Description of need:
Currently species maps (as shown under the Map tab of a species description) include points for all observations, Needs ID and Research Grade. This leads to incorrect species maps every time someone incorrectly IDs something that is out of range.
Feature request details:
Add a toggle option to only show Research Grade observations on the species maps. This would not affect searches for all observations of a species, only the maps associated with the species description.
Iâd love to be able to toggle off the obscured observations, so it was easier to see the actual observed range of a species. Maybe in combination with obscuring anything over a certain location uncertainty, say 500 meters. Maybe too hard to program, but the obscured points sure make the maps hard to view. (but i know some species have ONLY obscured points so this would be âŚpointless⌠in that case :D )
Cnidarians would miss many obs in at least the Pacific if only RG were included. Even more so for other marine invertebrates. I have no problem with a toggle.
Iâd vote for this being an additional option to check, but not for it to be the only or default view.
In areas where there arenât a lot of observers or identifiers itâs common to have accurate identification on observations, but no confirming ones, and in many developing nations itâs very common to find that certain species are found outside their âofficialâ ranges.
I canât support this feature request as itâs currently formulated, but if it were reworked to make it an addition to the view, then sure.
As everyone (myself included, now) seems to prefer the option of toggling between all observations and RG observations, I have updated the feature request to reflect that.
Yes! Iâve been wanting this functionality for years. I would go so far as to say that species maps should only show Research Grade observations by default, with the option of turning on a Needs ID layer.
i donât think needs ID should default to off but either way, if it is viable coding-wise i think the selection you choose should be âstickyâ and remain over time. If i turn them on i would like them to stay on later for other maps as well.
The way I interpreted the orignal post is that the request was to only display RG observations on taxon maps on taxon pages, and that whatâs displayed on the map is what determines âseen nearbyâ on CV suggestions. So my response was basically that whatâs shown on the taxon map is not necessarily what used for âseen nearbyâ becuase currently the taxon page maps show all verifiable observations by default and âseen nearbyâ only uses RG observations or observations that would be RG if they werenât captive (see this FAQ).
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Could we have a personal setting for the default view on distribution maps?
I already appreciate the Satellite view default.[/quote]
Youâd like it to be separate from all the other map views on the site?
I agree with this. Could the toggle option, if implemented, be set as a preference or default per individual account? So that one person could default to all verifiable obs shown and a second person could default to only RG obs shown.
(I will look out for the or captive option)
But I have definitely fallen over - Seen Nearby - where there is - only one obs with one ID so NOT Research Grade. Only a âmaybe itâs this?â
Will bring an example back here when I see it happen again.
If I remember correctly that is not a âliveâ tool, so for your example you would need to consider and exclude cases where a taxon was RG and subsequently got corrected.
Donât know how often the âseen nearbyâ suggestions are refreshed