Anthocharis cardamines

Female above, male below.

I do not understand why is this not tagged as Israel.

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Ferdy Christant

Lion

"I do not understand why is this not tagged as Israel."

I can explain. Here's what happens when you give the coordinates of your spotting and save it: JungleDragon will take those latitude and longitude coordinates and send them to the Google reverse geocoding service. This service takes the coordinates and returns a human-readable address. From this address, JungleDragon reads the country code, and this way knows to which country it belongs. When this process is successful, you can see the country link above the mini map.

I too was wondering why country detection was failing as it seems to happen on quite a few of your spottings as well as those from Ori. The reason given by Google is that some of these specific coordinates are in disputed territories. And when an area is disputed, Google decides to not give back a country code, as that would mean taking a political position, which they try to avoid. They base this process on the official United Nations list of disputed territories.

So in short, JungleDragon is not in control of this decision making on Google's end, sorry. What you can do, however, is this: remove the geotag entirely. After doing this, you can use the "Edit country" button to map it to Israel. This means you have mapped it to a country, yet you will lose the detailed position on the map. So the question becomes, which of the two do you consider most important: the country, or the exact position in the country (yet then the country is not detected).

I'm fine either way, so I'll leave that decision to you.

There's two other cases in which country detection can fail. Not relevant to your posts, but sharing it for the sake of completeness:
- Marine observations (for example Indonesia with its many islands where country borders may be crossed when you go for a dive. Effectively you're in international waters, no longer within the country itself.
- Exceptional blank spots (very rare but sometimes also on land there's no country detected, big example is Nepal).

Hope this helps! Posted 6 years ago
1. Yael Orgad
  
  Lion
  
  first, thank you very much for taking the time to explain all this.
  I figured it was something like that.
  I will change it to country definition - but how do I remove the geotag? Posted 6 years ago, modified 6 years ago
2. 1. Ferdy Christant
    
    Lion
    
    You're welcome. Just use the red cross below the map. Posted 6 years ago