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Andy Farrow has some issues with crop mapping too:

I found Monfreda and SPAM were ‘better’ in different places when I was reviewing the legumes but still there are large areas of confusion between, for example, common beans and cowpeas.

Oh, and he too would like to know how exactly the people behind the Global Yield Gap Atlas decided to use HarvestChoice’s Spatial Production Allocation Model to do their mapping.

Simon Linington has a parting shot on genebanks asking for money:

Even if not charging, it may be a useful exercise to remind users of the cost of sending the samples out. This might help focus minds on the service that has been provided regardless of the end value of that material.

There’s a lot more there. Read all the comments and add your own.

Ehsan reminds us of one of the complexities of genebanks charging for accessions:

Often genebanks holds collections arising from other countries from which the accession has been collected. Then, how ethical would it be for a country to request for materials collected from its country and have to pay for it. I think this is another point which should be taken in to consideration.

Lots of other comments, do have a look and add your own.

Cédric Jeanneret-Grosjean thinks he knows why a couple of online mapping tools made me cry recently:

About your patience running out, you can’t really blame the “geeks”. I think the culprits in these initiative (customised online-web map portals two-O and variants) are the bored, misdirected info-comm-know managers and officers wanting such a tool on their corporate website.

Why don’t you tell us what you really think, Cédric? It’s a long comment, but well worth reading in full. And many thanks to Cédric for taking the time to respond to the post.

Rosario Falcon heard our cry for help from Genebank Database Hell, and took pity on us:

This is the link for Puca Lliclla

This is for Pallay Poncho

Thank you, Rosario!