Feature Request - higher geography spatial lookup?

dustymc commented 2 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

We can find geography by spatial data. (Sorta/sometimes, see https://github.com/ArctosDB/arctos/issues/4755.) There are no tools to do this. There should be, maybe.

Describe what you're trying to accomplish

Save work where possible.

Describe the solution you'd like

Possibilities:

New lookup service, input spatial data (eg coordinates + error), output smallest containing geography.
Change documentation - use no specific higher geography (from https://github.com/ArctosDB/arctos/issues/4703) and don't worry about asserting geography when there's spatial data. ("Place terms" still make things discoverable by string-geography.)
New (fake) value in catalog record bulkloader - accept 'just_use_best_match' (some string that's not actually higher_geography) in higher_geog, find appropriate geography on the fly.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Kludge on.

Additional context

Needs discussion. Do we actually get data with coordinates and without geography, are we comfortable with any of the above, ???? Let's don't build things that won't get used, and lets focus on building things that will.

Priority

Might be high for the next new collection, but not stopping me from doing anything.

Jegelewicz commented 2 years ago

Maybe check this out?

https://vimeo.com/668792975

dustymc commented 2 years ago

Geography is not hierarchical, at least when it's the mishmash of places and politics we have.

Did I miss something spatial in there?

Jegelewicz commented 2 years ago

Nothing spatial - but trees.....

dustymc commented 2 years ago

trees

What's the parent of France?

Jegelewicz commented 2 years ago

Man I was looking at the functionality as for object tracking....

ewommack commented 2 years ago

What's the parent of France?

Maybe the continental shelf it sits on?

dustymc commented 2 years ago

the continental shelf it sits on

That narrows it right down!

dustymc commented 1 year ago

Don't think this is necessary in the current model, just assert 'not saying' with decent coordinates and Arctos will figure it out.

dustymc commented 1 year ago

undeadenating this per conversation with @mkoo - might be some use case for magicking assertive geography

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Feature Request - higher geography spatial lookup? #4785