Locality Georeferencing and Generation - Revision history

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‎Locality Comments

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‎Georeferencing Tips

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‎General Georeferencing Tips

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 **Interstate (blue shield) Ex: I-62
 **County road (white square), different based on state Ex: Farm-to-Market Road 791 (Texas)
-*Information that relates directly to a specific place within a locality should be formatted as follows:
+*Information that relates directly to an aspect of a feature/place should be formatted as follows:
 **“Shores” and “seeps” as in Silver Creek shore/seep should be formatted within a locality  as “Shore/Seep of Silver Creek”
 **“Slopes” and “summits” of mountains should follow the same format (e.g. W slope of Clyde Mountain, NSW, Australia; summit of Fairview Canyon, Sanpete Co., UT)

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 **Interstate (blue shield) Ex: I-62
 **County road (white square), different based on state Ex: Farm-to-Market Road 791 (Texas)
-*“Shores” and “seeps” as in Silver Creek shore/seep should be formatted within a locality  as “Shore/Seep of Silver Creek”
+*Information that relates directly to a specific place within a locality should be formatted as follows:
 === Gazetteer Tips ===

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 ::“ft” for feet
 ::"jct." for the junction of two roads
 ::Political division types if an appropriate abbreviation is available (e.g. Province -> Prov., State -> St., Município -> Mpio., etc.)
 ::Directions from localities should be abbreviated (e.g. N of Papallacta, 4km S Sálakos)
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 *Place names with qualifiers that do not occur as the first element of a locality name may have their qualifier name abbreviated (e.g. Kruger National Park, South Africa; Skukuza, Kruger N.P., Mpumalanga Prov., South Africa)
 **Recreational Area/Mountains/etc. is abbreviated if not at the beginning of the locality, but is spelled out if at beginning
 **Roads/Avenues/Drives are part of the name of the feature, and therefore should be spelled out.
 *If a feature or place has an English equivalent, use the English equivalent as long as the qualifier is not part of the formal name (e.g. Parque Nacional Henri Pittier -> Henri Pittier National Park, Rio Pisque -> Pisque River, Cerro de la Equis -> Equis Hill, Wadi Saluki -> Wadi Saluki (no English equivalent for wadi)).

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 ::“m” for meters
 ::“ft” for feet
 ::"jct." for the junction of two roads
 ::"Isl." for island
 *Things that should not be abbreviated:
 ::Road
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 **Roads/Avenues/Drives are part of the name of the feature, and therefore should be spelled out.
 *If a feature or place has an English equivalent, use the English equivalent as long as the qualifier is not part of the formal name (e.g. Parque Nacional Henri Pittier -> Henri Pittier National Park, Rio Pisque -> Pisque River, Cerro de la Equis -> Equis Hill, Wadi Saluki -> Wadi Saluki (no English equivalent for wadi)).
 *A locality name should start with a specific containing entity, if the most specific containing entity is a county or state, use the most specific locality information.
 **e.g. the locality name for "CO:Moffat Co. Rt. 40, 9.8 miles W Maybell" would be "US-40, 9.8mi W Maybell, Moffat Co., CO". However, "CO:Moffat Co. 9.8 miles W Maybell" would yield a locality name of "9.8mi W Maybell, Moffat Co., CO" as 9.8mi W Maybell is specific locality information, but is not a containing entity. Roads can be considered as containing entities since the specimen is collected along the road.

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 ::Political division types if an appropriate abbreviation is available (e.g. Province -> Prov., State -> St., Município -> Mpio., etc.)
 ::"jct." for the junction of two roads
 *Things that should not be abbreviated:
 ::Road

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 ::*xxy is a variant name/alternate spelling/short name/misspelling of xxx
 ::*[gazetteer] coords. adjusted to place over land; (if gazetteer puts coordinates in middle of body of water)
-::*locality is contained in [county] Co. rather than adjacent [county on label] Co.; if county on label differs from county containing locality
+::*locality is contained within [county] Co. rather than adjacent [county on label] Co.; if county on label differs from county containing locality
 == Georeferencing Tips ==

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 ::+	“and” something (not often used)
 :::	Ex:		sec. 5+7
-*Township sections should be entered as “sec. x+y” to include two separate adjacent sections, or “sec. x-y” for sections x through y (x and y not adjacent but :collecting may have occurred in intermediate sections). e.g: label: “Defiance Tp. Secs. 5 and 7 Defiance Co. O.” would yield the following locality: Defiance Township, sec. 5+7, Defiance Co., OH
+*Township sections should be entered as “sec. x+y” to include two separate adjacent sections, or “sec. x-y” for sections x through y (x and y not adjacent but :collecting may have occurred in intermediate sections). e.g: label: “Defiance Tp. Secs. 5 and 7 Defiance Co. O.” would yield the following locality: Defiance Twp., sec. 5+7, Defiance Co., OH
 *If the locality is in the USA it ends with the state abbreviation EX: NM, CA, OH
 *If the locality is not  in the USA, it ends with the full spelling of the country name

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 *Directions from localities should be abbreviated (e.g. N of Papallacta, 4km N Sálakos)
 *A locality name should start with a specific containing entity, if the most specific containing entity is a county or state, use the most specific locality information.
-**e.g. the locality name of "CO:Moffat Co. Rt. 40, 9.8 miles W Maybell" would be "US-40, 9.8mi W Maybell, Moffat Co., CO". However, "CO:Moffat Co. 9.8 miles W Maybell" would yield a locality of "9.8mi W Maybell, Moffat Co., CO" as 9.8mi W Maybell is specific locality information, but is not a containing entity. Roads can be considered as containing entities since the specimen is collected along the road.
+**e.g. the locality name for "CO:Moffat Co. Rt. 40, 9.8 miles W Maybell" would be "US-40, 9.8mi W Maybell, Moffat Co., CO". However, "CO:Moffat Co. 9.8 miles W Maybell" would yield a locality name of "9.8mi W Maybell, Moffat Co., CO" as 9.8mi W Maybell is specific locality information, but is not a containing entity. Roads can be considered as containing entities since the specimen is collected along the road.
 *Do not add a space between mile/kilometer markers on highways (e.g. mi318, km58).  Nor as a direction from somewhere (e.g. 82mi E, 30km W)
 *Use the “savannah” spelling of the word (vs. savanna) for localities.

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 *Barrenando is formally defined as “drilling”, but can be thought of burrowing.  As in “barrenando en caña de azucar” which translates to “burrowing in sugar cane”. In this case this would be an association.
 *Georef labels with coordinates from Chile collected by Sharkey, Argentina collected by Archangelsky or coordinates on labels collected by C. C. King as if the coordinates weren’t there. (the coordinates on the label were added after the fact and are not necessarily accurate)
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