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Implementation of the MEDIN portal
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Incorrect northing suffix appended to coordinates in the search criteria #29

Closed homme closed 12 years ago

homme commented 12 years ago

The following email from Kay on Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:37:54 details the issue:

A user of the NERC Data Catalogue Service (formerly the NERC DDS) got very confused when entering the co-ordinates in the Geographic search box manually.

They wanted data in the area

15-17 degrees North; 61 to 63 degrees West

And correctly established that the co-ordinates box needed the values:

-63.0,15.0,-61.0,17.0

Where -63.0 (63W) is the most westerly, 15.0 (15N) is the most southerly, -61.0 (61W) is the most easterly and 17.0 (17N) is the most northerly. The search correctly returned all records which intersect this region including global data sets, but the user became confused as the results page display was wrong, i.e.

You are searching for... everything in 17.00N 15.00S -61.00E -63.00W

It appears that this display bug is also presented in the MEDIN Discovery Portal.

homme commented 12 years ago

This is fixed in commit 840ae97.