Jared Khan

I'd like to understand: - Why the etmerc algorithm isn't used for spheres. From reading the formula on the PROJ website (https://proj.org/operations/projections/tmerc.html#mathematical-definition) it seems it should work just fine for...

Would you happen to have references relating to the two algorithms that you could point me at? Would like to understand the different accuracies a bit better before making such...

You can have it rendered as code without the triple backticks by adding yet another level of indentation to mark it as a code block: ``` def method(): """ Bla...

Some rough notes on how search ordering works at the moment: - Popularity is not used for ordering search results in the tree of life explorer, though the search_nodes API...

### Fox case **What's curious about the results?** - The top result is a moth - Because the vernacular is an exact match, there is no competition as far as...

### Chicken case **What's curious about the results?** - A plant is the top result - The vernacular is correct - Pluralised version of the search term is at the...

### Lavender Case **What's curious about these results?** - Top result is a 'Sea Lavender' - Exact match with search term at the end of the vernacular scores pretty highly...

Yeah it's tricky. Might not be tremendous quick wins here, and probably should have at least some small, manually-chosen test data to get some rough search relevance metrics (e.g. at...

Notes about that: - Top result for lavender is a crayfish - Top result for 'zebra' is horses in general, which isn't ideal, I guess horses are popular. - butterfly...

There are definitely some suspicious vernaculars floating around: - I can't find a source that labels this crayfish as 'Broad-leaved lavender' http://localhost:8000/life/@Cambarus_laconensis=1083969 - Our DB has the source as EOL...