[NHCOLL-L:1465] Re: geocoding

[J Tomás Gierm akowski]

Hello,

There is also a nice ArcView tool with a description developed at the 
California Academy of Sciences at 
http://www.calacademy.org/research/informatics/georef/Main_Pages/2_Background.ht
ml

¡Good luck!

-- 
J. Tom Giermakowski
Division of Amphibians and Reptiles           Ecología de Vertebrados y Monitreo
Museum of Southwestern Biology                Estación Científica Charles Darwin
Dept of Biology, University of New Mexico     Puerto Ayora, Galápagos
ALBUQUERQUE, NM 87131-1091, USA               ECUADOR


Quoting Gordon Jarrell <fnghj at aurora.uaf.edu>:

> 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,
> >
> > 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).
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > Does anyone have any experience or opinion about?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
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> > Dr. Francesc Uribe
> > Museu de Zoologia de Barcelona
> > P. Picasso s/n
> > 08003 Barcelona, Spain
> > e-mail:   mzbcol at intercom.es
> > telf.:      (+34) 93319.69.12
> > fax:       (+34) 93310.49.99
> >
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