When you first come to the page you will see the whole Living Levels area with all the routes shown in red and any points already mapped.
We recommend you use the browsers Chrome or Firefox, not Safari!
To add a new point you need to add information to the panel on the left. You’ll have already recorded all of the information needed to fill in this panel on your survey sheet. All the ‘hard’ bit is out the way, now all you need it to type it up. Easy peasy! We’ll fill it in now together using an example from the Bishton walk to show you how it works.
1. Zoom into the area of the walk. To do this you can select the walk from the dropdown menu called ‘Zoom Map to Walk Extent’.
2. Select the walk you are adding data for.
3. Add the location number. Each point on the walk where you stopped to take a photograph and fill in survey sheet will have a location number, you’ll have annotated this on the map you took on the walk. Number 1 will be the first point you stopped on the walk, 2 the second and so on. See step 6 to see what to do with the map you took on the walk.
4. Add the grid reference, to do this line up the crosshairs in the centre of the map with the location. You do this by moving the map. The grid reference will automatically generate when you press the red crosshair. Line up the location with the one you marked on the paper map. This is where you were stood when you took the photo and filled in a survey sheet!
5. Add a short summary. This should only be 1-2 sentences summarsing the record.
6. Add a description. For advice on how to fill in this section you can download the prompt sheet here!
7. Select the themes that apply to the record. In this example Monks’ Ditch is described so ‘Waterways, Rivers and Reens’ is ticked and agricultural fields are described so ‘Agriculture’ is ticked. You can select as many (or as few) as are relevant to the record!
6. Add the photographs you took at this location. To do this press the ‘+’ icon. A pop-up window will appear, and you can select the photo from your computer. Before you do this step it may be worth thinking about the filename of the photo, as this’ll be visible to everyone. We suggest giving the photo a descriptive name, for example ‘llanwern_Park.jpeg’. Once you’ve selected the photo in the pop-up window press ‘open’.
7. The photo will then appear as shown below. Two new fields will appear that will need filling in. Next to ‘Description’ there is a text box, here you can write a more detailed description of what the photo shows. If it’s of a particular building/monument make sure you mention this here!
8. Next select the direction you were facing when you took the photo. You can select this from a dropdown menu.
9. You can add multiple photos to each record. To do this you just press the ‘+’ icon again. Then follow steps 6-8 until you’ve added all the photos taken at that location.
10. Your name will automatically appear next to ‘Recorded by’. You’ll need to change the date to the day you did the walk. If you have any other comments you’d like to make on the record you can add these under ‘Comments’ If not, no worries! You can leave this blank.
11. Press ‘Submit’!
Your point will then appear on the map. If you click on any of the points the information associated with it will open in a new tab.
