[Taxacom] Data quality in aggregated datasets

[Quentin Groom]

Dear Rod,
that's really nice work of you and Bob Mesibov. You map does tend to 
emphasize the worst examples, when you look closely you realize that the 
majority are within a few km of the real location. I suspect these 
little discrepancies can be accounted for by conversion to and from 
decimal degrees and the larger ones from griding.
I'm not a fan of point and circles and this map doesn't convince me of 
its use.
Regards
Quentin


Roderic Page wrote:
> Out of curiosity I've created a Google Map visualisation of the discrepancies Bob mesiobov found between his data and that in GBIF. Some background is on my blog http://iphylo.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/gbif-data-quality-visualising-mesibov.html, and you can see the visualisation live at http://bl.ocks.org/rdmpage/raw/5501293/ (it takes a second or two to load).
>
> I found it hard to get a sense of the magnitude of the discrepancies without drawing them on a map.
>
> Regards
>
> Rod
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