Data below -60 deg lat should be attributed to Antarctica

15936
Reporter: omeyn
Assignee: cgendreau
Type: Bug
Summary: Data below -60 deg lat should be attributed to Antarctica
Priority: Major
Resolution: Fixed
Status: Resolved
Created: 2014-06-17 13:37:14.843
Updated: 2015-12-10 10:42:55.988
Resolved: 2015-12-10 10:42:55.835
        
Description: This comes in as a issue from Anton, Node manager for SCAR. From email:

"Following the iso standard (https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:AQ) all below 60° South should be Antarctic (Territories south of 60° south latitude). Currently I have the impression that a distance of 200 nm was used. This means that a large proportion of our efforts to get data published are not easily visible as Antarctic data.

It is very important that this should be addressed.”

Additionally wikipedia reports: "The ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 "AQ" is assigned to the entire continent regardless of jurisdiction. Different country calling codes and currencies[95] are used for different settlements, depending on the administrating country."

This is a major deviation from our current country + eez geo lookup.

The count of records with lat <= -60 and countrycode not null and countrycode != 'AQ' is: 33650.

The query for lat <= -60 and lng not null gives following country codes and their respective counts:

AQ	890349
NULL	140444
US	11077
PE	8191
AU	7412
AR	2703
CO	1455
GS	1017
CL	449
EC	319
NZ	282
BO	166
FK	162
NI	79
GB	51
PG	31
BR	31
RU	28
CR	27
MX	23
EH	16
PY	16
AG	14
ZW	14
TZ	11
TF	9
FR	8
CA	8
ZA	7
VE	5
NA	4
ID	4
PA	4
BS	3
CN	3
NO	3
BW	2
ZZ	2
CU	2
SJ	1
ES	1
IT	1
GE	1
SH	1
IS	1
AO	1
SB	1
PR	1
JP	1
NC	1
DM	1
]]>
    

Author: trobertson@gbif.org
Created: 2014-06-17 14:09:49.582
Updated: 2014-06-17 14:09:49.582
        
We need the thoughts of [~mraymond] here.  Data is attributed to a single publishing or location country - we are not set up to do otherwise without serious effort.
Should a record < -60 degrees be attributed to Antarctica, meaning it won't be counted in the effort of e.g. Argentina?
I suspect not (e.g. considering who funds GBIF).

Data search exists for sub 60 degrees.

We could consider doing "data for Arctic / Antarctic" and data about... analytics reports for example but not the real time country page counts.




    

Author: omeyn@gbif.org
Comment: Seems reasonably safe to add logic that says if geo lookup returns null and lat <= -60 then AQ, which would take care of our nulls, and probably is correct, but doesn't take away anything claimed by a country.
Created: 2014-06-17 14:16:47.774
Updated: 2014-06-17 14:16:47.774

Author: mraymond
Comment: I need to discuss this with you briefly to be sure I have understood correctly but this sounds reasonable to me.  We can also point Anton to the page for SCAR: http://www.gbif.org/node/51e4e8ff-bff0-4996-8b27-9107d61b3478 which shows their data publication efforts. It might be that what he really wants is just the analytic pages for organization Participants, but doing one for Arctic/ Antarctic could be a good intermediate solution. 
Created: 2014-06-17 16:50:23.31
Updated: 2014-06-17 16:50:23.31

Author: omeyn@gbif.org
Comment: After discussion here we've decided to go with the nulls -> AQ logic I proposed above.
Created: 2014-06-18 13:53:42.438
Updated: 2014-06-18 13:53:42.438

Author: cgendreau
Comment: Just to be sure, all parties are still ok with the proposed solution?
Created: 2015-11-12 12:34:53.243
Updated: 2015-11-12 12:34:53.243

Author: cgendreau
Created: 2015-12-10 10:42:50.138
Updated: 2015-12-10 10:42:50.138
        
Proposed solution applied.
All records below -60 deg have been reinterpreted.