Geographic name resolution service: A tool for the standardization and indexing of world political division names, with applications to species distribution modeling.

ABSTRACT: Massive biological databases of species occurrences, or georeferenced locations where a species has been observed, are essential inputs for modeling present and future species distributions. Location accuracy is often assessed by determining whether the observation geocoordinates fall within the boundaries of the declared political divisions. This otherwise simple validation is complicated by the difficulty of matching political division names to the correct geospatial object. Spelling errors, abbreviations, alternative codes, and synonyms in multiple languages present daunting name disambiguation challenges. The inability to resolve political division names reduces usable data, and analysis of erroneous observations can lead to flawed results. Here, we present the Geographic Name Resoluti

SUBMITTER: Boyle BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9662723 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature