How do I format a file for batch georeferencing?
Save your data in a tab-delimited text file.The first row of the must contain column names. BioGeomancer can understands concept names from the DarwinCore 1.4 and its Geospatial Extension.
Specifically, BioGeomancer currently interprets the following fields (the order and case are not relevant):
Locality
HigherGeography
Continent
WaterBody
IslandGroup
Island
Country
StateProvince
County
VerbatimLatitude
VerbatimLongitude
VerbatimCoordinates
VerbatimElevation
Any other fields submitted in the upload are retained, but uninterpreted. Of those in the list above, the Verbatim fields are currently unused in the spatial description, and the WaterBody, IslandGroup, and Island are likely to be heavily under-represented in the gazetteer.
Pay attention to the encoding system used. You should use UTF-8, a character encoding system for the Unicode standard to represent any of the world's scripts. Text encoded in the standard windows/English "Latin-1" will not be corrupted if it contains pure ASCIIcharacters.
On Windows computers you can use Notepad to save a text file with UTF-8 encoding:
When you export a table with MS-Access, go to the "advanced" option and select UTF-8:
Excel ???? With MS-Excel you can save the file as "tab-delimted text" or as "unicode" (which will also save as tab-delimited". After that you can open the text file in Notepad and save it as UTF-8 (???? need to test this)