15826
Reporter: feedback bot
Type: Bug
Summary: Presumed negated longitude appears wrong
Description: Bad geocoding for shetlands?
Priority: Critical
Status: Open
Created: 2014-06-03 17:35:09.927
Updated: 2016-04-15 10:04:28.756
Author: trobertson@gbif.org
Created: 2014-06-04 08:17:07.847
Updated: 2014-06-04 08:17:07.847
Looking at the species map, I *suspect* this point is showing in the correct position as it clusters nicely with others.
The verbatim has longitude -1.491 which is in international waters, but the country is stated as GB.
We then do our processing, and find that reversing it returns GB:
http://api.gbif.org/v0.9/lookup/reverse_geocode?lng=1.44911&lat=60.50984
Thus we swap it, and flag it as presumed negative longitude (perhaps we need to change this text to say "Longitude has been negated since it was presumed incorrect" as it is currently ambiguous).
Author: omeyn@gbif.org
Comment: Correction: the original long appears correct - it's an inlet/fjord in the shetlands. It appears to be falling through the gap btw EEZ and Political but the bug is then why is fuzzy lookup not working.
Created: 2014-06-04 08:21:07.112
Updated: 2014-06-04 08:21:07.112
Author: mblissett
Created: 2016-01-13 18:43:38.736
Updated: 2016-01-13 18:43:38.736
Updated URL: http://api.gbif.org/v1/geocode/reverse?lat=60.50983581659654&lng=-1.4491129091895072 (still returns [], maybe newer data will help).