elevation data recorded as depth

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Reporter: feedback bot
Assignee: jlegind
Type: Bug
Summary: elevation data recorded as depth
Status: Open
Created: 2014-09-05 20:59:01.568
Updated: 2014-09-08 12:02:05.538
        
        
Description: Hi,

I have noticed that some records from Herbario IEB del Instituto de Ecología, A.C., México (IE-BAJíO) (http://www.gbif.org/dataset/7a30c0d4-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a) show "depth" data when I think it should be "elevation", as they correspond to ocurrences of e.g. alpine plants at top of a mountain. Or am I misunderstanding something?

Hope it is of use,

Alicia

*Reporter*: Alicia Mastretta-Yanes
*E-mail*: [mailto:ticatla@gmail.com]]]>
    

Author: ahahn@gbif.org
Created: 2014-09-08 11:59:41.051
Updated: 2014-09-08 11:59:41.051
        
Valid issue: the publisher appears to have mapped values for "MinimumDepthInMeters" next to "MinimumElevationInMeters" for records that have no relation to any kind of water (where it would be meaningful to give both). It is not just a double mapping, though: often both values differ from one another, see http://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?DATASET_KEY=7a30c0d4-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a&DEPTH=0%2C*, e.g. http://www.gbif.org/occurrence/235993872 --> http://www.gbif.org/occurrence/235993872/verbatim

Suggest: contact the data publisher and verify whether the mapping needs correction (possibly check indexing status first to exclude this is an old version)