Malesian geographic gazetteer
This Geographic gazetteer for the Malesian region (Indonesia, Philippines, Papua new Guinea, Brunei, SIngapore, Malaysia and Timor Leste) has been created within the Malaysian Butterfly project from Naturalis Biodiversity Center.
The geographic table was constituted from combining two large datasets, enrichening the data using Google API with open refine and on the fly adding locations while registerring specimens. The two main sources for the database were
- BRAHMS (the Naturalis database for plant specimen)
- CRS (the Naturalis database for animal specimen)
- locations were added on the fly during butterfly registration using Google developers geocoder
