Hi Lauren Eserman, On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Lauren Eserman <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear ECOLOG-L members, > > I am in the process of generating distribution maps for several species > using herbarium specimen records. However, many of the records only > indicate locality, with no GPS coordinates. I have tried using GeoLocate, > but this program only georeferences localities in the US, Mexico, and > Canada (My records include a worldwide sample). I would like to try > Biogeomancer but the website seems to be down. I have many records, making > manual georeferencing in a program like Google Earth unreasonable. > > Does anyone here have any suggestions? I will compile responses in a > follow-up email.
BioGeomancer seems to be working fine (http://bg.berkeley.edu/latest/). I am not sure where all of your specimens are located but I just tested '5 km south of mysore' and got back reasonable responses. Also did you try the GEOLocate webservices located here? http://www.museum.tulane.edu/geolocate/web/default.html They do in fact work for other countries though I *think* you may have to indicate your country for these services to work. I guessing that this will not be a problem since most specimens list the country collected. I hope this helps, Michael > > Thanks in advance, > Lauren Eserman > > -------------------------------------------------- > Lauren Eserman > Graduate Student > Southeastern Louisiana University > Dept. of Biological Sciences > Phone: 985-549-3008 (office) -- Michael Denslow I.W. Carpenter Jr. Herbarium [BOON] Department of Biology Appalachian State University Boone, North Carolina U.S.A. -- AND -- Communications Manager Southeast Regional Network of Expertise and Collections sernec.org 36.214177, -81.681480 +/- 3103 meters
