MapofLife/MOL — Issue #85: EE species list pointer: circle/polygon, minimum size
Author: walterj
Created: 2012-02-14 00:54:41+00:00
State: open

Our expert range maps are not accurate and should not be queried at anything finer than ca. 100km accuracy. We should offer two queries:

1) 100km diameter circle query. The default look of the pointer when in species list tool mode should be a 100km diameter circle. When double-clicked at a given location, the species list tool runs with that circle as boundary

2) With same pointer and single clicks, the user can draw a polygon for species list selection. There should be some limits on this polygon. Firmly: it should never be allowed to be smaller than 10,000km2. Ideally: It should not have portions that are narrower than 100km (this will require some complicated check though). Down the road (after 1 March) we could perhaps use the buffer_intersection query in the GEE vector library that Dave mentioned.