Open IJBG opened 3 months ago
Date and time do not actually need to be added to mbbs_survey_events because that's information that's in the dataset already itself. The goal of survey_list is to have a stable list of all the surveys, where further information is then added (ie: all the observers processing) in survey_events, and then survey_events gets merged back over date and time are duplicate columns. What's really required here is date and time being added to the hist_xls function, and also getting date and time from the transcribed files.
But, argument FOR date and time being part of survey_events: it's important information and it's nice to see it in a snapshot where we have all this other information about the surveys. Probably time can be skipped (it's like always 5:30, part of the data collection is that set time). But date is valuable to see alongside the number of species (S) and the number of individual birds (N)
Additionally, for data that is NOT being imported from ebird or the old website, the only record for date may be in survey-list.
Not sure where this discrepancy is coming from yet (it COULD be pre-dawn owling surveys, it could be times when routes were split and done on different days eg. bc of roadwork or temporary closures) but it's probably that people have uploaded ebird entries that were missing? Requires investigation and update of survey_list. Adding new task above
Accidentally linked with #69 pull request by referencing it, this issue has not been fixed
and timeto mbbs_survey_eventsand timecolumns to the 'select' in hist_xls_match_mbbs_format