DanBIF - Georeferencing

Dynamic UTM map Denmark

2010-01-28T21:55:19Z

This service is only available in Danish.

Please shift to the Danish version of the website (top menu).

DanBIF coordinate finder

2010-01-28T21:53:11Z

This service is only available in Danish.

Please shift to the Danish version of the website (top menu).

Georeferencing & BioGeomancer

2010-01-29T21:27:07Z

Georeferencing is the process of converting text descriptions of locations to computer-readable geographic locations, such as a GIS system uses. Although this can be done by hand with maps and some guesswork, the BioGeomancer project (see below) provides the tools to improve the results for organizations with lots of data to georeference by automating the georeferencing of bulk data, learning from existing georeferences, accessing map and placename gazetteers, generating the computer-readable geographic locations and error descriptions according to accepted standards, and providing tools for validating these.

With standards-based georeferenced locations, your data can be contributed to mapping and geographic search applications, such as through the DiGIR portals. These applications allow users to use map-based interfaces to review, query, and otherwise interact with your data, either alone or in combination with data from other sources.

Georeferenced biocollection data is in high demand. Mapping species occurrence data is fundamental to describing and analysing biotic distributions. This information is also critical for conservation planning, reserving selection, monitoring, and the examination of the potential effects of climate change on biodiversity.

A gazetteer is a geographical dictionary or directory, an important reference for information about places and place names, used in conjunction with a map or a full atlas.

The BioGeomancer (BG) Project is a worldwide collaboration of natural history and geospatial data experts. The primary goal of the project is to maximize the quality and quantity of biodiversity data that can be mapped in support of scientific research, planning, conservation, and management. The project promotes discussion, manages geospatial data and data standards, and develops software tools in support of this mission.

The BioGeomancer consortium is developing online workbench, web services, and desktop applications that will provide georeferencing for collectors, curators and users of natural history specimens, including software tools to allow natural language processing of archival data records that were collected in many different formats. The tools developed here are explicitly targeted for interoperability with the GBIF portal.

Georeferencing Guidelines - MaNIS/HerpNet/ORNIS

2010-01-30T00:49:50Z

The website contains information about assigning geographic coordinates, and maximum error distances for those coordinates, to locality descriptions. The process of assigning coordinates and errors, called "georeferencing" or "geocoding", can be rather complicated. The complexity of the process can be greatly reduced and the consistency of the results can be greatly increased by establishing some guidelines that cover most commonly encountered locality descriptions.

Guide to Best Practices for Georeferencing

2010-01-30T14:27:34Z

This publication is one of the outputs from the BioGeomancer project and discusses Best Practices for Georeferencing biological species (specimen and observational) data. The publication presents examples of how to georeference a wide range of different location types, and provides information and examples on how to determine the extent and maximum uncertainty distance for locations based on the information provided.

Guide to Best Practices for Georeferencing
Edited by: Arthur D. Chapman and John Wieczorek
Contributors: J.Wieczorek, R.Guralnick, A.Chapman, C.Frazier, N.Rios, R.Beaman, Q.Guo.
Copyright © 2006 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

ISBN: 87-92020-00-3

Georeferencing for Dummies

2010-02-02T15:49:37Z

Georeferencing links - HerpNet

2010-01-29T18:31:39Z

Georeferencing Calculator

2010-01-29T07:56:35Z

Darwin Core

2010-01-30T22:57:26Z

The Darwin Core (sometimes abbreviated as DwC) is a standard designed to facilitate the exchange of information about the geographic occurrence of species and the existence of specimens in collections. Extensions to the Darwin Core provide a mechanism to share additional information, which may be discipline-specific, or beyond the commonly agreed upon scope of the Darwin Core itself.

Georeferencing links - ORNIS

2010-01-30T22:59:51Z

Dansk stednavne-gazetteer

2010-01-29T14:00:07Z

Latitude/Longitude Conversions

2011-02-17T12:18:16Z

Degrees, Minutes, Seconds and Decimal Degrees Latitude/Longitude Conversions

This utility permits the user to convert latitude and longitude between decimal degrees and degrees, minutes, and seconds.

For convenience, a link is included to the National Geodetic Survey's NADCON program, which allows conversions between the NAD83 / WGS84 coordinate system and the older NAD27 coordinate system. NAD27 coordinates are presently used for broadcast authorizations and applications.

Fuzzy Gazetteer

2012-03-02T13:40:04Z

La Tierra

2012-03-05T11:00:50Z

Database with approx. 5,5 million locations on Earth, including data such as latitude and longitude.

Oasis Photo Coordinate Converter - Latitude, Longitude <=> UTM

2012-03-22T10:03:32Z

Geographic Tools: Coordinate Conversion - UTM <=> Latitude, Longitude / Datum Transformation

2012-03-22T10:09:29Z

ACME Mapper

2012-03-22T10:28:11Z