Georeferencing locality descriptions
Georeferencing is the process of transforming textual descriptions of geographical data into a pair of X, Y coordinates, with an accompanying estimation of precision (Nelson et al. 2012). The following links provide information on how locality descriptions can be georeferenced.
Georeferencing Resources
- Biogeomancer, Guide to Best Practices in Georeferencing
- Geolocate: Online and Desktop Georeferencing Tools
- Gil Nelson: Georeferencing with Geolocate
- MaNIS/HerpNet/ORNIS Georeferencing Guidelines
- Herpnet's georeferencing resources page
- iDigBio Georeferencing Wiki
- iDigBio's Georeferencing Working Group Forum
- GeoLocate Web Management Portal login
- GeoLocate Collaborative Georeferencing Web Client login
- Collaborative Georeferencing with Geolocate Protocol, Florida State University
- FSU Geolocate Protocol Using a Custom Spreadsheet for Georeferencing
- Georeferencing Herbarium Specimens using GeoLocate