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Add bird expert maps #69

Open eightysteele opened 13 years ago

eightysteele commented 13 years ago

Right, so in figuring out if we'll have time for this, we kinda need to know how soon we can get these data and also what form will they take.

eightysteele commented 13 years ago

Via Walter by email:

"Examples have been sitting in My Dropbox\MoL\ExpertMaps\BirdsSHP for a while. Essentially, we could produce maps in exact same format as the amphibian or mammal maps. Probably could get this done on Fri/Sat. Will want to consult with Dan here and potentially ask him to assist, to ensure consistency. Note that I am potentially envisioning two sources (Walter, IUCN) for the expert map type for birds, following the same data structure."

walterj commented 13 years ago

I put some examples of recent IUCN maps + metadata in My Dropbox\MoL\ExpertMaps\Birds_NewBL . Will reproject (to Mercator) and rename that before use, but would like to retain fields in dbf and display by filtering 2-3 of the fields. OK?

eightysteele commented 13 years ago

Will reproject (to Mercator) and rename that before use

SGTM. Please update this issue when they are reprojected.

Would like to retain fields in dbf and display by filtering 2-3 of the fields.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean here. What do you mean by "display by filtering 2-3 of the fields"?

walterj commented 13 years ago

Only display areas where field ORIGIN = 3 and PRESENCE = 1

tucotuco commented 13 years ago

Walter, need clarification on this issue. The files you gave us to load most recently in two big zip files named BOWmerc*.zip had no properties called ORIGIN and PRESENCE. We loaded everything that was in there to the metadata for those layers (OccCode, Latin, EditsInfo, Citation).

walterj commented 13 years ago

This is because these were not IUCN range maps, but Walter range maps. The expert range map type will have sources with fields that have different names and meanings. Some require several fields to characterize type of occurrence (e.g. IUCN: ORIGIN, PRESENCE, etc.), others (mine) have only one (OccCode, where 1 = breeding-only, 2= year-round resident, 3 = non-breeding only, 4 = 1 or 2).

Walter

-----Original Message----- From: tucotuco [mailto:reply@reply.github.com] Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 11:10 PM To: Jetz, Walter Subject: Re: [MOL] Add bird expert maps (#69)

Walter, need clarification on this issue. The files you gave us to load most recently in two big zip files named BOWmerc*.zip had no properties called ORIGIN and PRESENCE. We loaded everything that was in there to the metadata for those layers (OccCode, Latin, EditsInfo, Citation).

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/andrewxhill/MOL/issues/69#issuecomment-1686847

walterj commented 13 years ago

Note that I will soon (few weeks) provide updated bird maps to replace many/all of the current ones. So no need to spend much more on finalization of the current lot.