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Description of download interface to build calls to the Movebank database using HTTP/CSV or JSON/JavaScript requests
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Some Movebank standard reference data fields not automatically recognized #4

Open peterdesmet opened 6 years ago

peterdesmet commented 6 years ago

@sarahcd Not sure if this is the right place to log data upload issues, but I wanted to document it none the less.

Steps:

  1. Create a csv in the Movebank standard reference data format
  2. Write all column names in lowercase + dashes (e.g. tag-id)
  3. Upload file
  4. All column names are automatically recognized and mapped, except for:

These might be a reupload issues, as that is what I have been doing (overwriting existing deployments)

sarahcd commented 6 years ago

I've added a task for us to check which fields map automatically and fix it where they should, like for ring-id. As you mention, we would not want fields to map automatically if the user needs to confirm the format, units or mapping of values.