dismo (version 0.7-11)

biogeomancer: Georeferencing

Description

A link to the biogeomancer georeferencing web-service. See http://bg.berkeley.edu/latest/ for more information and a rich visual interface.

Usage

biogeomancer(country = "", adm1 = "", adm2 = "", locality = "", singleRecord=TRUE, progress="text")

Arguments

country
Character. Country
adm1
Character. Name of the first-level administrative subdivsion. E.g. the State in the United States and India, the Province in China and Canada
adm2
Character. Name of the second-level administrative subdivsion. E.g. the county in the United States, and the district in India and China
locality
Character. Locality description
singleRecord
Boolean. If TRUE, the record with lowest uncertainty is selected when several records are returned
progress
Character. Valid values are "" (no progress indicator), "text" (the default) and "windows" (on that platform only)

Value

  • data frame with three columns: longitude, latitude, and uncertainty (see Wieczorek et al., 2004). The datum is always WGS84.

References

Guralnick, R.P., J. Wieczorek, R. Beaman, R.J. Hijmans and the BioGeomancer Working Group, 2006. BioGeomancer: Automated georeferencing to map the world's biodiversity data. PLoS Biology 4: 1908-1909. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040381 Wieczorek, J., Q. Guo and R.J. Hijmans, 2004. The point-radius method for georeferencing point localities and calculating associated uncertainty. International Journal of Geographic Information Science 18: 745-767. http://bg.berkeley.edu/latest/

Examples

Run this code
# biogeomancer(country='United States', adm1='California', adm2='Yolo', locality=c('Davis', 'Woodland'))
# biogeomancer(country='United States', adm1='California', adm2='Yolo', locality='1.5 miles North of Davis')

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