Add new location request

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!

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?

Checking in again! There is a federal holiday leading into the weekend here in the US, so if I don’t hear back from you by Wednesday the 27th, I won’t be able to work on this until next week.

Hi Anastasia,

My apologies I was out of the office myself, but I have read your rapid and helpful responses and I will be following up on these over the next week. Any further queries I will have no problem waiting a week or so. Thank you so much for your help.

Best,

Luke

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Sorry got my threads mixed yes Balearic Islands is fine and updating where I have used Spain.Balearics to that is fine too.

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Balearic Islands have been added as a location in Flukebook.

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Quick update: The location ID for any old encounters under “Spain.Balearics” have now been updated to “Balearic Islands”

Wonderful thank you so much!

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