This publication provides guidelines to the best practice for georeferencing. Though it is targeted specifically at biological occurrence data, the concepts and methods presented here can be applied in other disciplines where spatial interpretation of location is of interest.
It is important to include in the data preparation phase the maintenance of the original geographic information in the corresponding textual DwC elements, before the start or before the changes are made, it is a point of security if there is an error in the process.
It is important to include in the data preparation phase the maintenance of the original geographic information in the corresponding textual DwC elements, before the start or before the changes are made, it is a point of security if there is an error in the process.