README Clarity on Necessary Inputs

[GondekNP]

First off, excellent work here - this is a really exciting project and I'm excited to see how it performs for my use case!

I am wondering about which of the model's inputs are required to be populated by the user, which are downloaded programmatically, and which are output directories.

For example:

• path occs references occurrence data, which is downlaoaded using Download_GBIF_Data.py
• path shps references geometries used to perform spatial cross validation and properly match occurrence data with NAIP imagery, but I am expected to have populated it myself (?)
• path runs references experimental runs of training the model, fitting SDMs, etc (I have not gotten here yet so just guessing)

I encountered this within the Build_Data.py step, where it kicked due to me not having "gadm36_USA/gadm36_USA_1.shp".

Based on your README it sounds like you are planning to automatically download some of these necessary inputs programmatically, but if you could point me to where some of these inputs live, I could add those download scripts to my fork of your repo and submit back a PR!

Thanks again - this is cool and I'm keen to tinker.

[gjamesgoenawan]

It seems like the shps problem can be solved by downloading the USA gdam 3.6 from here.

However, you'll encounter another error relating to missing BioClim .tiff file. This turns out to be a lot more trickier since the original host of the file wc2.1_30s_bio.zip has been having problems for some time now [source].

I doubt the author can provide us with an alternative download link due to copyright issues.

Edit : I just manage to download the file. It seems like the host isn't down, just quite unstable. You can try it yourself here