The BioGeomancer Library is home to resources and references about georeferencing natural history information.

NEW! --- Guide to Best Practices for Georeferencing

This GBIF publication is one of the outputs from the BioGeomancer project and discusses Best Practices for Georeferencing biological species (specimen and observational) data. The publication presents examples of how to georeference a wide range of different location types, and provides information and examples on how to determine the extent and maximum uncertainty distance for locations based on the information provided.

Understanding Georeferencing - learn basic concepts and get started georeferencing!

GeoSpatial Glossary - Decode terms, symbols, and abbreviations.

References - Websites and literature relevant to natural history georeferencing.

• Getting Started
• Georeferencing Methods, Protocols, and Best Practices (or lack thereof)
• Georeferencing Applications
• Implementation Resources
• GML
• Step 1: Generating Coordinates
• Gazetteers
• Step 2: Calculating Error
• Uncertainty Calculations
• Step 3: Validation
• Data Validation, Outlier Detection and Data Cleaning
• Environmental Modelling
• Geospatial Data
• Using Georeferenced Data
• Mapping
• Uses of Georeferenced Primary Species data