We use Batch Edit to help standardize and fill in missing Geography data. This is especially useful when we have many specimens with similar Locality Names, but varying levels of Geography data available on the specimen labels & database records. We conduct Georeferencing based on units in the Geography tree; when there is too much missing data in the Locality, we don’t georeference them in our typical workflow.
For example, we have many specimens with the Locality Name ‘Lake Sunapee, N.H.’, and the lake is actually on the border between Merrimack and Sullivan Counties. Without further research, these specimens are transcribed with the State and Locality name, but no County. In Batch Edit, we can add County and get these records into our typical georeferencing workflow.
