Closed adhornsby closed 1 year ago
@adhornsby these merges can't happen because the localities are not the same. They either have a different elevation or coordinate error. This kind of "merging" requires someone to make changes to a locality so that it is EXACTLY the same as another. Right now I see 4 versions of 7385 Beryl Lane
LOCALITY_ID | HIGHER_GEOG | SPEC_LOCALITY | MINIMUM_ELEVATION | MAXIMUM_ELEVATION | ORIG_ELEV_UNITS | LOCALITY_REMARKS | PRIMARY_SPATIAL_DATA | DEC_LAT | DEC_LONG | MAX_ERROR_DISTANCE | MAX_ERROR_UNITS | DATUM | GEOREFERENCE_SOURCE | GEOREFERENCE_PROTOCOL |
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10937835 | United States, Montana, Missoula County | Missoula; 7385 Beryl Lane | 1038 | 1038 | m | ; VERBATIMELEVATION: 1038; VERBATIMLATITUDE: 46.819413; VERBATIMLONGITUDE: -114.10041; VERBATIMCOORDINATESYSTEM: decimal degrees | point-radius | 46.81941 | -114.1 | 100 | m | World Geodetic System 1984 | not recorded | not recorded |
10939221 | United States, Montana, Missoula County | Missoula; 7385 Beryl Lane | 1039 | 1039 | m | ; VERBATIMELEVATION: 1039; VERBATIMLATITUDE: 46.819413; VERBATIMLONGITUDE: -114.10041; VERBATIMCOORDINATESYSTEM: decimal degrees; GEOREFERENCEREMARKS: Coordinates given | point-radius | 46.81941 | -114.1 | 100 | m | World Geodetic System 1984 | not recorded | not recorded |
11859501 | United States, Montana, Missoula County | 7385 Beryl Lane, Missoula | ||||||||||||
11964955 | United States, Montana, Missoula County | 7385 Beryl Lane, Missoula | assuming 7385 Beryl Lane is the same as 7385 Beryl Drive | point-radius | 46.81947 | -114.1 | 56 | m | World Geodetic System 1984 | GeoLocate | GeoLocate |
If you make them all exactly the same, I believe they will merge on their own over time.
@Jegelewicz I thought the point of putting "ignore" in the other fields was that the search would ignore those fields? That's what it looked like from the video (which I understand is a bit old at this point.)
I'm doing a lot of locality clean-up right now (the Beryl Lane example is one of MANY) and it's going to be really time-consuming & error prone for me to manually update every duplicate. Is that really the best way to handle all of these, or is there another option?
The manual merge tool should be fixed (or removed, but this seems like good evidence that it's still useful).
@dustymc so it ain't working? Do I need to file an issue?
@dustymc can we get this working?
Error Text
An error has occurred! May we suggest: On search pages, make sure you do not have values in fields that you do not mean to be there. Or try filling in fewer fields, the more likely to get a match. You may not have sufficient privileges to perform that operation. Consult with your supervisor or Arctos mentor.
Where it happened
https://arctos.database.museum/duplicateLocality.cfm
Steps to get there
Attempting to merge 8 variations of 7385 Beryl Lane (MT: Missoula County). I get an error similar to above when the page first loads, before I change anything. When I try to search the pith (7385 Beryl) in SPEC_LOCALITY, I get a similar error regardless of whether I change the remaining fields to ignore, NULL, or leave them empty. (Trying to follow the Arctos georef video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuP-hr6yvCU, merge localities starting at 29:30.) Similar errors with other localities I'm wanting to merge.
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