sightings with no locality info beyond "state/province" missing from ebird export
Issue #70
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Original issue 70 created by adam_winer on 2013-01-13T19:09:18.000Z:
<b>What steps will reproduce the problem?</b> 1. Enter a sighting for a locality specified only as a state/province 2. "Save for EBird" <b>3.</b>
<b>What is the expected output? What do you see instead?</b>
I expect to see all of my sightings (the number reported at the end of the file you get when you do "Save as HTML". Instead, the sightings without a lower-level locality (below state/province) are missing.
What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? Scythebill 0.8.6 on Mac OS 10.7.4.
<b>Please provide any additional information below.</b>
Possibly EBird per se is not interested in such vague-locality sightings, but currently "save for EBird is the only export option for getting the whole database into a flat file, hence it's frustrating to have some records missing.
As a workaround, "Browse by location" can be used to reset the locality type from "state/province" to "none" (at least for user-defined provinces outside the USA -- I haven't wanted to mess with "factory-set" states or provinces). My suspicion is that the problem is caused by the the "/" character that appears in the locality name when only the state/province is specified, but that is omitted when a lower-level locality is also given. Presumably another workaround that would work would be to invent a locality called "no locality specified".
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Comment #2 originally posted by adam_winer on 2013-01-15T01:22:37.000Z:
Specifically, see http://code.google.com/p/scythebill-birdlist/issues/detail?id=46
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Comment #3 originally posted by adam_winer on 2013-01-16T05:57:38.000Z:
In revision 311, added a full "Export..." option to the file menu which will give you all content stored by Scythebill (whether or not it's EBird-acceptable).
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Comment #1 originally posted by adam_winer on 2013-01-15T01:21:43.000Z:
Would building an export-everything-to-a-flat-file meet your needs? This is a much needed feature, one I'm happy to build. Like you say, EBird can't import sightings without any localities, but the product absolutely needs a full export so you can take your own data and use anyway you want.