Edit

Replying to a.kohlbecker:

I think we should allow differentiating between point representing observations, specimens and fossils.

We should also think about creating a separate specimen map for the fossil records, maybe this is easier to implement and a different color/pattern could be avoided?

How about different layers in the same map? This is much easier to achieve at the moment.

I forgot something to add: color/pattern is also easy to achieve, since it is already supported by the map service

Ok, then lets try different layers for the fossil/non-fossil problem please!

If different colors are easy to achieve I propose different colors for the specimen record aggregation problem. There is no specific ticket available yet, but see also ticket #3277.

Example suggestion: Specimen records for a species should aggregate all subspecies/varieties records (all levels below). Those subspecies records should be displayed with different colors. In case of genus level the different colors should be used for different species (but not grandchildren like subspecies).

This different colors feature would be perfect both for fossil and non-fossil specimen records and should be optional in general.

If you want to create a new ticket for this color feature please cc Norbert, Henning and Eckhard as well.