Double resolution of regions from 1° to 0.5° #65
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area:data
Data and processing: audio recordings, photos
kind:feature
New feature or request ready to be implemented
This would help to reduce the number of gulls for people whose garden happens to be near the coast, for example.
How much extra data would this cost? Currently according to
sqlite3_analyzer
theregions
table is about 2.2 MB, so I'd expect this to grow at most 4×, which would be up to 8.8 MB (probably less because not every quadrant would include all species of the original cell). This is still fine because the Play Store reports an app size of 138 to 139 MB at the moment (limit is 150 MB).If needed, we can apply some clever compression. I just naively tried
gzip
on one of the longest entries, 1124 bytes, but that results in 1117 bytes. Maybe shorten species IDs using Huffman encoding; after all, we are spending 16 bits to represent only 800 species (~9.6 bits).The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: