As a researcher, I want to search records by place name (island), so that I can easily summarise the documented biodiversity of that area

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Reporter: ahahn
Type: NewFeature
Summary: As a researcher, I want to search records by place name (island), so that I can easily summarise the documented biodiversity of that area
Description: "[I am] writing a paper on the plant genetic resources of the Greek island XXX in the Ionian Sea. I would be grateful if you could assist me by sending a download of all plant information from GBIF related to that island, so that I could summarise the number of species etc. documented in GBIF for that island." (19.6.12)
Priority: Major
Resolution: Fixed
Status: Closed
Created: 2012-06-27 16:22:34.84
Updated: 2017-10-06 15:29:41.108
Resolved: 2017-10-06 15:29:41.093

Author: ahahn@gbif.org
Created: 2012-06-27 16:25:27.625
Updated: 2012-06-27 16:25:27.625
        
may require:
- searchable (standardised, indexed) place names for (natural) geographical entities (potentially also: lakes, rivers, mountains, bogs,...)
- use of lookup services / gazetteers to match coordinates against place names
    

Author: omeyn@gbif.org
Comment: [~ahahn@gbif.org] is this case handled by polygon selection in new portal?
Created: 2013-09-26 22:47:57.218
Updated: 2013-09-26 22:47:57.218

Author: ahahn@gbif.org
Comment: Polygon search would not cover for place names like rivers (hard to capture by polygon), but good enough for things like islands for now, especially in combination with a locality (name) search. Province search (see http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/OCC-250) is a bit different and should still be considered.
Created: 2013-09-27 09:51:08.51
Updated: 2013-09-27 09:51:08.51

Author: kbraak@gbif.org
Comment: If terms island or islandGroup were indexed, this type of search could be made possible. This is dependent on POR-992, extending occurrence. 
Created: 2014-01-06 16:14:45.342
Updated: 2014-01-06 16:14:45.342

Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Comment: searching island, islandGroup, locality or whatever dwc term else would only make sense if all records provided it and would also indicate all the various names for the same or overlapping places. This kind of named area search should really be done in a 2 level search, first search a placename database for an area with a polygon and then use that polygon to query occurrences. Otherwise we clearly miss far too many records or places.
Created: 2014-01-06 17:45:40.538
Updated: 2014-01-06 17:45:40.538

Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Comment: I would remove the blocking issue. If a gazateer is used this is not blocking at all
Created: 2014-01-06 17:46:37.775
Updated: 2014-01-06 17:46:37.775

Author: trobertson@gbif.org
Comment: full text search does this
Created: 2017-10-06 15:29:41.106
Updated: 2017-10-06 15:29:41.106