Captain Magenta

Website to search and display botanical records for

This application provides access to the same data but restricted to a single dataset and simplified for a mobile device for use in the field.

The project is supported by the Shropshire Botanical Society whose records are NBN records.

What it Does

Show on map search on site.

What Technology

PHP easy access

Challenges and Features

Cost and the Nbn

How to Install and Run

For developers

• Main branch at flora.shropshirebotany.org.uk
• Develop branch at captain-magenta.azurewebsites.net
• Developer docs at joejcollins.github.io/captain-magenta

How to Use

For users

Credits

Supported by Shropshire Botanical Society using the NBN Web service API.

Programming and website by Careful Digital.

What's been seen here?

The NBN Atlas provides open access to many of the UKs biological records via a sophisticated interface. Using this interfact you can answer the question... what's been recorded in a location? for all the records in the NBN collections.

However, often naturalists want to know about the most recent sighting for their taxonomic group of interest. Typically on a mobile phone at a specific site.

Who was Captain Magenta?

Captain Magenta was the former godfather of an organised-cybercrime syndicate whom the Spectrum Organisation recruited into its ranks out of its realisation that it would need a criminal mind to help it understand the criminal mind.

The project is supported by the Shropshire Botanical Society whose NBN records can be seen via their online flora.