Visualize your own biological records in Google Earth

GBIF is providing this application to readily upload point coordinates of biological records to the Google Earth client for data visualization and data cleaning (e.g. checking for suspicious outliers). Upload your longitude and latitude coordinates in decimal degrees (see below) and a file will be created for download into the Google Earth client. You can also associate a web address with each coordinate and add a meaningful description to each coordinate.

You can:

• Copy and paste coordinates into an online form.
• Upload a file from your computer.
• For application developers, obtain Google Earth files from your applications.

Converting coordinates from Degrees, minutes, seconds into decimal degress follows a simple formula:

• Place a minus (-) sign in front of latitudes south of the equator or longitudes west of the zero meridian,

1. 96 + [(45/60) + (36/3600)]
2. = 96 + [(0.75) + (0.01)]
3. = -96.76 (add the minus sign)

These scripts have been contributed by Derek Munro of the Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility (CBIF) to GBIF beginning on 2005-09-28. More...