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joejcollins / captain-magenta

NBN Records Simplified
https://joejcollins.github.io/captain-magenta/
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Dedupe Species List #26

Open joejcollins opened 4 years ago

joejcollins commented 4 years ago

Add function to list species for a site without duplications.

Dedupe the list of species then like to sightings for that species. Default to list of species. Will the NBN dedupe for species at their end.

Investigate.

DanWrench commented 4 years ago

Could the dedupe list provide the most recent year the species was seen. It's far less useful if not

joejcollins commented 4 years ago

Maybe but we are tight on resources right now, I suspect that this might have to be pushed back to the next version/iteration. Any opinions @John-Handley ?

John-Handley commented 4 years ago

Presumably Dan you would want both the species and the data? A simple list would incorporate all species recorded irrelevant of date so I accept it's limited use but better than a list with duplicates. I think Joe's right, one for the next iteration and in the intervening time download the csv and sort is the alternative.

DanWrench commented 4 years ago

If resources as that right I think we should abandon this function of we can't also include the year. There aren't many sites where you get more than 3 or 4 duplicates anyway. What is this list used for? I would like a list to take out in the field to check whether a species has been recorded before. I can do this with a list with duplicates even if it means a bit more paper. But I would also make more effort to find interesting species on a list of they have been recorded in the last few decades. But I wouldn't bother too much looking for a mega rarity that was seen once in 1830 but not in more recent surveys. I'm not saying I wouldn't look at all but the year gives you more to go on. So my view would be to scrap this unless we have resources later to include the date

magscousins commented 4 years ago

I dont see this as a priority function.