Georeferencing is the process of assigning coordinates to generally textual descriptions of occurrence localities (e.g., the location where a specimen was collected). Some helpful resource about georeferencing can be found on the iDigBio website. Symbiota includes several tools for facilitating this process:

• Mapping tool: view the map, place a point on the occurrence location, and assign an error radius
• GEOLocate tool: view a map (many layers available, including USGS Topo Maps, Open Street Maps, Bing Maps, and Leaflet maps), view auto-generated potential georeference points, edit point location and error radius
• Coordinate cloning tool: search for records with similar or identical locality information and import any coordinates associated with that locality
• Duplicate specimen/locality data import: search for records with identical or similar collector information or locality information and import any coordinates associated with the duplicate’s locality
• Batch georeferencing: use the Leaflet maps, GEOLocate, and coordinate cloning tool in batch for a collection of specimens with similar/identical locality descriptions
• Integration with GEOLocate Collaborative Georeferencing (CoGe): export records to GEOLocate CoGe to be collaboratively georeferenced using the GEOLocate web client