Quick Reminders

[Kristina Yamamoto]

Hi HerpNET Participants,

  I'm Carol Spencer's employee at the MVZ, and I've been checking over  all of the incoming georeferenced files from HerpNET. I wanted to thank  everyone who has sent in files - they've all been done very well. If  anyone has any completed files ready, then please send them to Carol so  they can validated and then made available to the other institutions.  There's no need to wait until all of your claimed countries/states are  completed - it's actually best to send files in individually rather  than all at once, so that any problems can be rectified from the  beginning, while the individual georeferencers are still around and  there is still funding available.

  I've seen a few recurring issues across insitutions - so I just wanted to clear those things up.

  - Make sure that no MVZ records, or records with coordinates already  given, or localities with "Do not georeference" in the LatLongRemarks  field are being georeferenced.

  - The LatLongRemarks field is used to make comments about how you  obtained the coordinates, extent, and error. Examples would be:  "Traveled ca 8 km NW until reached Rio Ron Ron" or "Perine not found,  error encompasses 5 km around Jeremie."

  The LocalityAnnotation field is used to make comments directly to the  institution, for corrections that may be needed to the locality.  Examples would be "Dame Marie is not in Sud province but in Grand Anse"  and "Roche Plate spelling." The two fields are usually not  interchangeable. Comments such as "I cannot find Terre Longe" belong in  the LatLongRemarks or DoNotGeorefBecause field.

  - Be aware that gazetteers often use the mouth of the river for the coordinates recorded, not the geographic center.

  Please let all your georeferencers know that they are more than welcome  to e-mail me if they have any questions or just want to check up on  something. Thanks very much!

  ~Kristina Yamamoto




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