Biologer / Biologer

Software for community aided collection of species distribution data
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Records that (erroneously) show location below sea level #138

Open djozsi opened 1 year ago

djozsi commented 1 year ago

Mainly an aesthetic issue: some erroneous data in the elevation table (on the main page - as shown in attached examples) show records below the 0 m sea line. That confuses and spoils the appearance of the table, plus there are no places in Serbia below sea level.

This is a bug report, but not of our system. It's an outside issue: sometimes the GPS of phones, possibly for signal shortage, fails, and shows one standing in ground that appears to be few meters below sea level. Miloš says it might be a bug of the Android and iOS version of Biologer.

Is there a possibility to electronically "hunt down" these records and automatically correct them maybe to 0 sea level? And maybe to set up a "barrier" that will prevent future below 0 m records?

Update: Miloš says it might be possible to sort the erroneous data out and correct those records manually. Basically, this report is a reminder of the issue, so we don't forget this task :)


For clarification: the deepest point of Serbia is 40 meters, of Vojvodina around 70 meters with the deepest lake being „Provala“ near Vajska with 19 meters! (We shouldn't count the deep waters such as the 1000 m deep Jezero Perućac :) and the caves and mining holes – even the deepest canyon is around 250 m above sea level.) accipiter nisus cichorium intybus

djozsi commented 1 year ago

Looking at the species - Accipiter nisus and Cichorium intybus - those guys weren't inside a lake or down a cave. :)

djozsi commented 1 year ago

An example. I am trying to manually fix this one by locating it on the map. It is very easy: (1) open the record (2) on the map zoom to the place (3) move the marker few meters away. It will show the height of the place. (4) save record. example