inconsistency and redundancy in flags?

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inconsistency and redundancy in flags? #5496

Open tobiasgf opened 1 month ago

tobiasgf commented 1 month ago

Looking at the flags for this occurrence: https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/4537288373

It seems that "country is derived from coordinates" is what was done and thus correct. But the the same flag is repeated for: country code, geodetic datum, lat and long. I would think that

country code is "inferred" from country (just as continent is inferred (from country?))
the repeated flag for geodetic datum, lat and long seem redundant and misplaced?

MortenHofft commented 1 month ago

For reference: defined in this API call https://api.gbif.org/v1/enumeration/interpretationRemark/

MattBlissett commented 1 month ago

I think it's displayed that way as these are the fields relevant for the country interpretation — a weird datum could mean we misunderstand the coordinates and pick the wrong country.

Continent isn't highlighted with an issue as we only introduced interpretation relatively recently, and didn't want to mark everyone's data as wrong. The data source for the continents probably needs some documentation before we do that.