[Biogeosdi] Fwd: Auto-discard notification

Javier de la Torre jatorre at gmail.com
Tue Jun 26 22:44:15 CEST 2007


I think Donald is not on the mailing list...

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> From: biogeosdi-bounces at lists.tdwg.org
> Date: 26 de junio de 2007 22:12:59 GMT+02:00
> To: biogeosdi-owner at lists.tdwg.org
> Subject: Auto-discard notification
>
> The attached message has been automatically discarded.
> From: Donald Hobern <dhobern at gbif.org>
> Date: 26 de junio de 2007 22:13:02 GMT+02:00
> To: Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com>
> Cc: Javier de la Torre <jatorre at gmail.com>,  biogeosdi at lists.tdwg.org
> Subject: Re: [Biogeosdi] Re: Search on the GBIF REST services
>
>
> Right now the dodginess is only detected for records where we  
> interpret the Country name as a particular country and also have  
> coordinates and the coordinates do not intersect the country.  In  
> many cases we actually also determine that the latitude is negated,  
> the longitude is negated and/or the latitude and longitude are  
> transposed.
>
> Donald
>
> Tim Sutton wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Great stuff that we can now exclude dodgy / non existant  
>> occurrences -
>> we could probably make th e second (coordinate issues) option user
>> settable (or at the least a setting in our global config file).
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> 2007/6/26, Javier de la Torre <jatorre at gmail.com>:
>>> Great,
>>>
>>> I will then uncomment the code :)
>>>
>>> Javier.
>>>
>>> On 26/06/2007, at 17:24, Donald Hobern wrote:
>>>
>>> > Thanks, Javier - found the problem - will get the fix deployed
>>> > tomorrow.
>>> >
>>> > Best wishes,
>>> >
>>> > Donald
>>> >
>>> > Javier de la Torre wrote:
>>> >> Great Donald,
>>> >>
>>> >> We have now some comments to remove on the report about the GBIF
>>> >> REST service ;)
>>> >>
>>> >> Still I have an issue when using the &coordinateissues=false
>>> >> parameter
>>> >>
>>> >> This URL returns 195 records:
>>> >> http://data.gbif.org/ws/rest/occurrence/list?
>>> >> format=brief&scientificname=Puma+concolor
>>> >>
>>> >> This one none:
>>> >> http://data.gbif.org/ws/rest/occurrence/list?
>>> >> format=brief&coordinateissues=false&scientificname=Puma+concolor
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> And I suppose not all coordinates are wrong no?
>>> >>
>>> >> Cheers.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> On 26/06/2007, at 14:29, Donald Hobern wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>> Dear Javier,
>>> >>>
>>> >>> The structures are now stable.  Sorry not to have copied you on
>>> >>> my emails on what was changing.  Adding "&coordinatestatus=true"
>>> >>> should limit responses to those with coordinates.  You can also
>>> >>> use "&coordinateissues=false" to exclude records where we have
>>> >>> detected that the coordinates do not match the supplied country
>>> >>> name.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Donald
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Javier de la Torre wrote:
>>> >>>> Hey Donald,
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> I am fixing some stuff on the prototype we did in Brasil and I
>>> >>>> had to change my code to reflect the new format that the rest
>>> >>>> services are sending now. Is this more or less stable now?
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> And another question, would be possible to ask the service to
>>> >>>> return only occurrences with coordinates. For us is not of much
>>> >>>> use occurrences without coordinates.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Thats the query I am trying
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> http://newportal.gbif.org/ws/rest/occurrence/list?
>>> >>>> format=brief&minLatitude=-90&maxLatitude=90&scientificname=Puma
>>> >>>> +concolor
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Thanks in advance.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Javier.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> --
>>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>> >>> Donald Hobern (dhobern at gbif.org)
>>> >>> Deputy Director for Informatics Global Biodiversity Information
>>> >>> Facility Secretariat Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen,
>>> >>> Denmark
>>> >>> Tel: +45-35321483   Mobile: +45-28751483   Fax: +45-35321480
>>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>> >>>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > ------------------------------------------------------------
>>> > Donald Hobern (dhobern at gbif.org)
>>> > Deputy Director for Informatics Global Biodiversity Information
>>> > Facility Secretariat Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen,
>>> > Denmark
>>> > Tel: +45-35321483   Mobile: +45-28751483   Fax: +45-35321480
>>> > ------------------------------------------------------------
>>> >
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