Add new location request

Feature Requests
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1

What Wildbook should this feature be in?
The list of locations

What would you like to see?
Addition of the option Spain.Balearics

How would this functionality help you?
I can give a good answer to the location question

If requesting a new location ID, include

  • Is this is nested beneath another location in the hierarchy?
    I am not 100% sure how to check the list but I could not find Spain in the location ID field in the encounter report page
  • Is there a prefix for region-based naming? (optional)
  • GPS coordinates (optional)

Note: Not all feature requests can be accepted, but all of them are reviewed by our product team. We’re unable to provide implementation timelines for accepted requests. We are a small team with many competing priorities. Thanks for your understanding!

2

I’ll need to dig deeper into this tomorrow, but the hierarchy will most likely look like Mediterranean Sea > Spain > Balearic Islands. The location ID code gets buggy when special characters appear in place names.

Once it’s live on the site, you’ll just use “Balearic Islands” as the location ID in your spreadsheet. I’ll talk to my teammates about retroactively updating any of your past encounters to match the new location ID name. This way when other researchers or citizen scientists report encounters in this area, matches will be more easily searchable.

Does that work for you?