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This simple batch load does not geocode the labels, it just allows you to quickly capture many verbatim collecting events.  The input is a text file.  Whitespace lines indicate a new collecting event, "---" lines indicate a whitespace line (they will be translated to newline).
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This simple batch load does not geocode the labels, it just allows you to quickly capture many verbatim collecting events.  The input is a text file.  Whitespace lines indicate a new collecting event, "---" lines indicate a whitespace line (they will be translated to newline).  You may need to convert your line endings to UNIX format.
  
 
== Example file ==
 
== Example file ==

Revision as of 13:56, 21 April 2010

This simple batch load does not geocode the labels, it just allows you to quickly capture many verbatim collecting events. The input is a text file. Whitespace lines indicate a new collecting event, "---" lines indicate a whitespace line (they will be translated to newline). You may need to convert your line endings to UNIX format.

Example file


USA:TX:Brazos Co.
2 mil SW College
Station, ix-12-2009
S.Smith, Malaise

USA:TX:Brazos Co.
2 mil SW College
Station, ix-13-2009
S.Smith, Malaise
---
Collected off of
really really big tree



The above would result in 2 collecting events, the "---" is translated into a space when uploaded.

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