Reptile & Amphibian Atlas for Android
Ontario Nature’s Ontario Reptile & Amphibian Atlas App will allow you to learn about Ontario’s reptiles and amphibians, report sightings to a provincial conservation program, and track your sightings.
Ontario Nature protects wild species and wild spaces through conservation, education and public engagement. Ontario Nature is a charitable organization representing more than 30,000 members and supporters and 140 member groups across Ontario.
App features:
•Identify more than 50 species of reptiles and amphibians that occur in Ontario
•Profile on each species includes 3 colour photos, a current range map, and descriptive text for identification
•Report sightings of species to the Ontario Reptile and Amphibian Atlas
•All submitted observations recorded in “My sightings” allows users to keep track of species they’ve seen*
•Links to www.ontarionature.org/atlas to provide more information on species
•Uses phone’s internal mapping software, camera, and clock to allow you to submit sightings in less than 30 seconds while in the field.
This project is supported by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Species at Risk Stewardship Fund and Environment Canada’s Habitat Stewardship Program.
*Uninstalling/reinstalling the program will result in the loss of your list; it is recommended that you keep your own backup (master list) separate from the application.
Love this app and happy it is here. I would like to see one for the different species birds, mammals, insects, fish. Plus have all the information in the app not just link it to the website. Marking location adding GPS and maps to the app would be awesome
The new update is great with being able to report offline from your gallery. Would be perfect if you can manually pinpoint locations on a map. Using current location doesn't help if I'm doing it from home! Maybe you can do that but I haven't figured it out yet.
I have only been able to open it once, when I installed it. It continues to ask me to sign-in each time I want to open it and keeps rejecting my sign-in. Very frustrating because it looked very useful! Any tips on how to overcome this problem?
This app is useless to use in the field because it requires an Internet connection to even get to the field guide. Dumbest thing I have ever seen. I would have rated this 5 stars but since I can't even use it while herping it's useless to me. ALSO, the range maps are useless because you can't view southern Ontario. No manner of zooming or dragging will bring southern Ontario and Point Pelee into view. Makes this a DOUBLE useless app. Use the site in your browser instead.
Love the info in this app and great idea for submitting sightings. Unfortunately in the real world it's not always possible to get photos of turtles in the moment. Would be good if we could report sightings without a photo, or to upload one from our gallery. Also it would be better if it were possible to submit sightings at a later date (busy lives, we can't always stop everything to enter all the data ). Going back to using Turtle Tally website.
I initially had trouble with this app and communicated with Ontario Nature about it. I had to uninstall and then reinstall it and now it works great! Definitely worth having.
This app is so like killin by vibe
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Great app
I initially had trouble with this app and communicated with Ontario Nature about it. I had to uninstall and then reinstall it and now it works great! Definitely worth having.
Thank you! Awesome app.
This app is a perfect tool, except that it should allow you to upload pictures from your phone's gallery
But it just won't let me! I've put a LOT of effort into trying to get it to work. The one time it did work it was great. I've communicated with Ontario Nature and they know it has glitches. This is an ENGO after all and they need $$$ to develop updates and fixes. I would be willing to pay $5 for this app if it worked reliably. As it stands I've uninstalled it and now I've been trapped at the library for over an hour trying to reinstall it.
Like others have said it would be nice to submit previous sittings. I saw a painted turtle today and took a picture but I couldn't upload the picture into the app. Same as all of the other sittings of snakes.
Very cool, let's the everyday person become part of the bigger picture of sustainability! Also, in response to John's issue of asking for email confirmation... you need to check your spam folder from an email from On. Nature! Click accept/confirm in it and you should be good to go!
This app is a perfect tool, except that it should allow you to upload pictures from your phone's gallery
It might be a great app once it gets fixed. I can't even open it, fer crying out loud. Great potential, but a big time wasting 63mb download for nothing right now.
I'd really like to give this app a high rating, but I need to be able to use it first so I can decide what sort of rating I feel it deserves, and to do that I need the developers to answer my emails and fix whatever glitch that is causing an error message to appear telling me to confirm my email account every time I try to log in. :-(
This app just kept asking me to verify my email address.
Very organized and creative. Useful for science!
Love, love, love the app. Turns more of us into citizen scientists contributing vital info for conservation. Great learning tool too!
I am so happy to have this app! The setup makes it really easy to figure out what species you're looking at, and track all the important details. I cant give it 5 stars for 2 reasons: you cant add sightings retroactively and you have to know what species youve sighted before you can take their picture. This is a bit of a flaw on the field. But as is, this is a great app!
Great id guide in the field and an easy way to share what I have seen
Awesome
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Can't use the app. Crashes as soon as I do anything after opening.