The document provides instructions for analyzing stoat trap data in a GIS system. It instructs the user to select the layer with trap data, look up records for "stoat" catches, and save the selected stoat records as a new file. It then provides additional instructions for editing the data, counting trap frequencies, styling the map symbols, and displaying the final stoat distribution map from the trap data analysis.

2. Select the layer with trap data, right
click to find the ‘attributes’.

3. Look up ‘stoat’ in the ‘catch’
attributes, and ‘Search’

4. “Show selected only”

5. Selected records of each stoat = 1.
Start editing, and use field calculator

6. Save selection as a new file
Right click layer, and ‘Save Selection As’.
N.B. Yellow pencil shows you are editing

8. Use ‘Points in Polygon’ too to count
frequency of stoats

9. Trap ALF34 caught 3 stoats

10. Use “Style” to make map more
meaningful

11. Change symbol size and colours

12. Symbols – trqnsparent where ‘zero’

13. Stoats – final distribution map

14. Trap data – weasels selected

15. Weasels - analysed and displayed