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stevenpbachman / shinygeocat

staging version of geocat shiny
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Search for POWO range map using species name rather than ID #100

Open gistin opened 9 months ago

stevenpbachman commented 9 months ago

i can take another look. We'd need to do matching first, whereas GBIF call does a fuzzy search anyway. Also not all sp. on POWO have maps, so would have to capture that.

gistin commented 9 months ago

One step a little closer would be to build the link to powo with species name ie

paste("https://powo.science.kew.org/results?q=", sp_name, sep="") ie https://powo.science.kew.org/results?q=Poa%20annua

But I am pretty sure we can ask that is only returns the accepted name. If this does not exist then we can point the user direct to powo