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Hunting Stand Analysis

Do you know whether your hunting stands are effective?
And above all: At what time for which animal?

This is a tool to analyze these questions.

How does it work?

To answer this question, let's look at an example.

Click into the field top left ("Your ID here..."), type in "test" and click the button "Load Data".

The data for "test" will be ready and you should now see some rows with data.

Each row represents a hunting stand. Of course it doesn't need to be a hunting stand. It also can be any place or an entire region you like to use for hunting.

The first field in a row is a label for your hunting stand, the second field the position for this. All other fields are counter for the respective animals you can see above these fields. Used fields are colored.

Edition

Before you can edit a count field you have to activate the parent row. Click one of the buttons at the end of the row, of course not the delete-button. That's to protect against enter data in the wrong line. Fields "label" and "position" can be modified anytime.

You can count calls, kills, sightings, whatever. It's your decision. If you click one of the count fields, you should see a time selection. For example: if an animal calls, you click the appropriate field (in the correct row) below this animal and choose the relevant time (e.g. if ingame-time is 15:05 you select 15:00). The counter increases by one. The time you've selected will be added to a hidden field.

The rows are sortable. Click any icon at the end of a row but hold the mousebutton and drag the row to another position.

Don't forget to save your data. To do so click the button "Save Data". Oh, I forgot: This doesn't work for the demo-account "test". But feel free to play with all other functions.

That's it for data entry.

Results

Now what about the result?

To generate a heatmap table you have to click this button.
Let's see how this looks. So click one of these symbols.

Now you should see the generated table. (Below this text field.) Any time value that you've recorded is displayed in color. The more intense the color, the more records for this time. In this way you always have a fast and nice overview of when your hunting stand is appropriate for which animal. Or at what time you've never hunt and could even try. Of course, this depends on the amount of data. The more the meaningful.

You can also generate a heat map table for a single species. To do this click one of the animal images above the counter fields. This is very useful to compare the hunting stands for a single species.

If you move the mouse pointer over a time field a display should show the count value. By clicking a time field, the corresponding column and row will be highlighted. A click on one of the animal images marks the column. If you're in the "single species-mode", a click on one of the fields in the first row (the positions) activates the corresponding data row above the table. Click on the header to remove highlighting.

Icon Buttons

At the end of each row you can find some icons.

A click on this icon activates the corresponding row. Nothing else.

Function to create a heatmap table.

A click on this icon deletes the row. (In fact, deletion occurs after data saving.)

For the next two functions, the "position" field must be present at least three parameters (comma separated). See more under "Position" and "SetUp".

Click this icon to add the position information to a text field. More about under "SetUp".

Function to create a map image with the position of the hunting stand. More about under "Position".

Position

You certainly have noticed this icon. If you click on it nothing happens except a strange message. Usually you'll feed the position field with two values: the XY-coordinates of the game world. But if you add to these values further parameters in the right way, the useless icon receives a function. This internal function sends the parameters to another tool which creates an image to display the location of your hunting stand on a map.

In the demo-account "test" is a row, labeled with "WI - Golden Treestand". Fill in the field position so that it looks as follows:

-14348 , 4986 , wi

Note: All parameters have to be comma separated!
(No need to use spaces but makes it clear.)

Now click this button at the end of the row to see what happens. It may take a moment till the tool has generated the image and can display it. But that's only the first time that way. Next time the image is already created and it'll loaded directly. (Till you change the position information.)

What have you done? You've added a map-ID to the coordinates, so the tool could get the right map to create an image.
Map IDs are easy to remember because they were taken from the linguistic usage of the forums. We all know what "VdB" means. If not (maybe you're a newbie), here's a list with valid IDs:

Large and lower case doesn't matter. But that's not all. You can add some other parameters too. These are optional and numeric. Here are the IDs for the symbols:

The same goes for the font color and circle color. All numbers between 0 (black) and 19 are valid.


Now let's add a suitable symbol for the "Golden Treestand" and other colors for font and circles.
The syntax should be like this:

-14348 , 4986 , wi , 5 , 4 , 8

Fill in the field position with this new parameters, click the icon and have a look. In this way you can customize your graphic needs.

SetUp

One of my other tools has a function called "Setup". This feature automatically creates position markers on a map if the text field has been fed with the corresponding data. You can find the tool here:

http://fumarporros.bplaced.net/thnote/

You can find some more information about the tool here:

http://forum.thehunter.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=65530&start=30

Anyway. If you click on the button , the position specification (and label indication) of this set will be added to a text box. Provided that the parameters have been entered correctly. At the same time, a link will be generated from these data, which can pass the parameters to the other tool. Of course, all positions should be found on the same territory map.

If you click one of the created links, a page should be opened with the tool.

Now you have some things to do to create a SetUp map.

Ready for your own data file?

Okay, that's really easy. First, the most difficult part: you need an ID. You can also call it password. Click the button "Clear All" and insert an ID into the field top left. Please memorize this ID. I can't help you if you forgot it because the ID will be encrypted to create a name for your data file.

Next step: add a hunting stand. So click the button "Add Hunting Stand". None of the fields must be filled out now. Just click "Save Data" and you've done. Congratulations, you've created your first data file. You can, incidentally, create as many data files as you like.

Settings

There are just some options you can change for the heatmap table. The color gradation determines how finely the differences. If you've collected a lot of data, you can increase the number. The second option let you define the color of the marking. The last option decides whether the color gradation will be calculated for each column or for all data. I think, the gradation for each column clarifies the times of each species some more.

Get JSON Data?

Never heard about the hero from Greek mythology? Just joking...

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a really cool format that uses human-readable text to transmit data. But the best: JSON is a language-independent data format. Many programming languages can handle JSON. Am I boring you? Okay, enough of this. What I really want to say: You have the ability to view (and copy) the contents of your data file. Or to download the (unformatted) data file if your browser supports it.