coordinateAccuracy interpretation

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Reporter: rdmpage
Type: Bug
Summary: coordinateAccuracy interpretation
Priority: Major
Status: Open
Created: 2014-05-20 16:33:45.039
Updated: 2014-05-20 16:33:45.039
        
Description: There seems some ambiguity regarding "coordinateAccuracy". I assumed this was same as Darwin Core coordinatePrecision  http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/#coordinatePrecision, and so is in units of decimal degrees. However, http://www.gbif.org/occurrence/773259491 has coordinateAccuracy of 10.0 (see http://api.gbif.org/v0.9/occurrence/773259491) Interpreted as degrees, this is about 1,000,000m (!). However, looking at the same occurrence in Arctos http://dx.doi.org/10.7299/X7VQ32SJ, the error is given as 10 m. In other words, coordinateAccuracy should have been "coordinateUncertaintyInMeters.

There seems lots of scope for people to put stuff in the wrong fields...]]>