KZN Card Submissions

In the 29 days from 19-Apr to 18-May, 239 cards were submitted for pentads in KZN. There were nine new pentads covered. 51 observers made submissions.

This equates to 8.2 cards per day, 4.7 cards per observer and 0.3 new pentads per day. It is interesting to compare the submissions per day over the last few reporting periods:
19/04-18/05 [29 d]: 8.2 cards / day
29/03-19/04 [21 d]: 8.7 cards / day
15/03-29/03 [14 d]: 9.9 cards / day
17/02-15/03 [26 d]: 7.7 cards / day
11/01-14/02 [37 d]: 8.5 cards / day
05/12-11/01 [37 d]: 10.2 cards / day

What this does seem to indicate is that we have a fairly stable submission rate of between 8-10 cards / day for KZN.

What is noticeable in these stats is that new pentads are certainly much harder to get to. For the same period, the card submission rate for new pentads was as follows: 0.31, 0.71, 1.14, 1.00, 0.89 & 0.93.

The attached list is sorted [in descending order] by new pentad submissions, then by number of cards, then by Observer, which means that Alan Manson topped the list with 4 new pentads and 4 cards, followed by Tim Wood with 1/11, Duncan McKenzie with 1/10, Klaus Heyer with 1/3 and Frank Rautenbach with 1/3.

If we change the sort order to te number of cards submitted, new pentads and then name [again in descending order] we have: Johan Gouws on 21 cards with 0 new, Michael Lee 19/0, Trish Strachan 14/0, Richard Johnstone 12/0 and Tim Wood with 11/0.

Again, well done to all the many others who also contributed.

KZN Card Submissions

These are the submissions for KZN pentads for the period 29 Mar to 19 Apr 2010.
In these 21 days we had 183 cards submitted, 15 of which were for new pentads, i.e. 8.7 cards a day and 0.71 new pentads a day.
48 observers submitted cards, which is 3.8 cards per observer.
In general we seem to be holding fairly steady in terms of card submissions and new pentads.
My question now is do I start keeping track of who is managing to do the second card for each pentad as well?

Priority QDGC's in KZN

Since the last Priority QDGC posting, we now have only one empty core QDGC left in KZN. This thanks to Alan Manson's work in the COLLESSIE QDGC.

Our empty core QDGC is: 2731DD NGXONGWANE.

So please, if anyone is up in the Mkuze area, a little to your west, you have a choice of NINE empty pentads.

We only have 3 empty boundary QDGC's left, viz.:

2731AB MOOIPLAATS

2832BC ST LUCIA ESTUARY [EAST]

3028BB LEHLOHONOLO

From a pentad coverage point of view, Southern KZN is looking especially good with very nearly complete coverage. Now we just have to look at changing some of the yellow-coloured pentads to orange.

The N3 Axis from Mooi River to Durban is also looking quite good, slowly moving through the colours from blue, to red, to purple and ultimately to pink. Again we have to look at trying to expanding this coverage outwards, especially to the north.

Breakdown of Observers in KZN

This graph gives a breakdown of how many KZN-based atlas observers live where, also classing them by the number of cards that they have submitted [nationally]. This was as at 29/03/2010.

For instance, there were 23 observers who had submitted one card, 6 in from the Midlands, 5 from Northern KZN, 5 from Port Natal, 1 from Sisonke [Southern KZN], 4 from Trogons [South Coast] and 2 from Zululand.

Alternatively we can see that in the Midlands we have 6 who submitted 1 card, 4 have submitted 2-4 cards, six 5-9 cards, three 10-19, five 20-49, three 50-99, two 100-149, another two 150-199 and last but not least, one observer who has submitted between 400-499 cards.

If one assumes that observers who have submitted 5 or more cards can be said to be regular atlassers, then of the 240 people who reside in KZN that have registered, 84 [or 35%] of them have gone on to atlas regularly. It is also interesting to note that only 127 people [of the 240 who have registered], have actually gone on to submit a card, i.e. only 53%. In other words 53% of the people who have registered have actually gone on to try their hand at atlassing, while only 35% have gone on to submit more than 5 cards.

Last Set of Submissions for KZN

The list on the left are the card submissions for KZN pentads for the period 17/02/10 to 15/03/10.

During these 26 days we had 201 cards submitted, 26 of which were for new pentads. We averaged 7.7 cards / day, with 3.5 cards / observer, and 1.0 cards per new pentad per day.

The three observers who submitted the most cards, were Iain Guthrie with 24, Tim Wood with 16 and Mr J Claassen with 15.

Alan Manson and Trish Strachan submitted cards for 7 new pentads each, while Iain Guthrie, Barry Porter and Brian Byers submitted 2 cards each for new pentads.

These are the submissions for the fortnight from 15 - 29/03/10.

35 observers submitted 138 cards, 16 of which were for new pentads. This works out to an average of 9.9 cards / day, 1.1 new pentads / day and 3.9 cards / observer.

Trish Strachan and Ms L van Deventer submitted 15 cards each, Tim Wood 13 cards and Iain Guthrie 12 cards.

Trish submitted cards for 12 new pentads, Malcolm Rivett 2, and Ernst Retief and Alan Manson 1 each.

Thanks to all who contributed, and keep up the good work.

Last 37 Days Cards for KZN

316 cards were submitted between 11 January 2010 and 17 February 2010 by 68 observers. 33 cards were for new pentads.

This equates to 8.5 cards / day, 4.6 cards / observer and 0.89 new pentads / day.

Well done and many thanks to all who contributed.

Priority QDGC's in KZN

The QDGC colours have changed again slightly since the last post. This time Barry Porter has added a pentad in 3029DD, so we are now down to three boundary QDGC's, along with our two core QDGC's that are still empty.

Northern KZN have also moved 2730CB from 33% coverage to more than 33%.

Well done to all involved with these efforts.