[Nhcoll-l] Lack of latitude and longitude

[Vijay Barve]

Hello Vanessa,

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 (https://geopick.gbif.org/).

Regards,

Vijay

On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 4:34 AM Vanessa Pitusi <vanessa.pitusi at uit.no>
wrote:

> 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
> 
>
> 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 as they get specimens from reindeer herders and, thus, only have
> the administrative area/municipality as a reference.
>
>
>
> 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”?
>
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Vanessa
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