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outdated delimitation #46

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
From: Håkan Wittzell

The country page for South Africa 
(http://data.gbif.org/countries/ZA) shows a 
cluster of isolated records on the mid west coast 
of Namibia. Most of them (but not all) seem to 
represent the Walvis Bay area, which South Africa 
refused to leave when Namibia became independent. 
However, the Walvis Bay area is an integrated 
part of Namibia since 1994.

The different kinds of country delimitation 
errors that I have seen on the new portal seem 
rather strange. Instead of a polygon or grid 
square based delimitation, is GBIF using some 
kind of cross-referencing among datasets, so that 
correct coordinates will be rejected if they are 
only reported in one dataset (the example of 
Greece), and incorrect coordinates will be 
accepted, if they are reported in several 
datasets (the above example of South Africa)?

Best regards,

Håkan Wittzell

Original issue reported on code.google.com by josecua...@gmail.com on 31 Jul 2009 at 2:10