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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMK" data-source="post: 3311809" data-attributes="member: 85596">Arnau Bonan, who is at least partially responsible for developing My Birding and actually knows how the technical side of this operation works, has provided some follow-up information on current and short-range planned developments to the system, which will hopefully interest Maffong and other users (be they potential or “live”).In addition to country- or island based lists, those for several territories or nation states have been added recently: these include Sabah, Kalimantan, Brunei, West Papua, and the Northern Solomons.Country lists are being updated based on the First country reports section in the Newsletter, but this is an area where changes are fast-paced (and many), so feedback from users is important. I already indicated in an earlier message how you can get contact the right people (posting a message on BF is not the best way!).The import system for My Birding is also subject to ongoing development. Arnau reports that it will soon be possible to import lists from excel files, as well as from Ornitho (a system used in Europe, though I confess I am not familiar with it, perhaps reflecting many Britons’ ambiguous notion of what it means to be European!) and from eBird (much more widely known and used, I suspect).Three other important improvements due reasonably soon in My Birding are as follows:(1) printable checklists (rather than electronic use only).(2) generation of more maps from users’ data, e.g. like that already available for first sightings around the world (<a href="http://www.hbw.com/tutorial/my-first-sightings-around-world" target="_blank">http://www.hbw.com/tutorial/my-first-sightings-around-world</a>).(3) all of the information generated from your data shown as a side bar on the relevant species account page. Improvements along these lines have already been made (that even someone as non-technical/Luddite as I can easily notice) but many more are in the works (<a href="http://www.hbw.com/tutorial/my-birding-box-species-accounts" target="_blank">http://www.hbw.com/tutorial/my-birding-box-species-accounts</a>).The best way, of course, to keep up with these developments is via the monthly newsletter (see one of my earlier messages).</blockquote>

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