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Support article: How to use facets to filter ALA data

Search results can be filtered by many different record attributes, these are known as facets. If you are interested in filtering by facets in the spatial portal, please see this article. Using facets in search results Start your search. This could be by taxon, area or any other search criteria. This example shows a search for the genus Acacia. The default facets are displayed on the search results page in the Narrow your search section on the left. The facets are grouped into categories. 2...

Support article: How to embed a species map in a web page using ALA WMS services

By using the ALA WMS service you can easily create an occurrence layer that can be displayed in Google maps. The code below demonstrates this: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" /> <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" /> <style type="text/css"> html { height: 100% } body { height: 100%; margin: 0px; padding: 0px } #map_canvas { height: 100% } </style> <script type="text/javascript"...

Support article: An Introduction to Taxonomy

Taxonomy is the science of naming, describing and classifying organisms. It underpins everything from picking out different plants at the nursery to being able to rapidly identify new invasive species. Like most fields of study, taxonomy is continuously evolving based on new scientific discoveries (new species being described), as well as techniques such as genetic sequencing and advanced imaging which can change the way researchers understand existing species...

Support article: Tabulation Case Study

Author: Lee Belbin Tabulation in the Spatial Portal of the Atlas of Living Australia is a powerful way of comparing how species and areas are partitioned. Think of tabulations as the categorical (class) equivalent to scatterplots. Scatterplots display species occurrences against two environmental variables represented as X and Y-axes, for example ‘Mean annual temperature’ or ‘Annual rainfall’. Tabulations replace these X and Y axes of continuous numeric values with categories or classes...

Support article: Spatially valid flag

What makes a record spatially valid? What has changed in 2021? Detailed comparison How is the flag used? Search interface: default ALA General data profile Search interface: customising filters Directly querying the API Downloads What else do we check for? Occurrence records in the ALA can be filtered by using the spatially valid flag. This flag combines a set of tests applied to the record to see how reliable are its spatial data components...