I have this mote from John Pickering of Discover Life/Global Mapper:
Greg,
If you can get all the results into an excel spreadsheet, we can map it for you no problem. It takes about twenty minutes on our end.
We need the country, state, county, location, latitude and longitude, if possible. If you can get the latitude and longitude, we can map it to the exact point. If not, we can map it down to the county, or the state, depending on how localized you can get with the results.
When you have the spreadsheet finished, save it as a text file, and either put it on your website (preferably) or email it to us. If you put it on your site, we can automatically harvest the data and check for preiodic updates.
I think this will work well and could be the "best" solution because we have an actual sympathetic biologist on the other end. However, I also strongly urge us to try many methods rather than settling on one. I think it is now becoming clear that the greatest value for this project in georeferencing (nee "mapping") is in experimentation with georeferencing methodologies and paradigms (how to make maps).
Good question. I'll wait a couple of days to see what other sorts of questions emerge then I'll ask them all at once.
Since Discover Life specializes in sharing and exchanging information, and the are very geeky, I imagine that there really are no limits on what we can do, other than the usual physical and legal ones.
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 12:10 +0000, jbruno wrote: > That sounds great, Greg. Pass on my appreciation. Will we be able to > embed the map on our blogs, or would this be the centralized map for > the project?
Flickr also has a good georeferencing capability. Group members just need to go to their "Organizr" and then add their photos to the map at their location. For example, a group I administer for an urban nature blog has members add their photos to a map: http://www.flickr.com/groups/lj_urban_nature/pool/map?mode=group
I'm not sure if it is possible to export lat/long from flickr maps so you can use it in a GIS or other appliation, however.
On Mar 28, 8:03 am, "g...@gregladen.com" <g...@gregladen.com> wrote:
> I have this mote from John Pickering of Discover Life/Global Mapper:
> Greg,
> If you can get all the results into an excel spreadsheet, we can map > it > for you no problem. It takes about twenty minutes on our end.
> We need the country, state, county, location, latitude and longitude, > if > possible. If you can get the latitude and longitude, we can map it to > the > exact point. If not, we can map it down to the county, or the state, > depending on how localized you can get with the results.
> When you have the spreadsheet finished, save it as a text file, and > either > put it on your website (preferably) or email it to us. If you put it > on > your site, we can automatically harvest the data and check for > preiodic > updates.
> I think this will work well and could be the "best" solution because > we have an actual sympathetic biologist on the other end. However, I > also strongly urge us to try many methods rather than settling on > one. I think it is now becoming clear that the greatest value for > this project in georeferencing (nee "mapping") is in experimentation > with georeferencing methodologies and paradigms (how to make maps).
The advantage I see of the Discover Life/Global Mapper over the others I've looked at so far is that DL/GM is a topo map. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but that's the kind of map I'm used to using in the field.
> I have this mote from John Pickering of Discover Life/Global Mapper:
> Greg,
> If you can get all the results into an excel spreadsheet, we can map > it > for you no problem. It takes about twenty minutes on our end.
> We need the country, state, county, location, latitude and longitude, > if > possible. If you can get the latitude and longitude, we can map it to > the > exact point. If not, we can map it down to the county, or the state, > depending on how localized you can get with the results.
> When you have the spreadsheet finished, save it as a text file, and > either > put it on your website (preferably) or email it to us. If you put it > on > your site, we can automatically harvest the data and check for > preiodic > updates.
> I think this will work well and could be the "best" solution because > we have an actual sympathetic biologist on the other end. However, I > also strongly urge us to try many methods rather than settling on > one. I think it is now becoming clear that the greatest value for > this project in georeferencing (nee "mapping") is in experimentation > with georeferencing methodologies and paradigms (how to make maps).
