Geospatial Resources
Resources on this page are related to geospatial resources that may be useful for georeferencing.
Documents
Images
Links to external resources
Georeferencing applications
- GEOLocate, platform commonly used for georeferencing in natural history collections
- DIEA Georeferencing Calculator, alternative to the ManisNet georeferencing calculator, as that one seems to be down
Geologic unit names
- U.S. National Geologic Map Database
- British Geologic Survey Lexicon of Named Rock Units
- Australian Stratigraphic Units Database
- WEBLEX Canada
- Léxico Estratigráfico de México
- LithoLex - Germany
- RNames
Geographic name tools
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online, comprehensive resource for finding named places
- U.S. Board on Geographic Names
- Baja Flora has useful place name information for this region of Mexico
- The Imperial Gazetteer for historic place names
- Stanford’s list of gazetteers
- United Nations Toponomy Training Manual
- UNGEGN World Geographical Names Database
- UNGEGN List of National Names Authorities and Committees
- USGS Geographic Names Information System
- Falling Rain, a worldwide gazetteer for cities and towns
- Fuzzy Gazetteer is useful for bad spelling errors in locality data
- Wikimedia Commons Atlas of the World
Fossil locality name tools
Coordinate conversation tools
- United States PLSS layers, map layers to use with a GIS application
- Earth Point, PLSS tools for Google Earth
- Coordinate converter (State of West Virginia)
- Coordinate converter (Montana State University)
- U.S. National Geodetic Survey coordinate conversion and transformation tool (NCAT)
Other
- QGIS Natural History Collection Data Lesson, tutorial for curations managers and researchers who would like to perform spatial data visualization and analysis using Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
- U.S. Bureau of Land Management data portal
- U.S. Bureau of Land Management National Data
- Video showcase from the iDigBio Georeferencing Working Group
- View Section/Township/Range on Google Maps
- Statement on U.S. Geologic Survey map accuracy standards
- On X Maps, for public/private land boundaries and more
- University of Texas at Austin georeferencing resources
Videos
Contributing to this page
To contribute a resource to this page, either upload files to the georeferencing/geospatial-resources directory, or edit the page directly to add links to external resources or videos. Please see this readme for more detailed instructions.