Project: Pauatahanui Wildlife Reserve
Line 1: South Line, Along south side of Pauatahanui Stream.
Line 2 : Central line from entrance to PWR - around Picnic Pond and out toward Estuary Hide
Over time traps have been moved and their location has not been updated in trap.nz As some trappers are now using the App, Walk Line function I attempted to update trap locations using the app. Specifically for Line 1 and Line 2. Some traps are supplementary, eg Some DOC boxes have mice traps in them so the mice traps are defined as supplementary. I used the Walk Line option and as I got to a trap that was no longer at the GPS site recorded in trap.nz I edited the trap and used the Move trap function. Using the app to move the traps looked successful. When the move was confirmed the main trap and supplemental appeared to move correctly. However after saving the Lines I saw in the Appâs map that the Supplemental traps were back in their old location. So i decided to stop moving traps and to check the supplemental maps locations using the Web app. Here I found an even bigger problem than I thought, In the case of Line one none of the supplemental traps appear on the map or in trap.nz for that matter and are no longer associated with the main trap. Not only that but all data apart from todays has disappeared. In the case of Line 2, apart from the supplemental traps not moving to the new location these still appear in the web app and all data is still present.
2 issues
How can the supplemental traps be moved to the correct locations
and MORE importantly
How can the data be recovered for Line 1 and associate the missing supplemental traps back to the main traps.
@jaybee Can you please put a request through to our help desk Need help? | Trap.NZ, also I have checked your data and as you have moved the traps they have been retired the data is in the trap records if you access manage trap records
I have been told by trap.nz support that if a trap is moved âtoo farâ it will be retired. This is why data appeared to âdisappearâ for the traps I moved.
I checked the user guide and couldnât find this documented. It does state the following though:
âMoving an installation that already has records associated with it
If you are physically moving an installation that already has records associated with it, best practice is to âretireâ the installation and create a new one in the new location. This keeps old records correctly associated with the old location.
If you wish, you can create the new installation with the same name.â
Can someone tell me where it is documented that a trap will be retired if it is moved too far?? What distance is considered too far? For example if it is 25m the trap will be retired if it is moved more than 25m. If I want to move a trap say 40m without it being retired, can I move it 20m one day and then 20 the next to avoid the automatic retirement??
While itâs good to know the records arenât lost how does one get back the status quo when oneâs phone has a spaz moving the trap a few m and moved it several hundred and when you move it back the records which include photos of the new location are no longer there. Currently it is showing on the map but not in the records nor do I know how to view the previous trap history.
I would just like to have all the old records back with the trap which is just so close to the old one I probably should have just said I was correcting the map.
Also is only one photograph able to be uploaded per trap?
It wasnât retired it was moved to a wrong location and back to almost the same 5-10m. Oh also you can only get to that option as described by switching to the âold viewâ - at least I didnât see it under the current view
This is for Ohau Conservation Trust, P32A. So if I go back to Trap Reports for that line for as long as that trap has been there it doesnât feature at all. So no prior records
@cragrat when you move an installation in the app, the original site in automatically retires and a clone installation created in the new site. So when you add it back it then creates two retired installations.
An administrator or manager of the project can unretire the original installation if you need help please contact me at support@trap.nz
