trias-project / ad-hoc-checklist

🍀 Ad hoc checklist of alien species in Belgium
https://trias-project.github.io/ad-hoc-checklist
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Many ways to express native range #23

Open peterdesmet opened 6 years ago

peterdesmet commented 6 years ago

In contrast with our other checklist, the native ranges are expressed in a number of ways here, e.g.:

Cape Verde Is., Africa, Madagascar, Comoros
Mediterranean to Turkey, Israel
Probably native to North America only
Africa | Asia

@qgroom @timadriaens Do you want to support all those values? It's probably the only way to express some of the information, but can we then decide to:

timadriaens commented 6 years ago

origin is in the breakdowns of the indicators so some forms of standardization would be nice

peterdesmet commented 6 years ago

Leaving this issue open until it is tackled by @timadriaens or @qgroom

LienReyserhove commented 3 months ago

@timadriaens is this still valid?

origin is in the breakdowns of the indicators so some forms of standardization would be nice

Standardization of the native range will take us a lot of time and is imo not desirable. We could try to enforce the use of |, that might be the best option.