[Talk-GB] Southwark update

Steve Doerr steve.doerr at blueyonder.co.uk
Thu Mar 3 15:19:20 GMT 2011


On 03/03/2011 14:27, Tom Chance wrote

> In order to be useful for non-experts, I've also tried to crowdsource 
> the common names for all of the species in the data set and add those 
> in, along with any fruit/nuts they produce for people like me who are 
> interested in foraging. The work-in-progress is here: 
> http://bit.ly/hvv0Ok (help appreciated!)

AFAIK, botanical species only have two elements, so many of these 
'species' are actually varieties.

Row 78 says 'Cedrus SPP': this means /Cedrus/ spp., i.e. /Cedrus/ 
species (plural), i.e. multiple species of the /Cedrus/ genus (cedar).

In rows 88-98, the contents of column A seem to be truncated: do you 
want people to edit column A to supply the missing characters, or would 
that bugger up what you're trying to do with this dataset?

Did they create row 383 or did you? Looks like an Easter egg!

-- 
Steve




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