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AtlasOfLivingAustralia / species-lists

Tool for managing species lists in the ALA

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When creating a new species list the region is missing common items #70

Open adam-collins opened 4 months ago

adam-collins commented 4 months ago

When creating a new list the region field is mandatory, limited and difficult to search.

Task

Make the region field more flexible with an autocomplete mechanism.

Suggestion

Make the region field an autocomplete with support for both a selected item and free text.
Add "World" option.
Add delineation between groups of regions; Countries, States & Territories, External Territories.
Use sorting within these groups.
Support queries to https://spatial.ala.org.au/ws/search?q=, with an include filter for specific contextual layers e.g. Countries, States and Territories, CAPAD, IMCRA, IBRA, LGA, Gazetteer.

TaniaGLaity commented 2 months ago

agree add world not sure about what regions to include however, this may be a job for the UX/UI project to further define - currently regions in contextual layers is way too complex and unwieldy.