This is probably worth posting here.

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From: David Eades dceades@illinois.edu Date: 25 May 2011 00:17:20 CEST To: "'David Remsen (GBIF)'" dremsen@gbif.org Cc: "'Burke Chih-Jen Ko (GBIF)'" bko@gbif.org, 'Hernán Pereira' ellocodelassembler@gmail.com, "Flood, Rich" jrflood@illinois.edu Subject: error in TDWG geogrphic classification Reply-To: dceades@illinois.edu

Dear David,

Hernán Pereira and Rich Flood have located what we believe is an error in the TDWG data that has been widely used. The geographic coordinates associated with Sardinia actually form the outline of Corsica. The geographic coordinates associated with Corsica actually outline Sardinia. We got the data from TDWG in 2001. I have separately notified Kew, which has the same data we got from TDWG available for download at http://kew.org/gis/tdwg/.

David