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Pere Roca Ristol
Museo Nacional Ciencias Naturales (CSIC)
Madrid, Spain
peroc79@gmail.com
TaxonomicDatabaseWorking Group (TDWG) 2009 conference

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Visualizationofgeoreferencedinformation in formofmaps can
reportimportantbenefitsondailytaxonomistwork.
EDIT Geographic toolsmakespossible:
-as taxonomist, visualizeyourowngeoreferencedpoint data (EDIT
MapViewer)
-as web-developer, getdistributionmapsof data stored in yourdatabase
(EDIT mapRestservices)

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EDIT mapViewer
MapRest Services

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EDIT MapViewer
Well-formatted CSV file
Taxonomistgeoreferenced
data, coordinates in
latitude/longitudeand decimal
notation
More complexoperations:
-createandsymbolizeyourownpolygons Basic features:
-GeoSpatialanalysis: -Mapcomposition (add/remove WMS
1) Numberofrecordsperpolygon layers) andnavigation (zoom in/out, pan…)
2) Numberof genera perpolygon -Data symbolization
3) taxa/genera ratio perpolygon -Query your data
-Legend, scalebardownload
-Printing in differentresolutions (480dpi)
-GBIF density data browsing

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EDIT MapRest Services:youconstructthe URL andweprovideyou
distribution mapswiththespecifiedfeaturessymbolized at yourowntaste.
TDWG level 3 and 4 withthespecifiedcodesandsymbology are plotted:
tdwg4:c:MXEDU|b:MXETA||tdwg3:a:MXC,CUB|b:MXE,MXG|c:MXS,MXT
Symbologydefinition(stylesa,b,c,d)
a:329d2a,483eef,2,2_2|b:ab8dc9F,da1029,2,5_7|c:d2e347|d:f7555d
Please check theexamples(http://dev.e-taxonomy.eu/trac/wiki/MapRestServiceExamples)
andtheAPI (http://dev.e-taxonomy.eu/trac/wiki/MapRestServiceApi) for more information

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Ifdesired, you can get, insteadofanimage, a file that can be used by a webmappingapplication
(likeOpenLayers)
[{"bbox":"-46.3,-34.82,87.506,47.09",
"legend":"http://edit.csic.es/v1/sld/a93bbc32e48351a0693533bd29e65742.sld",
"layers":[{"tdwg": "tdwg3","session": "","sld":
"tdwg3_a93bbc32e48351a0693533bd29e65742.sld"},{"tdwg": "tdwg1","session": "","sld":
"tdwg1_a93bbc32e48351a0693533bd29e65742.sld"}]}]
e.g: PalmWebsite (http://dev.e-taxonomy.eu/dataportal/palmae/)

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EDIT MapServices can alsoplotyourpointcoordinatessymbolized as youwant.
od=1:44.19195,7.44663|44.1946,7.49385|44.19499,7.49437|44.06877,7.51162&os=1:c/8B0000/10/Cy
baeus%20vignai
Alpi-Marittime ATBI site
(http://atbi.eu/mercantour-
marittime/) andGemer ATBI
site
(http://www.atbi.eu/gemer/
) are
currentlyusingtheseservices

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Let’sseethetools in action!
EDIT mapRestservices:
1)http://dev.e-taxonomy.eu/trac/wiki/MapRestServiceExamples
2)EDIT PalmWebsite: http://dev.e-taxonomy.eu/dataportal/palmae/
3)Alpi-Marittime ATBI site: http://atbi.eu/mercantour-marittime/
EDIT MapViewer:
http://edit.csic.es/geo/mapviewer/edit.html