Accesses parasite occurrence records from the London Natural History Museum's Host-Parasite database, which contains over a quarter of a million helminth records.
Below are a list of enhancements that need to be made sometime in the next month or so
Taxonomic information for hosts and parasites needs to be obtained through Catalogue of Life. This also needs to serve as a check to remove garbage entries (e.g. (freshwater_fish)) and to change names to the accepted name.
Allow user to query by parasite or host taxa. This one is a little tougher, as the NHM doesn't give data on host and parasite taxa, so it'd require getting all hosts and parasites at species level, getting taxonomic data from Catalogue of life, and then collapsing the data down to whatever taxanomic level the user wants it at. This means that querying at higher levels will not cause any speed up of some admittedly slow code. Ideas?
listLocations uses geocode currently. I don't know how to check to make sure it's grabbing the correct coordinates, apart from manually checking every entry that it found coords for.
Below are a list of enhancements that need to be made sometime in the next month or so
listLocationsusesgeocodecurrently. I don't know how to check to make sure it's grabbing the correct coordinates, apart from manually checking every entry that it found coords for.