globalbioticinteractions / nomer

maps identifiers and names to other identifiers and names
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add spatial reasoning to nomer to help disambiguate meaning based on where a organism was found #87

Open jhpoelen opened 2 years ago

jhpoelen commented 2 years ago

Suggest to use geographic range maps included in taxonomies to help say something like:

  1. match name "XYZ"
  2. only include matches from South East Asia / India
  3. save a resulting name alignment

Alternatively, you can use lat/lng grid cells:

  1. match name "XYZ"
  2. only include matches in a boundary box defined by minLat/maxLat/minLng/maxLng
  3. save a resulting name alignment

Example of names that would benefit from this:

@n8upham shared "Peromyscus maniculatus split from 1 to 5 species"

Kendra Phelps @kephelps shared

where the species may occur in different regions.