[Herpnet] AZ is available for Georeferencing

[Carol Spencer]

Due to some financial difficulties at Arizona State University, ASU is 
no longer able to claim AZ for georeferencing.
(They did not receive funds from HerpNET to do this, but were trying to 
obtain funding through external sources).


Therefore for those institutions starting georeferencing this coming 
year (Fall 2006) or received money last year (2005) and have only 
claimed a few localities, Arizona is now available.
You can claim either the entire state, or claim by county.

And to remind those participating in HerpNET, do not make a claim on a 
region unless you have already downloaded the data and
will be starting to georeference it in the near future. By making a 
claim you are stating the you will complete georeferencing for that region.

See the Georeferencing Steps page for further reference
http://herpnet.org/Gazetteer/GeorefSteps.html

and the Georeferencing Checklist for what is currently available.
http://herpnet.org/Gazetteer/GeorefChecklist.html


Our priority is finishing North America, so the following regions in 
North America are still unclaimed:

Arizona:  41,070 localities
Remaining portions of Louisiana: 13, 826 localities
Mississippi: 4,053



Thanks
Carol

-- 
Carol L. Spencer, Ph.D.
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
3101 Valley Life Sciences Building
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
510-643-1620
fax 510-643-8238
atrox at berkeley.edu
http://herpnet.org