Aaron Steele

Good catch! The sbt-assembly [docs](https://github.com/sbt/sbt-assembly#excluding-jars-and-files) offers a clue on how to resolve this. If we add this to `brushfire-scalding/build.sbt`: ``` scala run in Compile

@robgur,@tucotuco Good to find something that integrates with Mapnik, like PostGIS: http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/OptimizeRenderingWithPostGIS But I'm also looking at some NoSQL options too. CouchDB has some spatial support (http://vmx.cx/cgi-bin/blog/index.cgi/category/CouchDB), as does Cassandra...

Done and deployed: http://demo.mol-lab.appspot.com/admin/sandbox/map Other remaining metadata tasks that are critical for demo? Feedback from Rob and Walter needed. Closing issue in the meantime.

Need to load ecoregion set metadata (John will do this).

So we have common names in SpeciesIndex.names list from COL, but not grouped. So there's ['american', 'pika'] but not ['american pika']. Buuut, weasel and marten don't show up. So need...

This issue is related to #71. The path forward requires a database. Reopening issue with labels Priority-High and Status-Accepted.

> Appreciate the re-open after mistakenly closing this. Hitting "Comment" now not "Comment and Close". Ha, yeah, I do that a lot. I think the comment button should be blue...

John, what metadata should be visible at this point?

via email from Dan: "The revised reserve species lists are now in Dropbox\MoL\PolygonalOccs. The 3 files which have the new occurrence list by reserve are: MammalData.xls AmphData.xls BirdData.xls"

Right, so in figuring out if we'll have time for this, we kinda need to know how soon we can get these data and also what form will they take.