount of native vegetation remaining (veg cover) and the amount of area of land managed for conservation (reservation). This can be used to identify what are the management issues within a biogeographic region or association.
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