NBN Atlas Documentation and Help Portal
Getting Started
Here you can find some quick links to help get you started with registering for and using the NBN Atlas
Use data
Guidance on how to use the data on the NBN Atlas and some important definitions relating to use.
- General guidance for using data
- Definitions of data licences
- Breach of licence conditions
- Definition of commercial and non-commercial use
- Citation and Attribution
- NBN Atlas Terms of Use
Share data
Information on how you can share your data with the NBN Atlas and guidance for doing so.
Popular questions
Read the comments or follow the links below to see if your query can be resolved. If you need further help contact us at support@nbnatlas.org.
- My login doesn’t work – make sure that you are using your email address as your user ID
- I’ve forgotten my password – click the “forgotten password” link on the login page
- FAQs
- How can I support the NBN Atlas?
- Biological Recording and Data Protection – document relating to compliance with GDPR
Search the NBN Atlas
Follow the links below to set up species and location searches as well as more advanced search options.
- Find basic species information
- View species records
- Use species lists
- View species information on a map
- Search records by location
- Use the advanced search function
- Save your searches on the NBN Atlas
- Invasive non-native species portal – guide and information
Download data
Follow the links below which will help you with downloading data and some of the considerations needed.
- Simple data download – to download data you must be logged into the NBN Atlas
- What about sensitive species?
- Data licences
Analyse data
The NBN Atlas is a powerful tool which will allow you to analyse data in many ways.
- Basic analytical functions [PDF] – such as adding species, areas and layers to a map
- Help with analysing data
- Tools
- Common map functions
API and external tools
Use the services below to query and download data from the NBN Atlas for your own websites and external applications (including GIS, analytical software). The web services can be useful tools for pulling large amounts of data or more advance search queries.
- EasyMaps
- Web Service API
- Species profile web services guidance (e.g., API for information found via https://species.nbnatlas.org) [PDF]
Access Controls
Occurrence records on the NBN Atlas may be generalised as a sensitive species or to a set public resolution specified by the Data Partner. Access Controls allow Data Partners to specify access for NBN Atlas users to the supplied location information for generalised records.
- An overview of Access Controls – a guide for Data Partners and NBN Atlas users
- Requesting accessing to supplied resolution data – a guide for NBN Atlas users
- Managing and allowing access to supplied resolution data – a guide for Data partners
- Generalisations applied to sensitive species records