iRecord spanish records

Submitted by p_d_winter on

I noticed today that there were a few dragonfly records from spain in iRecord. 

What happens to these? Are they passed on to (e.g.) Observado or do they just sit in the iRecord system untouched?

Thanks

Paul

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Submitted by Gustav Clark on Sun, 30/10/2022 - 17:07

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The great strength of iRecord over platforms like iNaturalist is it's quality control.  This shows a major gap in the system.  It is quite simple to convert latitude - longitude to UK grid reference indeed it must be happening as otherwise the mapping system would collapse.  Any record falling outside this could be automatically flagged as suspect.  A 20km buffer zone could be allowed for marine records.  Insofar as many of these are plainly erroneous it would help the recorder if they were told that they had made a mistake, rather than having them ignored.