>I have had an idea, that is to make a program 'runnable' under windows
>3.1, '95 etc. which shows as many spots where carnivorous plants are
>known to live as possible and details and maps of where they are and
>how you can get to them.
Good idea.
>This would be for the UK, for now at least, as the USA is so big and, for me,
>unknown.
Well, there are some few (>150) additional countries on my version of the
world map. ;-)
> I know what this means, a possibility of unscrupulous collectors going
(...)
There would not be any scientific progress at all if research was limited
to those subjects which cannot be abused by the unscrupulous.
>If anyone has any ideas or contributions to make towards or against
>this idea, please contact me,
Ideas:
1. base your mapping project on the digitized map data of the freely
available (I think it is free; comments?) CIA world map. The resolution is
(even on a UK only scale) -I think- sufficient. Some political boundaries
are somewhat outdated in the meanwhile (the CIA map is based on data before
1990) but coastlines and rivers are still much the same.
2. while you may well start the project upon UK data, consider the
possibility to globalize the maps; keep the system as open (for
upgrades/extensions) as possible.
3. consider a link to the taxonomic data of the cp database on the web:
there are no cp maps on the web, yet.
Contribution: 1. I could provide some literature and a few published
distribution maps (which someone - not necessarily yourself - would have
to input in a computer based system).
>This, of course, is only a rough idea and the probability is that it
>will never get off the drawing board, but if I have enough support I
>will start to work on it, and see how far I get.
Would you like to become the cp mapping co-ordinator on the internet? I
would support such. So any and all people interested in geographical
mapping of cps could submit information to one single authority and in turn
retreive data from a growing online database (I like growing online
databases!).
Kind regards
Jan