Commons:Batch uploading/IUCN red list

IUCN red list

As I mentioned at talk page, we have established a partnership with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to produce range maps for many species of animals. See Commons:IUCN red list for a few more details. The GIS manager at IUCN has actually kindly produced now around 6000 maps (in .gif) for all the amphibian species they currently have data on. They have placed the zip file in a password protected ftp site (I can send someone the file, it is only 60 something megabytes). You can see the samples I have uploaded, at Commons talk:IUCN red list#New developments. I also have a .dbf file with information about the source of the spatial data, and I will get shortly a file with a relation between species names and the identification number for the species at the red list website (for example 56054 is the ID for Acanthixalus sonjae). This can be used to extract the Assessor information required to complete the description file. I know that Polbot's sixth task used information retrieved from the IUCN red list website, so it should be possible to use part of its code to retrieve this information. There should be a few other batches later on. GoEThe (talk) 12:41, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Update: The IUCN is going to send me a total of 30,000 images to be uploaded. They would like it to be done in time for their next website update, which will be on November 11th. Can anybody help me with this? GoEThe (talk) 16:06, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Opinions

•  Support I support this as there are plenty of articles are missing range maps. It is nice that the IUCN would like to support us by releasing range maps to us even if they are in .gif format. --Clarkcj12 (talk) 22:27, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Maybe we can also per bot make png out of them or is that not possible.--Sanandros (talk) 14:31, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

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I think I might be able to do this if I get enough information. Werieth (talk) 01:24, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

I would be interested in helping this move forward. -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 22:04, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

@GoEThe: Any news on this? Have the 30 000 files been uploaded? Eric Luth (WMSE) (talk) 09:49, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

@Eric Luth (WMSE): This trailed off in 2011 for some reason, which I can't really recall exactly why. My contact at IUCN since left the organization, if I recall correctly, and I never gotten around to contact them again. They weren't keen on releasing the underlying spatial data at the time with a Commons-compatible license, but perhaps they could be better persuaded now. GoEThe (talk) 11:27, 18 March 2022 (UTC)