Choose the
Map for display in the header and choose
the appropriate option (
GIS- edit) from the first
drop-down list in
the maps control.
With this editor you can document locations with any
geographical object (lines, areas, ...) different from a simple
point. If coordinates are available for your data set, the GIS
editor will load a map (Google Maps) as
background. To insert the geographical object defined for e.g.
the locality click on the
button. To set the
format for point symbols use the controls for the symbol, color,
size and line
thickness above the GIS editor. To redraw the maps with new
settings click on
the
button.
With the GIS editor you can edit
the geographical information for the CollectionEventSeries
, the CollectionEvent
and an Organism
or all coordinates
related to the current specimen
. With the latest option the
colors for the objects by default will be blue for coordinates of
event series,
red for events localisations and green for coordinates of
organisms.
Furthermore you can create distribution maps
for any sample
selection.
The GIS editor has several states which are needed to handle geographical objects. For a detailed description see the GIS tutorial.