What Wildbook should this feature be in?
Amphibian and Reptile Wildbook
What would you like to see?
Could you please add a new location ID named “FSWBD”? (It is not nested within another existing locatioon in the hierarchy)
How would this functionality help you?
If requesting a new location ID, include
- Is this is nested beneath another location in the hierarchy?
- 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!
Hi @Franziska.Leonhardt
We’re moving away from location ID names that are not easily understood by other users. What is FSWBD short for?
Hi Anastasia,
FSWBD is a shot form for our citizen science project. So it is not really a location, since we get reports from various locations within Saxony/Germany. Therefore the location ID FSWBD would have been a good possibility for me to match new bulk imports against all encountres from the project (as the only alternative to match only against encountres within a project is manually starting the matching for every single encounter). If you need a location ID that is easily understandable for other users “Saechsische Schweiz” would work. However, this would be rather confusing for other users as not all reports are actually from within the region Saechsische Schweiz (due to their origin from a Citizen Science project, as explained above).
Thanks for clarifying! I think the better approach is for you to create a project for FSWBD and add the encounters from your citizen science project to it (while making sure the actual locations are recorded for each encounter). From the match page, you’ll see a dropdown menu that will let you select your project so that you’re only shown match candidates from your project.
The problem with treating FSWBD as its own location is that if someone else reports the same individual that’s not associated with your project, then it would be excluded from match results because the locations don’t match. Wildbook uses both the species and location ID to when analyzing match candidates.