Enhancingthevisualiza0onofbiologicaldata:EDITGeographictoolsRoca,P.1;Sastre,P.1;Lobo,J.M.1;Meganck,B.2;Theeten,F.2;MergenP.2.;Müller,A.3;Kohlbecker,A.3;DusanS.4.,MikiewiczD.5

1MuseoNacionaldeCienciasNaturales(CSIC),2RoyalMuseumforCentralAfrica(RMCA),3BotanicalGardenandBotanicalMuseum(BGBM),4InsRtuteofBotany,SlovakianAcademyofSciences(IBSAS),5HungarianMuseumofNaturalHistory(HNHM)

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COREEDITGeoTools

allthetoolsareOpenSource

allowspostgreSQLtobeusedasabackendspa5aldatabaseforgeographicinforma5onsystems(GIS)

server‐sidework,includingthegenera5onofimagesto

download

non‐profitorganiza5onleadingthedevelopmentofstandardsfor

geospa5alservices

Upload,symbolizeandqueryyourpointdata

EDITmapViewer aimstoprovidetaxonomistsaneasy‐to‐usewebapplicaRontovisualize,filter,symbolize,printandanalyzetheirownpointdata

hDp://edit.csic.es/geo/mapviewer/edit.html

EDITmapViewertoolsOpenSourcemapviewinglibrary,wri\eninpureJavaScript

JavaScriptlibrarydesignedtochangethewaythatyouwriteJavascript.

jQueryplugins‐farbtasRc‐jqModal‐flot

Addextrageographicinforma0ontoyourmap,includingon‐screendigi0zedpolygons

Getyourmapsatdifferentresolu0onsandindifferentformats(TIFF,JPEG,PNG,GIF…)

Performbasicspa0alanalysis,browseandvisualizeGBIFdensitydata

mapRESTservicesIntegrateclearcolourfulmapsintoyourown

websiteorapplicaRon.Choosedatasourcesandadaptcolour,symbology,extentandlinetypestofully

customiseyourmap.

YouconstructtheURL,weprovideyouamapimage

h\p://edit.csic.es/v1/areas.php?l=earth&ad=tdwg3:a:PHI,VAN,BOR|b:BIS,SUM,CBD,SOL,ASS&as=a:8dd3c7,,1|b:e91f16,5be166,1,1_2&ms=800&label=1

Inthisexample,TDWGlevel3hasbeensymbolizedwiththeparametersdefinedin“a”and“b”style.EachstylehasassociatedalistofTDWGlevel3codes.YoucanfindthemapRESTAPIinh\p://dev.e‐taxonomy.eu/trac/wiki/MapRestServiceApi

SomeEDITDataPortalsalreadyusethisservicetoshowtheirdata:

‐h\p://dev.e‐taxonomy.eu/dataportal/palmae/‐h\p://dev.e‐taxonomy.eu/dataportal/cichorieae/‐h\p://dev.e‐taxonomy.eu/dataportal/diptera/

AlsoamapRESTserviceisreadyforploqngpointdata.Weonlyneedthecoordinates,youdefineyour

symbology…that’sall!ATBIMercantourwebsitealreadyusesthisservice:

‐h\p://www.atbi.eu/mercantour‐mariqme/?q=node/13&tree_s=755

publishesdatafromanymajorspa5aldatasourceusingopen

standards