Have been thinking about this a little, and a few thoughts :
The Census is really important in the Parosphromenus Project, and the aim is to follow the status of each species. This is the way to get the overall picture of how any species is doing in private stocks. Secondary it gives the opportunity to see where off spring is, but this is only secondary.
To have a seperate Census would in my opinion not be good, – it would risk becoming confusing and unstructured.
It would be much better if many more from UK took part in it, – and perhaps we could ask Benjamin Wilden if it was possible to indicate which countries are involved, just by adding initials of country. Then it was possible to see who was based in UK.
But I think that we should be careful to keep the original purpose for the Census seperate from any lists of breeders or off spring.
But another thing is, – that initially when we started this homepage we had the intention of making a ‘members map’, for excatly the purpose which John is mentioning, – that it would be possible for members to see where other members live nearby.
To make this map became very difficult because some people write their adress, some dont, – some say yes its allright it can be seen public, some dont want that. And with so many countries it became really confusing. So I asked that we stopped it this way.
But this doesnt mean that I dont have maps of members, – I have just split them up in smaller areas, and they are not publicly available. But it is quite possible to make it so that a specifik group of user can access a particular map.
At present, I do have a UK map 🙂 … and I can make it so that it can be visible to a specifik group of users (UK members ? ) It is also quite possible to use this map as an information ‘tool’ – anything could be written in these maps, – it can be anonymous and say 1 person is living here, – or it can say name, adress, – you could even use it to enter who has what species – .
The problem with it now, is that for example in our adress list I have 22 mail adresses, – but only about 6 or 7 with adresses that could be put into a map.
If such a map should work, there would have to be some guidelines around it, – and it is of course also a work to be done. But I would be happy to help if you wanted to make it.