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Compare areas
Compare areas is a simple tool that will show the differences between any two defined areas in terms of species composition and area. To compare the s...
Fri, 3 Jul, 2020 at 10:13 AM
How to show the distribution of a species on a map of Australia
User Guide 2 Begin at the Atlas of Living Australia homepage. Click on Search & analyse, then choose Spatial analysis (Spatial Portal). Selec...
Thu, 25 Jul, 2019 at 12:05 PM
Scatterplot
Please note: this guide has been written in relation to version 2.0 of the spatial portal due to brought into production in 2019. A different version of the...
Mon, 1 Jul, 2019 at 10:34 AM
Point Comparisons
Please note: this guide has been written in relation to version 2.0 of the spatial portal due to brought into production in 2019. A different version of the...
Tue, 12 Feb, 2019 at 8:58 AM
Area of Occupancy and Extent of Occurrence
Eucalyptus gunnii AOO and EOO Area of Occupancy (AOO) and Extent of Occurrence (EOO) are two ‘statistics’ used by the IUCN for their Red List of Th...
Fri, 29 Nov, 2019 at 10:28 AM
Generate points
This tool enables a regular square grid of points to be generated over any user-defined area. It is anticipated that the points generated would be us...
Wed, 13 Mar, 2019 at 1:00 PM
Flickr images
Note: This guide refers to version 2.0 of the spatial portal. Map images were supplied by Panoramio in previous versions of the spatial portal. ...
Thu, 28 Feb, 2019 at 9:03 AM
Facet (Add to Map)
This guide refers to the functions available in the spatial portal version 2.0. The Add to Map | Facet allows the user to add all occurrence records fo...
Wed, 13 Mar, 2019 at 1:51 PM
How to show the distribution of more than one species on a map of Australia
User Guide 8 On the ALA’s Spatial Portal, you can add as many species to one map as you like. To see how to do this, have a look at ALA User Guide 2 –Sp...
Thu, 25 Jul, 2019 at 2:13 PM
Common Map Options
Map Options is a special layer that is used to define the basemap displayed in the Spatial Portal, to allow the user to add in their own layer via WMS, and...
Fri, 9 Aug, 2019 at 10:40 AM