{"id":3184,"date":"2018-05-11T10:23:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T18:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/?page_id=3184"},"modified":"2022-05-19T18:02:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T02:02:04","slug":"gnrs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/tools\/gnrs\/","title":{"rendered":"GNRS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Geographic Name Resolution Service (GNRS) resolves political division names and codes using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geonames.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GeoNames<\/a> database of geographic place names and indexes them against political division spatial objects in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalearthdata.com\/\">Natural Earth<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gadm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Global Administrative Areas<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/gadm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GADM)<\/a> databases. Among other uses, this enables what we call \"political geovalidation\" of species observations: checking that the observation coordinates fall within the declared country, state and county of observation. Political geovalidation is one of many data cleaning operations performed on the BIEN database.<\/p>\n<p>The GNRS is publicly available and can be accessed using the <a href=\"http:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/tools\/gnrs\/gnrs-api\/\">GNRS API<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/EnquistLab\/RGNRS\">GNRS R package<\/a>, and for non-programmers, the <a href=\"https:\/\/gnrs.biendata.org\/\">GNRS website<\/a>.\u00a0Try the <a href=\"https:\/\/gnrs.biendata.org\/\">GNRS now<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gnrs.biendata.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3677 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/gnrs_screenshot-1024x409.png\" alt=\"GNRS web app\" width=\"1024\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/gnrs_screenshot-1024x409.png 1024w, https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/gnrs_screenshot-300x120.png 300w, https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/gnrs_screenshot-768x306.png 768w, https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/gnrs_screenshot-1536x613.png 1536w, https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/gnrs_screenshot.png 1704w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Geographic Name Resolution Service (GNRS) resolves political division names and codes using the GeoNames database of geographic place names and indexes them against political division spatial objects in the Natural Earth and Global Administrative Areas (GADM) databases. Among other uses, this enables what we call \"political geovalidation\" of species observations: checking that the observation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":93,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-3184","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3184"}],"version-history":[{"count":64,"href":"https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3697,"href":"https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3184\/revisions\/3697"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}