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Tool for managing species lists in the ALA
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Ability to add a GIS feature to list to define the spatial boundary of the list #74 #51

Open djtfmartin opened 9 months ago

djtfmartin commented 9 months ago

Ability to add a GIS feature to define the geospatial boundary to which the list applies

djtfmartin commented 9 months ago

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TaniaGLaity commented 9 months ago

Can see that we can assign a region to a list but I can't see the map view on the metadata as shown above.

we also need ability to assign an area to an individual item on a list e.g. for threatened populations so that we can assign a boundary to define the extent of the population.

djtfmartin commented 9 months ago

The form allows users to paste in a WKT string.

The ability to assign an area to an individual is an interesting one. This is similar to what is supported in the spatial service distributions API. I think we need to be clearer on the use cases and/or think about deprecating the distributions API if that makes sense.

TaniaGLaity commented 9 months ago

we might need to get a better description of the use case from Cam Slatyer

also maybe change the text for this field to geographic coordinates (WKT format) with a link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-known_text_representation_of_geometry

djtfmartin commented 9 months ago

Description updated on the form.

TaniaGLaity commented 9 months ago

use cases from Cam

There are currently about 5-10% of species in the ALA that incorrectly display because of geographic issues intersecting with either list lists or taxonomy issues

a) there are approximately 30 threatened species delineated by geographic population and not taxonomy. These are very difficult to deal with in terms of correct display on species pages, correct list attachment and data matching. This is essential to get right

b) Delineating species that are split by geography. We frequently get species that are subdivided by taxonomy into geographic areas. There is no way of retrospectively attaching data to the new species which might be possible with a geographic area function. Recent examples include Tympanocryptis dragons (currently all completely wrong), Gaxaliid fish (about 50% of the species are completely wrong). Being able to assign a geographic area is a partial solution to this.

c) In a large number of cases where subspecies, but not species are included in lists, most of the data is attached at species and not subspecies level. Being able to tag records geographically would massively reduce this issue, affecting as it does, most birds and mammals and many plants.

djtfmartin commented 9 months ago

Needs more discussion, but if i understand correctly (and im not sure i do) this should be covered by the spatial-service distributions services + and the pipelines Expert distribution outlier checking - which we arent exposing properly in the UI currently.

Hence i think its out of scope for the lists tool and the use case is covered in other components of the ALA.

TaniaGLaity commented 5 months ago

moving to in-progress as I think this could be covered as you say above. - its not necessarily a a list issue it's a distribution per taxon issue