Obscure places

Kondla, Norbert FOR:EX Norbert.Kondla at gems3.gov.bc.ca
Mon Nov 6 15:47:02 EST 2000


Its a big world with a lot of geography.  From time to time lepsters are
interested in knowing where a particular taxon was described from or where a
place mentioned in a journal article really is without going through
contortions to ferret out such info.  For Canada this task has been made
easy by a web site feature hosted by Geomatics Canada:
http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/english/query.html
Easy to query site which gives the normal bumph about latlongs but the nifty
feature is that you can select from two overview maps-national scale or
regional scale to provide a nice picture of "X marks the spot" of where a
place is.  I tried this with Distincta Peak, Yukon (home ground of Boloria
distincta) and White River, Yukon (Oeneis cairnesi) and there is no question
that a picture is worth a thousand words -- and a million numbers for those
of us who are numerically challenged :-)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Norbert Kondla  P.Biol., RPBio.
Forest Ecosystem Specialist, Ministry of Environment
845 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar, British Columbia V1N 1H3
Phone 250-365-8610
Mailto:Norbert.Kondla at gems3.gov.bc.ca       
http://www.env.gov.bc.ca


 
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