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OBIS Python client
https://iobis.github.io/pyobis
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which vertical datum do we use in OBIS? #75

Closed ayushanand18 closed 1 year ago

ayushanand18 commented 2 years ago

Overview

Some endpoints in OBIS ask for an additional z coordinate over (x,y) for a location. I hope z means vertical datum here. So, which particular datum do we follow - WGS 1984 or NAD 1983?

One of the endpoints that ask for (x, y, z) is occurrences/tile/{x}/{y}/{z}

A sample query:

https://api.obis.org/v3/occurrence/tile/1/1/1?scientificname=mola%20mola
MathewBiddle commented 2 years ago

I'm fairly certain it's WGS 1984

MathewBiddle commented 2 years ago

@albenson-usgs is this true?

albenson-usgs commented 2 years ago

Yes WGS84 is what is required for OBIS and GBIF.

ayushanand18 commented 2 years ago

Noted, thank you!