Quick Reminders

[Lieb, Carl]

Ms. Yamamoto --
Were the two data files I sent a month or so ago ever received (El Paso,
Hudspeth)  I got a strange error report that at the time I didn't get to
follow up on.

Carl Lieb
UTEP

-----Original Message-----
From: HerpNet Project [mailto:HERPNET at LISTSERV.NHM.KU.EDU] On Behalf Of
Kristina Yamamoto
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 2:56 PM
To: HERPNET at LISTSERV.NHM.KU.EDU
Subject: [HERPNET] Quick Reminders

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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