Downloading species taxonomy from GBIF

Warning: make sure you back up your database before proceeding with the functionality described below as it can be used to batch update large parts of your data without an option to reverse the changes. Scenario: you have a long…
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Hidden Win Client Gem: Built-in GIS Editor

EarthCape Win Client has one unique feature: built-in GIS editor. It is not intended to be a fully functional GIS application but it allows for some useful actions that can be done without leaving EarthCape and needing to export the…
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Tip: searching large tables

For tables containing 100s K records and 10s of columns full text search can be a bottle neck. Search specific fields can be enabled via Filter Row:   This adds a filter row to the top of the table that…
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EarthCape real time customization

We will take a quick look how EarthCape handles customer requests for minor (and, sometimes, not so minor) changes often in real time without software re-deployment and with no down time. In fact, the same can be done by the…
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Earthcape in the field with metapopulation survey

(A guest post by Metapopulation Research Centre @metapopulation about their use of EarthCape) Introduction The core of our research has been the long-term study of the Glanville fritillary butterfly (Melitaea cinxia) that has been conducted since 1991 in a large network…
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EarthCape new web UI

EarthCape Web client gets new user interface, which works better on mobile and has overall cleaner and more modern responsive layout, and we are slowly upgrading the sites – a couple of examples below. Butterfly Genetics Group – University of…
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Trial setup on-site

We have just spent two very productive days with Bank Beszteri at his office in Bremerhaven downtown at the The Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research. Main purpose of the visit was to figure out how well EarthCape…
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Meet us at INTECOL 2013 in August (18-23)

Come August and we will be in London for INTECOL 2013 congress both as a sponsor and as an exhibitor. The congress itself is a massive event with a theme of “advancing ecology and making it count, and will present world class ecological science that will…
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EarthCape is hiring

We are offering part time/remote contract for software developer. .Net/C# (required) HTML5/JS (good to have) DevExpress XAF (very good to have) There are no preset conditions on experience or amount of working hours or length of the involvement – all…
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