Georeferencing

ORNIS followed the MaNIS/HerpNET/ORNIS Georeferencing Guidelines and was conducted at the work centers chosen from among participating institutions and are listed below. See the Georeferencing Results page for details on this aspect of the ORNIS project.

ORNIS Georeferencing Centers

• Michigan State University Museum, East Lansing, Michigan
• Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
• Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario
• Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Norman, Oklahoma
• Slater Museum, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington
• University of Washington Burke Museum, Seattle, Washington

BioGeomancer

• BioGeomancer
  • Report problem with BioGeomancer
  • Georeferencing work flow (up to 26 Oct 2007)
  • Georeferencing work flow (starting 26 Oct 2007)
  • Track progress of georeferencing in ORNIS

Georeferencing links

• Archives-MaNIS discussions
• Archives-HerpNET discussions
• Biogeomancer Workbench for Georeferencing
• Geographic/UTM Coordinate Converter
• Georeferencing Error Calculator
  • Georeferencing guidelines for MaNIS, HerpNET, and ORNIS
  • "Georeferencing for Dummies" - A Rough Guide to Georeferencing
• GPS Visualizer
• Online Georeferencing and GIS Mapping Resources
  • JR Screen Ruler (free)
  • Township-Range-Section converter to latitude/longitude

Georeferencing workshops (Stops on the International Georeferencing Road Show)

• I HerpNET/GBIF Georeferencing Workshop, Tervuren, Belgium December 2006
• II GBIF Georeferencing Workshop, Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 2007 (in Spanish)
• ORNIS Georeferencing Workshop, Berkeley, California, August 2007
• UAM Georeferencing Workshop, Fairbanks, Alaska, February 2008
• APN Georeferencing Workshop, Bariloche, Argentina, March 2008 (in Spanish)
• III GBIF Georeferencing Workshop, Madrid, Spain, May 2008
• DanBIF Georeferencing Workshop, Copenhagen, Denmark, Jan 2009

References

• Chapman, A.D. and J. Wieczorek (eds). 2006. Guide to Best Practices for Georeferencing. Copenhagen: Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
• Guralnick, R. P., J. Wieczorek, R. Beaman, R. J. Hijmans, the BioGeomancer Working Group. 2006. BioGeomancer: Automated georeferencing to map the world's biodiversity. PLOS Biology 4:1908.