Georeferencing Germany: Presenting coordinates and uncertainty measures for administrative boundaries

Often historic collection data contains verbatim place names for specimens collected. Some of these places are vague and non-specific, referring to entire states or cities, while others were more detailed descriptions. This georeferencing process ultimately resulted in a searchable table of place names in Germany, at different administrative levels. For each, there was a latitude, longitude and uncertainty radius assigned. These can be used in most collection databases as it provides a way to pinpoint vague locations.