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Automated flagging of common spatial and temporal errors in biological and palaeontological collection data, for the use in conservation, ecology and palaeontology.

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wrong lat long for some CSIRO sites in institutions

wcornwell opened this issue · comments

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ref<-CoordinateCleaner::institutions
knitr::kable(dplyr::filter(ref,name=="CSIRO"))

name decimalLongitude decimalLatitude city country address source type geocoding.precision.m geocoding.issue geocoding.source inside.ptoected.area.WDPAID
CSIRO 150.5132 -23.3228 Atherton AUS Tropical Forest Research Centre, Maunds Road. grbioorg NA 10 NA automatic NA
CSIRO 150.5132 -23.3228 Canberra AUS Banks Street, Yarralumla. grbioorg NA 10 NA automatic NA
CSIRO 150.5132 -23.3228 Melbourne AUS NA GBIF NA 10 NA automatic NA
commented

that lat/long looks like it's in central queensland, rather than the cities that are listed. and there are quite a lot of bad geo-locations in GBIF from the real location of the CSIRO Atherton site.