Today Trivia Question - Train the Trainers 2, Day 5
What do the following points have in common:
27.215728, -81.858465
46.679697, -168.000148?
Georeferencing Working Group (GWG)
Our goals are to start building a community of expert Georeferencing trainers and advance the capabilities of Georeferencing tools.
Today's Trivia Question - August 15, 2013 - Day 4 of TTT2 Workshop
Where on the world is the uncertainty required to cover the whole world the greatest?
Bonus: Roughly how big is the uncertainty there to cover the whole earth?
Today's Trivia Question - August 14, 2013 - Day 3 of TTT2 Workshop
Which projection does the USGS use most often for its online maps?
Today's Trivia Question - August 12, 2013 - Day 2 of TTT2 Workshop
What cartographer invented a map where parallels and meridians are straight lines spaced in order to produce at any point, an accurate ratio of latitude to longitude and where was he from?
Today's Trivia Question - August 12, 2013 - Day 1 of TTT2 Workshop
What line of longitude (nearest degree) crosses the greatest amount of terrestrial terrain?
and for a Bonus: name the iDigBio PI we met this morning.
Batch referencing TRS data
We have quite a few localities with TRS data. GEOLocate has been helpful for some, but does anyone know of another tool? We have quite a few that are very precise (NW1/4 NW1/4 NE1/4 SW1/4 sec12 T31N R14E), and I haven't found anything besides me, a USGS topo mad pdf, and the TerraGo toolbar that can adequately georeference these. Anything faster (but still maintaining the precision) would be fabulous!
Canadian concession maps
I've got a few fossils from Lot 24, Concession XI, Bidwell Twp, Manitoulin, Ontario. I am having no luck finding concession maps online to figure out where exactly this is from. Anybody have any tips?
historical localities
Hi all,
We are beginning to georeference localities for the tri-trophic tcn and I am wondering what the present community standard is regarding notating the use of contemporary gazetteers for finding centroids of historical places. We all know the area considered a place has changed over time, and we are not generally using information from the year the insect was collected to acquire a centroid and error.
Today's Trivia Question - October 12, 2012
What is the nearest city to the antipode of Gainesville, Florida?
Today's Trivia Question - October 11 2012
Which brewery outfitted three bottles of beer wtih GPS units?
1. Heineken
2. Pabst
3. Coors
4. Corona
Today's Trivia Question - October 10, 2012
What is the most southern country capital in the world?
Today's Trivia Question - October 9, 2012
The relationship of map units to real world units is known as:
1. Projection
2. Coordinates
3. Distortion
4. Scale
georeferencing to build atlases vs display points
I am wondering how people deal with georeferencing for the purpose of
making atlases (i.e., to town or county centroid) vs determining coordinates
for more specific locations. If the data are there, both could be useful.
Do people let the users build their own atlas from whatever level of
specificity was georeferenced, or do some have more than one set of fields
for georeferencing to different levels?
Today's Trivia Question - October 8, 2012
According to Dava Sobel's Longitude The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time, many different methods were attempted to calculate longitude before John Harrison's chronometers, made from 1730 - 1761. Which of the following was never part of a proposed solution at that time?
a. position of Jupiter's moons
b. gyroscopes
c. a wounded dog
d. sun's elevation above horizon
e. movement of moon
f. many cannons
Geolocate Uncertainties
Hi all,
We use Geolocate through Specify a lot and we were wondering if you could tell us more about how the uncertainties are determined.
Firstly, we've become wary of some very precise-looking uncertainties that crop up frequently - e.g., 3036m.
Newbie georeferencing
Hi All,
georeferencing workshop trainer/participant ratio
What is the right ratio of trainers to participants? If I put on a georeferencing
workshop and I end up being the only trainer, how many participants
should I limit the workshop to?
I am trying to gauge interest in the northeast before I commit to taking the
"train the trainers" workshop, and want to know if we need additional
trainers for a successful georeferencing workshop.
Thanks, Dorothy A.
ideal length for georeferencing workshop
What do people thinnk is the ideal length of time for a georeferencing
workshop? I have attended a one-day workshop; I know that there have
been two-day workshops too. It seems like a trade-off between the time
people can devote to it and the amount of content to cover.
Second question: could the workshop be effectively staged--beginning
then advanced so that some participants could do a shorter workshop?
Thanks, Dorothy A.
