Alex, Thanks, that's a good idea. I was thinking that there are a finite number of botanical gardens, so I could simply collect coordinates for each of them, and a reasonable bounding box around each one perhaps.
Scott On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Alex Thompson <godfoder at acis.ufl.edu> wrote: > Also not something that can be done via the API, but botanical gardens > will also tend to be fairly large locality outliers (large numbers of > extremely tightly clustered points from relatively diverse taxa). Often, > I've found, many gardens are all geo-referenced to a single reference > locality, so you don't even need to do a bounding box filter, you can > just filter out specific points. > > - Alex > > On 10/07/2014 10:47 AM, Tim Robertson wrote: > > Hi Scott, > > > > There is actually no easy way of doing this. Filtering out > BasisOfRecord=LivingSpecimen would get you some of the way there, and > looking into the establishmentMeans a step further, but the some of the > data just don?t have fields to filter them out. > > > > Cheers, > > Tim > > > > > > On 07 Oct 2014, at 03:00, Scott Chamberlain <myrmecocystus at gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> Someone brought up recently whether or not they could exclude > observations from botanical gardens in GBIF occurrence searches. I think > they meant just occurrences from within actual gardens, not observations > from more natural areas in a database provided by a botanical garden. > >> > >> Is something like this already flagged as an issue in the occurrence > issue enum? I didn't see it myself. I guess one could find the data > providers that are botanical gardens and exclude those if they are in the > search results. > >> > >> Thanks for any guidance. > >> > >> Cheers, Scott Chamberlain > >> _______________________________________________ > >> API-users mailing list > >> API-users at lists.gbif.org > >> http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users > > _______________________________________________ > > API-users mailing list > > API-users at lists.gbif.org > > http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users > > _______________________________________________ > API-users mailing list > API-users at lists.gbif.org > http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.gbif.org/pipermail/api-users/attachments/20141007/d4dcc28e/attachment.html
