[NHCOLL-L:1463] Re: geocoding

[Gordon Jarrell]

There is a lot of documentation on this subject, including a useful tool,
associated with the Mammal Network Information System (MaNIS) at:
http://dlp.cs.berkeley.edu/manis/index.html

Gordon H. Jarrell, Ph.D.
Acting Curator of Mammals
University of Alaska Museum
Fairbanks, AK 99775-6960 USA

phone - (907) 474-6946
fax -  (907) 474-5469
www.uaf.edu/museum/mammal

On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, [iso-8859-1] Col·leccions wrote:

> Colleagues,
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> the treatment that the Barcelona Zoology Museum, Spain, applies to the geographical data related to the specimens of collections was mainly based on toponymic information. In order to exploit this information by means of a Geographical Information System we are currently assigning geographical coordinates to each locality. The difficulties arise when the original information is only referred to big areas like a mountain chain (Pyrenees), a whole country (Morocco) or even more a part of a continent (North Africa).
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> By default we can estimate the centroid and and a measure of the level of precision of the coordinates of this centroid for each one of these places. However we don't know what kind of problems we should face at the moment of working with the GIS. Is it a better idea to put the "overdimensioned" places aside the GIS?
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> Does anyone have any experience or opinion about?
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> Thanks in advance.
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