Other feedback suggested new features:
I would like to be able to have my own boxes for things like how much time they spent
monitoring or pulling weed[s]. That information is necessary so I [can] earn in-kind matching
money for my grants.
I wish that my volunteers had a way to query for their results (by map or list). I suppose it would
be really valuable if I could query by recorder too. If I map Japanese hops . . . by presence and
absence, I cannot tell which is which by the legend. I have had volunteers enter their lat/long
incorrectly. I have caught these instances; however, they cannot simply go back to their survey
and correct the error. They must delete the survey and begin again.
When [volunteers] are on the map and click the Add a Point icon, [can] they be directed to the
project data form instead of just the standard one? As it is now, they have to enter lat/long
coordinates for each point and really only use the map for viewing observations that have
already been entered. Any chance we could provide you with a layer of our Natural Area
boundaries that could be draped over the Google map so that volunteers could see [them]? Our
GIS dept has tried to work with map server companies like Tele Atlas to submit data ...and
apparently it is not very easy.
. . . is there a built in listserv ability with CitSci.org? Will we be able to send out an email,
newsletter or the like to all the members of our project?
Additional feedback emphasized the need for simplicity:
Right now, I’m wondering how I’m going to sell this . . . to my [volunteers]. They don’t want to
spend anytime online . . . If they do . . ., it had better be simple and fast or they simply won’t do it
and [I will] have lost a [volunteer].