02 · The label
Locality to coordinates
Where is Nanumea, and how wrong might that be?
- Status
- Specified, unbuilt
- Field
- Contested — several groups working
- Who wants it
- Species distribution modelling, everything spatial.
Why it matters
A quarter of the harvest has no coordinates. Locality text does. Georeferencing is the difference between a specimen and a data point — and the uncertainty radius matters as much as the centre.
What it needs
Gazetteer matching with honest uncertainty, not a best guess.
State of the art
Mature tools exist; coverage is the problem, not method.
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