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  1. J

    eBird and Birding on the move

    You have relentlessly complained about eBird as if the folks who run it are obtuse dolts who don't understand birding and use a model that is simply "wrong," and you ask me to have respect? Please. (I know some of the folks at eBird central by the way--they include several of the most skilled...
  2. J

    eBird and Birding on the move

    --A distinction is not an argument, so your first statement makes no sense. --To automatically bundle data not recorded as being in the hotspot as being seen in the hotspot would require eBird to determine the exact dimensions of every hotspot in the world on their maps. For some hotspots...
  3. J

    eBird and Birding on the move

    You are exaggerating. eBird makes it very easy to record sightings without using hotspots. You can create your own locations or simply submit your sightings from a track. But if you don't use a hotspot and bird in the hotspot, then your sightings won't be in the bar chart for the hotspot, so...
  4. J

    eBird and Birding on the move

    Yes, precisely. And the same is true of the current eBird approach, which can also account for the generality of hotspots, etc. and is much better than the approach of just recording birds by political subdivisions, e.g. county or state. It's all a matter of where you want to strike the...
  5. J

    eBird and Birding on the move

    Your response misses my points; I'm familiar with the other threads and participated in some of them. My main point is that the eBird model is not "wrong" or stupid, and you should stop saying so or implying that because it will discourage people from using it and providing the data which has...
  6. J

    eBird and Birding on the move

    Ebird is a compromise between usability and accuracy to encourage birders to use it frequently. But it is wrong to say that makes the data model "wrong." Mapping precise locations of birds would be very time consuming and burdensome. In addition to having to stop every time you see or hear a...
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