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Making searches by "Administrative Area" reliable #130

Open albenson-usgs opened 3 years ago

albenson-usgs commented 3 years ago

I noticed an issue come into the GBIF portal feedback and wondered if a user would experience the same results in the hosted portals. The answer is yes. image

For users of the current BISON portal it's important for them to be able to select observations by state or county. I had thought the Administrative Areas/GADM search filter would provide this functionality but I'm not sure it will provide the same functionality.

I have two concerns with what's being displayed when I try searching for Marion County, Texas using Administrative Areas:

  1. Texas is not displayed so it cannot be selected and you cannot simply type "Marion Texas" and click enter.
  2. The options that come back include areas outside of the United States. It would be nice if there was a way to limit what the user can select based on the geographic scope of the portal. (I realize this may have to go into the future enhancements bucket).

I also tried using the Keyword Search and typing "Marion Texas" but the results that come back are from throughout the US. https://hp-bison.gbif-staging.org/data?filter=eyJtdXN0Ijp7InEiOlsiTWFyaW9uIFRleGFzIl19fQ%3D%3D&view=map

Would it be possible to incorporate consecutive filtering so that first you select Country= "United States", then select State = "Texas", then select County = "Marion"?

Related issue https://github.com/gbif/portal-feedback/issues/3044

tucotuco commented 3 years ago

I agree that the current method is problematic. Imagine a really common case, such as Santa Cruz, where there are about 125 at admin level 2 alone. Across all admin levels I think Santa Cruz is second only to San Isidro, with more than a thousand combos.

On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 7:12 PM Abby Benson @.***> wrote:

I noticed an issue https://github.com/gbif/portal-feedback/issues/3364 come into the GBIF portal feedback and wondered if a user would experience the same results in the hosted portals. The answer is yes. [image: image] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7586150/114467817-b39a2700-9ba7-11eb-8dc6-a83b9f7de785.png

For users of the current BISON portal it's important for them to be able to select observations by state or county. I had thought the Administrative Areas/GADM search filter would provide this functionality but I'm not sure it will provide the same functionality.

I have two concerns with what's being displayed when I try searching for Marion County, Texas using Administrative Areas:

  1. Texas is not displayed so it cannot be selected and you cannot simply type "Marion Texas" and click enter.
  2. The options that come back include areas outside of the United States. It would be nice if there was a way to limit what the user can select based on the geographic scope of the portal. (I realize this may have to go into the future enhancements bucket).

I also tried using the Keyword Search and typing "Marion Texas" but the results that come back are from throughout the US. https://hp-bison.gbif-staging.org/data?filter=eyJtdXN0Ijp7InEiOlsiTWFyaW9uIFRleGFzIl19fQ%3D%3D&view=map

Would it be possible to incorporate consecutive filtering so that first you select Country= "United States", then select State = "Texas", then select County = "Marion"?

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MortenHofft commented 3 years ago

Same as https://github.com/gbif/portal-feedback/issues/3044 Any API changes will benefit all. UI changes will have to be implemented twice (once for GBIF.org + once for the hosted portals)

albenson-usgs commented 3 years ago

The closing of issue #136 doesn't fix this issue, right? If it does, a demonstration on how to do it would help.

MortenHofft commented 3 years ago

No it does not solve this issue. That would have been nice though

MortenHofft commented 2 years ago

I've changed the threshold to include more results. It is more of a bandaid than a solution, but it does "solve" the issues I have seen reported so far. But it leaves it to the user to shift through more results. I have also suggested some specific improvements to the API that I believe would solve it more properly https://github.com/gbif/portal-feedback/issues/3044#issuecomment-924766244

Having a way to browse location top down (country > state > county in us context) would still be a nice feature, but I believe better search could take us a long way.