Addition of contact phone number to user profiles
Posted by AaronClausen
30 Jul 2025
In preparation for the establishment of our data feed to the NSW BioNet database, NatureMapr has added an optional phone number field to NatureMapr user profiles.
Phone number is an important contact field for decision makers who run professional citizen science programs that share formal records with NSW BioNet.
If you are contributing records in NSW and the ACT, and are comfortable with your contact phone number being shared with decision makers along with your uploaded sightings, we recommend you consider adding your phone number to your NatureMapr user profile.
This will help add further validity to the overall quality of citizen science records shared with decision makers through NatureMapr.
To update your user profile and enter your contact phone number, you can simply go to "Account settings" in your user dropdown menu (top right of screen).
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As the platform has grown and grown, we now have all kinds of people using NatureMapr for different reasons: users, customers, stakeholders, school children, professionals etc and we are responsible for safeguarding their personal information appropriately.
The optional phone number field exists for the purpose of including it with formal, verified biodiversity records that are shared with decision makers to increase the overall veracity of the record.
Phone number also provides decision makers (E.g. ACT Government, NSW Government) with the option to get in touch with a record's original author should they be interested in asking you any further questions about an important or ecologically significant record.
