HI Tim, Thanks for opening those issues!
I totally understand on time frame for these changes - thanks for your time :) Scott On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 9:59 AM Tim Robertson <trobertson at gbif.org> wrote: > Hi Scott, > > Thanks for your quick responses. > > > Thanks for the feedback, as always > > coordinateUncertaintyInMeters is what I wanted, thanks for pointing that > out. Does that field ever show up in search results though? e.g., from > /occurrence/search > > I haven't seen it yet, but it does show up in verbatim results, e.g. > http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/1088909149/verbatim . But in the > non-verbatim record of the same occurrence key > coordinateUncertaintyInMeters isn't in the record > http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/1088909149/ > > > That looks suspicious? http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/POR-2795 > > Anyway, my users have requested this data (i.e., > coordinateUncertaintyInMeters), but going to verbatim records for each > occurrence key seems like a tedious approach. Will > coordinateUncertaintyInMeters > be populated in the results returned by the /occurrence/search route > sometime in the future? If not, I can direct them to verbatim occurrence > records. > > > It should be the not too distant future, but we are short staffed right > now due to holidays - I?d expect around September / October realistically > before another release that involved data store changes? I wish it could be > sooner. > > Thanks, > Tim > > Best, Scott > > p.s. the occurrenceDetails field somehow got `http://unknown.org/` > <http://unknown.org/> appended to the beginning of the field name, e.g, > http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/1088909149/ - I assume that is an error > > > Indeed http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/POR-2796 > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 1:46 AM Markus D?ring <mdoering at gbif.org> wrote: > >> Hi Scott, >> coordinateAccurracy is the uncertainty radius for lat/lon in decimal >> degrees which we interpret and keep directly on the Occurrence class: >> >> https://github.com/gbif/gbif-api/blob/master/src/main/java/org/gbif/api/model/occurrence/Occurrence.java#L121 >> >> https://github.com/gbif/dwc-api/blob/master/src/main/java/org/gbif/dwc/terms/GbifTerm.java#L41 >> >> Our processing right now only recognizes dwc:coordinatePrecision as a >> source for the accurracy: >> >> https://github.com/gbif/occurrence/blob/master/occurrence-processor/src/main/java/org/gbif/occurrence/processor/interpreting/LocationInterpreter.java#L167 >> >> As you have seen there is an open issue still to also interpret the >> uncertainty in meters: >> http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/POR-1804 >> >> >> We need to check if it is never populated which would be a bug, >> Markus >> >> >> >> > On 21 Jul 2015, at 09:24, Tim Robertson <trobertson at gbif.org> wrote: >> > >> > Hi Scott, >> > >> > I don?t recall any coordinateAccurracy but I might be mistaken >> > >> > There are coordinateUncertaintyInMeters and coordinatePrecision - could >> it be those you were thinking of? We only return the verbatim values, and >> don?t do any parsing of those. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Tim >> > >> > On 20 Jul 2015, at 22:21, Scott Chamberlain <myrmecocystus at gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> Did the coordinateAccurracy used to exist and was removed at some >> point? I can see mention of it e.g., here >> http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/POR-1804?jql=text%20~%20%22coordinateAccurracy%22 >> - but perhaps it has been removed? >> >> >> >> I can see that the elevationAccuracy field is returned with many >> records, but haven't seen coordinateAccurracy in any records. >> >> >> >> Thanks! Scott >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> API-users mailing list >> >> API-users at lists.gbif.org >> >> http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > API-users mailing list >> > API-users at lists.gbif.org >> > http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users >> >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.gbif.org/pipermail/api-users/attachments/20150721/08ff1a7c/attachment-0001.html>
