Biosecurity alert - suspected failing

[turley85]

A new alert has been added that has 42 LGA's as a spatial area. When "previewing" that alert, it very quickly (too quickly) shows 0 records.

I've double check the list and can't see any errors, so suspect something else is going on.

List is WA_LGA_Northam_IAS: https://lists.ala.org.au/speciesListItem/list/dr30101

[turley85]

For example, Oryctolagus cuniculus is on the list, but not being detected.

Occurrence in relevant area is here: https://biocache.ala.org.au/occurrences/060c165b-75d7-4d7d-99a4-de928aab67d5

[kylie-m]

Hi Andrew, I suspect the 42 LGAs per line is too long / too many for the biocache query and that might be what's breaking it.

As a workaround, I'll try combining them into a single spatial object, see how that works and let you know how it goes

[kylie-m]

Hi again Andrew, I had some trouble downloading all of the LGAs and combining into a single shapefile, but after chatting with the rest of the team, I have a couple of suggestions for how we can approach this -

1. Starting with the easiest, could we ask the user if they have a shapefile they could supply us?
2. If the LGAs we are looking at are part of a defined, named region we might be able to use that instead to form a shorter query
3. If using the LGA approach is our only option, it should still be possible to split the fq statement over a couple of lines. So for example, include the same species on the list twice and split the list of LGAs into a first and second half.

I'm on leave for a few days but if you have questions please reach out to the team and they can help :)

[turley85]

Hi @kylie-m

Those LGA's are all from the "Wheatbelt" area: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheatbelt_(Western_Australia)

Does that help?