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This fortnight saw some good movement with 16 cards submitted that contributed to the "Cards-to-Green" mini-project. There was also an adjustment to a card in Degree Square 2732, where a pentad code was corrected, i.e. data for a pentad was moved from a "CTG-deficient" pentad to a "CTG-excess" one.
This adjustment shows the total cards on this table to have moved by only 15, rather than the sixteen.
Most submissions were in southern KZN, where John and Kim Cox were busy over the last fortnight, while the Midlands and Coast gained three and Northern KZN one.
2830 remains our most poorly covered degree square with 341 cards needed.
2832 only needs 6 cards to be completely 'green', while 2930 now needs 53.
The credit for the most contributions to the CTG project again goes to John and Kim, with 12 cards. Tim Wood submitted 2 cards, while Johan and Estelle van Rooyen, and yours truly submitted a single card.
John reported that they atlased over 40 pentads in southern KZN and the Eastern Cape, 17 of which were new pentads.
Due to the way in which the pentads are allocated to each province, six of these 17 new pentads were allocated to KZN on the SABAP2 web table, so KZN has moved up from 1265 pentads to 1271pentads with coverage. Thanks John and Kim!
Unfortunately I have been using my GIS to calculate the CTG contributions, and by my calculations only one of these fell mostly in KZN, this is the one reflected on this table. As Tim Wood so rightly says, we should be looking at all pentads regardless of provincial allocation, especially this corner of the Eastern Cape. In any event the boundary has been moved anyway, there should be a whole lot more to EC anyway.
On the overall KZN front we had another good fortnight with 104 cards submitted, still with a high average of 60.0 records/card. This equates to 445.6 records/day, this is well above the KZN average of 424.8. The last time we achieved this was in January this year.
Well done KZN, and many thanks to all who contributed.
I have added in the Cards-to-Green map again.
A definite trend is emerging, with the areas around Richard's Bay, Durban and PMB forming core areas with an ever-expanding area radiating out from here. The CTG pentads are getting further and further away from these three centres.
13 cards were submitted in the last fortnight that contributed to the CTG effort.
The largest movement was in the 2931 degree with 5 cards.
2731 and 2732 were then tied on 3 cards each, with 2830 following with 2.
2830 remains our most poorly covered degree square with 342 cards needed. Second neediest is 2731 with 219 cards.
On the positive side 2828 only needs 4 cards to have complete four card coverage within KZN, while 2832 only needs 6 cards.
Credit for contributing CTG's goes once again to John and Kim Cox with 5 cards. At least this fortnight Malcolm Robinson provided some competition with 3 cards, Hanneline Smit and Alan Manson each contributed 2 cards and Lance Robinson one.
We have in the last 2 fortnights had 13 CTG's contributed. The previous two fortnight's had 10 CTG's.
For all cards submitted for KZN we had a good fortnight with 97 cards submitted with an average of 62.2 records/card.
This equated to a submission rate of 6.9 cards/day which is certainly at the upper end of the scale for KZN.
An interesting stat is that this works out at 431.1 records/day. The last fortnight that we achieved this was 28-Mar-2012.
