The UKHab Survey App should run on most contemporary devices. However, here are a few of the key things to look out for:
Yes, you can export boundary files from your current GIS and then import them for use in the UKHab Survey. You can import:
In the Records view of your UKHab project in Coreo, select the Import button from the toolbar, choose the appropriate form to import your data into (almost always the pre-survey form) and then work through the import process. This also allows you to map any existing attributes if you wish.
No.
Uploaded polygons will be imported as pre-survey data. When doing a survey using the app you base your full survey on a pre-survey habitat feature. When you do this you copy the pre-survey geometry, you don’t use it directly. This allows you to e.g. adjust the feature’s extent if required. Your pre-survey data remains untouched and another record (your full UKHab survey record) is created.
This will entirely depend on a) the condition of the shapefiles you import or b) how many nodes you add when you digitise your polygons in Coreo. Coreo doesn’t automatically create boundaries from mapping so it’s up to you how many nodes a polygon would contain when adding them.
It’s easy to get your survey results into your GIS. In Coreo, we have several output formats for you to use:
The habitat outputs from the App use the UK Habitat Classification (“UKHab”). Correspondence tables exist to help with translation into UKHab of habitat data collected using NVC and Phase 1. These are provided free on the UKHab website https://ukhab.org/. However, it should be noted that translation between survey types is not recommended, since information will always be lost in the process.