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Taxa from Saint Pierre and Miquelon are shown on map as from France #65

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago
What is it that we are missing?

This is more an oddity than a bug, but all taxa from VASCAN that were reported 
in Saint Pierre And Miquelon 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon) - a group of French 
islands of the coast of Newfoundland - are shown on the map as reported in 
France:

http://ecat-dev.gbif.org/usage/100018896 (see distribution)

Although this is technically true - Saint Pierre And Miquelon are an overseas 
collectivity of France - it is still somewhat incorrect on the world map. I 
guess users should be aware, as indicated under the map: "Only distributions 
given as ISO country codes are shwon (sic) in the above world map. Please also 
see the textual distribution."

The textual distribution - although correct - as rather cryptic though: 
"iso3166 2:ca ns; iso3166 2:ca on; CA; iso3166 2:ca qc; iso3166 2:ca nb; 
iso3166 2:ca bc; iso3166 2:fr pm;"

Original issue reported on code.google.com by peter.de...@gmail.com on 31 Aug 2011 at 3:49

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago
We will focus on the new portal and hopefully find a better way to visualize 
species ditributions there. But its not on our immediate list of todos

Original comment by wixner@gmail.com on 19 Jul 2013 at 1:06