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Automatically specify the `measurmentScale` to Interval
Describe the feature you'd like
For units like Celsius, Fahrenheit, Latitude, Longitude if this is entered via the web form the measurementScale (Measurement Type on the landing page) is automatically set to ratio. Is it possible for these 4 units for us to specify the measurementScale to be interval?
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Requires the metadata to be updated outside of the webform (eg. using R) and sometimes an additional step
Example dataset (see the Tleaf attribute): https://arcticdata.io/catalog/view/urn%3Auuid%3A549fe5b7-7911-4603-9234-1c1bb5f8ca13
As an alternative, Maggie suggested recently allowing users to select between ratio and interval when the type is numeric. Fixing the measurement scale is a task that the data team has to repeat frequently, so this issue should move up in our priority list.
In a conversation with Maggie, she said: There are two different circumstances where it would be helpful to set to interval:
- When the units are Celsius and Fahrenheit, or
- when the the Measurement Types are latitude coordinate, longitude coordinate, latitude degree component, or longitude degree component (which would typically use the degree unit)