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MetacatUI: A client-side web interface for DataONE data repositories
https://nceas.github.io/metacatui
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Static map showing wrong location #1606

Closed laurenwalker closed 2 years ago

laurenwalker commented 3 years ago

The bounding box here should be in Greenland:

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laijasmine commented 3 years ago

seems like a reoccurring issue specifically for Greenland. Another dataset with the same issue

laijasmine commented 2 years ago

another ticket with this issue at the ADC - dataset

amoeba commented 2 years ago

Maybe I'm missing something, but from the coordinates above, it looks like the map is "correct" and that the person who entered the metadata entered things backwards. For a bounding box in Greeland, the eastern boundary will be a larger number than the western boundary but, in this case, the eastern boundary is smaller. It's a bit of a head scratcher and maybe I have it wrong? Thoughts, @laijasmine?

laijasmine commented 2 years ago

Thanks for catching that @amoeba! I think you are right that the east west coordinates just need to be swapped. I have tested it here for my own sanity: https://test.arcticdata.io/view/urn%3Auuid%3A1f3e4a22-5c59-4cc1-9e87-e74db6226172

The way it is laid out it is a lot easier for me to spot if there is a swap in the North South coordinates but not so much in the east west coordinates. I'm wondering if anything can be changed i the UI to help make entering the information more accurate?

amoeba commented 2 years ago

I think we can do a lot better, yeah. We already have a ticket, https://github.com/NCEAS/metacatui/issues/425, describing adding an interactive map to the editor so users can verify their coordinates on a map. I think that'd make any mistakes very obvious.

laijasmine commented 2 years ago

sounds good. In the meantime I'll look into correcting those datasets

laurenwalker commented 2 years ago

Closing as this looks to be resolved.