Resources & Links
Georeferencing
GeoLocate | https://www.geo-locate.org/default.html | Education and Training |
CoGe (GEOLocate Web-based collaborative client) | https://www.geo-locate.org/web/webcomgeoref.aspx | The interface for editing and reviewing community records |
California Phenology Network Georeferencing Course | https://www.capturingcaliforniasflowers.org/georeferencingcourse-coge.html | Excellent, concise training videos using GeoLocate. See also their Resources page for other material |
Georeferencing Quick Reference Guide | https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/images/1/1e/GeoreferencingQuickReferenceGuide.pdf | Fantastic, concise guidelines for all aspects of georeferencing; reference protocol for GLOBAL project |
Georeferencing Best Practices | http://mb.gbif.org/documents/doc-georeferencing-best-practices/en/ | THE very complete manual for all things georeference, also available as PDF (GBIF, Chapman and Wieczorek, 2020) |
Illustrated Georeferencing Guidelines | https://www.capturingcaliforniasflowers.org/uploads/1/6/3/7/16372936/georeferencingpictureguide_v2_booklet.pdf | Extremely helpful visual booklet to locating points and creating error radii |
Georeferencing in CCH2 Webinar | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrXiZ2tsuRM | Webinar presentation to demonstrate georeferencing localities using GeoLocate interface. |
Georeferencing Mapping Resource Hub | http://georeferencing.org/index.html | Aggregated site for tools, gazetteers, data sources, training (VertNet) |
iDigBio Georef. Working Group Video Tutorials | https://vimeo.com/showcase/2163673 | Online tutorials |
MaNIS/HerpNet/ORNIS Georef. Guidelines | http://georeferencing.org/georefcalculator/docs/GeorefGuide.html | Information about assigning geographic coordinates, and maximum error distances to locality descriptions |
Extracting Duplicate Georeferences from Herbarium Specimen Data | https://zenodo.org/record/4300889#.YDAqh-hKhPY | Uses Duplicate Clustering Tool in Symbiota to create output file of known duplicates with coordinates |
Georeferencing Calculator | http://georeferencing.org/georefcalculator/gc.html | Online application to help calculate coordinates and uncertainty |
LSU Herbarium Georeferencing Guide | https://tinyurl.com/mw74sxx8 | LSU’s guide to georeferencing fields along with links and notes |
Georeferencing Tools Available for GLOBAL | https://bit.ly/3ueBEVG | Summary of georeferencing tools for the GLOBAL project |
CoGe
Collaborative Georeferencing with CoGe | https://epicc.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/UsingGeoLocateforCollaborativeGeoreferencing_2016.pdf | Developed by Nelson Rios at the Tulane Univ Biodiv Inst. Product produced for the EPICC TCN |
Georeferencing in CoGe | https://bit.ly/31GAndX | Document outlining steps to work in the CoGe web portal |
Mapping
GeoNames Geographical Database | http://www.geonames.org/ | Place names; advanced search has option for fuzzy names |
World Places Map Directory | https://vymaps.com/ | |
ACME Mapper | http://acme.com/mapper3/ | High-precision general purpose mapping application; 3.0 has hiking trails layer |
Mindat.org | https://www.mindat.org/ | The world’s largest open database of minerals, rocks, meteorites and the localities they come from; great for mountains and mine sites |
Geographic.org | https://geographic.org/ | Maps, names, geology, climate, statistics info |
Nations Online Project | https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/maps.htm | Maps, names, languages |
Gazeteer of the Antarctic, Nat Sci Fdn | https://pubs.usgs.gov/msb/7000091/report.pdf | Antarctic place names and coords (Datum unknown) |
Peak Visor | https://peakvisor.com/index_2_en.html | 3D maps and peak identfication |
Fuzzy Gazetteer | http://isodp.hof-university.de/fuzzyg/query/ | |
Get a Map | http://www.getamap.net/ |
Mapping – Historical
British Library Historic Maps | https://www.bl.uk/subjects/maps | Maps, documents, etc. |
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection | https://www.davidrumsey.com/home | The collection focuses on rare 16th through 21st century maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. |
Old Maps Online | https://www.oldmapsonline.org/ | Search engine for historical maps |
Topographic Maps of Eastern Europe | http://easteurotopo.org/ | a collection of small and large scale historical maps of the lands of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Pale of Jewish Settlement in late Tsarist Russia. |
Geographic Names
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page | well, of course |
Statoids | http://statoids.com/ | Major administrative divisions of countries; endonyms and exonyms included. The “details ” page lists more general reference sites |
Countries and Names of the World | https://www.geonames.de/ | The countries of the world in their own languages and writing systems; with official names, capitals, flags, coats of arms, political divisions, national anthems, and translations of the countries and capitals into many languages |
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) | https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/tgn/ | The TGN includes names and associated information about places. Places in TGN include administrative political entities and physical features. Current and historical places are included. |
Falling Rain | http://www.fallingrain.com/world/ | Directory of cities and towns in world |
CIA World Fact Book | https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/ | The World Factbook provides information on geography, etc. |
Historical Countries – Nations Online Project | https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/historical_countrynames.htm | List of formerly used country names and names of countries which have ceased to exist. Name changes of countries, dependencies, geographical and other regions of particular geopolitical interest. |
List of German exonyms for places in the Czech Republic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_exonyms_for_places_in_the_Czech_Republic |
Country/Location Specific Guides
Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia | http://bonzle.com.au/c/a | Searchable list of Australian regions, cities, localities, etc. |
Brazil – Explanation of Roads Markers | https://bit.ly/3fxF81n | Explanation numbering format for Brazilian road markers |
German place + names former Czechoslovakia | https://bit.ly/3fwf1bl | List of historic and current names |
Japan Databasing Guide | https://bit.ly/3rIODNE | Guide to Japanese place names |
Japanese Province to Prefectures | https://bit.ly/3xtErxL | Table of historical Japanese provinces with modern prefecture names |
Irish Hill and Mountain Names | https://bit.ly/3NXC0Ko | Table of names of hills and mountains in Ireland |
Scottish Cave and Mine Database Search | https://registry.gsg.org.uk/sr/registrysearch.php | Searchable by site name |
Ordnance Survey Maps from the UK | https://getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/ | Detailed maps & routes to explore across the UK | OS Maps |
Mountain Views, Hill-walking website for island of Ireland | https://mountainviews.ie/summit/25/ | Searchable website of Irish hills, mountains, islands, and coastal features. |
Coordinate Conversion
Earthpoint | https://www.earthpoint.us/Convert.aspx | Coordinate conversion, topographic maps–subscription not necessary for many tools |
Public Lands Survey System | https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/public-land-survey-system-plss | US maps and more |
Movable Type | https://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong-utm-mgrs.html | Convert between lat/long & UTM coords/MGRS grid references (Esp. useful for Finnish coordinates) |
East European Lat/Long Coordinate Help | https://guides.loc.gov/maps-genealogy-eastern-europe/coordinates/latitude-longitude | Cartographic Resources for Genealogical Research: Eastern Europe and Russia, touches on coordinate systems based on other prime meridians |
Translation
Google Translate | https://translate.google.com/ |
Miscellaneous
Botanist Index-Harvard Univ. | https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/botanist_index.html | Helpful for info on collectors and their areas of specialty–be sure to check box for ‘Find similar sounding names’ |
Why georeferencing matters: Introducing a practical protocol to prepare species occurrence records for spatial analysis | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5756859/ | Journal article exploring georeferencing protocols |
If you have any questions or other resources to add, please email Julie Smith at: jesmith7@wisc.edu.