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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi Vijay,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Oh, great! Thank you for sharing that!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Vanessa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Vijay Barve <vbarve@nhm.org>
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, September 29, 2024 10:11 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Vanessa Pitusi <vanessa.pitusi@uit.no><br>
<b>Cc:</b> nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Nhcoll-l] Lack of latitude and longitude<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:vbarve@nhm.org">vbarve@nhm.org</a>. <a href="https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification">
Learn why this is important</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello Vanessa, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Geolocating of the Administrative area / municipality may be done using centroid radius method. Basically you use the centroid of the administrative area and min radius that will encompass the whole area. GBIF has a nice tool called GeoPick
(<a href="https://geopick.gbif.org/">https://geopick.gbif.org/</a>). <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Vijay<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 4:34<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span>AM Vanessa Pitusi <<a href="mailto:vanessa.pitusi@uit.no">vanessa.pitusi@uit.no</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:.75pt"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;color:white">Hi, I am in contact with a veterinarian researcher who might deposit parasites at our museum. Obviously, we prefer to register all specimens with a latitude and
longitude of where they were collected. However, she said that will be difficult<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="NO-BOK">Hi,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="NO-BOK"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I am in contact with a veterinarian researcher who might deposit parasites at our museum.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Obviously, we prefer to register all specimens with a latitude and longitude of where they were collected. However, she said that will be difficult as they get specimens from reindeer
herders and, thus, only have the administrative area/municipality as a reference.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Has anyone had a similar issue and found a good way to deal with this? Or is it a case of “It is what it is”?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Vanessa<o:p></o:p></p>
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