Whitebark pine data error

* Whitebark Pine Whitebark Pine exists as a part of the "Pine" species. The metadata for "Pine" says that that species includes: PA (Whitebark Pine), PF (Limber Line), PJ (Jack Pine), PM (Monterey Pine), PW (Western White Pine). Unfortunately this probably doesn't help you if the only thing you are interested in is Whitebark Pine. Currently, you won't be able to get to this level of detail. The species groupings that are shown in the layer tree were determined in consultation with our ministry of forests contact at the time we were processing the data. We may need to revisit this if there is a consistent demand for the individual species.

* The discrepancy you see between the map and the "info" tool. This is a bit more complex and is likely a result of the zoom level you were viewing the data at and the way the VRI data was processed. I will attempt to explain.

The VRI "Species" layer consisted of a set of polygons where each polygon had up to six species each with a given percent (ie. Polygon A is 40% Pine, 60% Cedar etc.). We couldn't represent data like this well in Hectares BC so the way we approximated this data was to assign "Pine" to 40% of the hectares within Polygon A and Cedar to the other 60%. If the zoom in and ask for pine you'll see a checkboard effect where approx 4 out of every 10 pixels are red (the assignment was done randomly so it won't be exactly 40%; however it is close). If you aren't zoomed in all the way you likely won't see a good representation of the checkboard effect because of the resampling that occurs.

When you use the info tool it may look like you have selected one of the hectares that matches your query, however if you zoom in you may see that it actually doesn't. This is likely the cause of the issue you describe above; however without a few more details about the zoom level & hectare that was clicked I can't be sure.