[Nhcoll-l] Lack of latitude and longitude

[Vanessa Pitusi]

Hi Vijay,

Oh, great! Thank you for sharing that!

Kind regards,
Vanessa

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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<mailto: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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