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Consider not inferring country when coordinateUncertaintyInMeters is above a certain level #5583

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jhnwllr opened this issue Nov 21, 2024 · 0 comments
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jhnwllr commented Nov 21, 2024

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This issue has come up before and I just wanted to bring it to your attention. For many of our specimens, we have extremely vague locality descriptions. In such cases we often put georeferences on the record with a very large error radius. The record in question right now is the following:

https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/476823297

The locality we have for this occurrence is "North Africa" and we have placed a georeference in the middle of North Africa with an error radius of 2877632m. This error encompasses all of north africa (and even southern europe for that matter). We are not asserting a value for COUNTRY. GBIF has derived a COUNTRY value of "Algeria" based on this georeference. This seems inappropriate, and has confused at least one researcher.

We could simply not provide the georeference data for points where the error radius is above a certain value, but would it be possible for GBIF to not derive more specific geography from points with an error above a certain value?

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