map legend for eco-regions displays codes only instead of human-readable name of a particular region

[Bibiko]

The map legend displays the short_description for each variable. For EcoRegions only the code are stored as short description which is not human-readable. Suggestion: We change the data source (datasets/TEOW/codes.csv) à la:

description               short_description Everglades (NT0904) Everglades

Comments?

[xrotwang]

I would argue that for someone vaguely familiar with these ecoregions the ID is human readable, and also contains Info about category and macroarea. Am 10.08.2017 08:54 schrieb "Hans-Jörg Bibiko" notifications@github.com:

The map legend displays the short_description for each variable. For EcoRegions only the code are stored as short description which is not human-readable. Suggestion: We change the data source à la:

description short_description Everglades (NT0904) Everglades

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[Bibiko]

@xrotwang this can be the case but for those who are not familiar with these codes there's no way to be able to link a name like Everglades to code NT0904 within the user interface.

[xrotwang]

I'm not really in favor of changing the CSV data. This would

• introduce redundancy and
• make it more difficult to access the eco region's scientific code which e.g. can be used to construct links to the WWF site: https://www.worldwildlife.org/ecoregions/NT0904

I'm also not sure the human readable name of an eco region would make it any more usable in analyses.