The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy is a collection of open source tools and services which together cover all aspects of the taxonomic workflow. The workflow is grouped into the following areas: taxonomic editing; publishing of edited data; data storage and exchange; collections and specimens; descriptions; fieldwork; literature; and geography.

The sub folders of this repository contains the following applications:

• coordinateConverter: A tool to parse longitute/latitute coordinates into a standard form.
• map-service: The EDIT Map Service returns map images or configurations for a WMS server (Geoserver) in response to a URL. Distribution and occurrence maps as well as legends can be generated. for a documentation see http://dev.e-taxonomy.eu/trac/wiki/MapRestServiceApi (This documentation is outdated!!!)
• mapviewer: See http://edit.africamuseum.be/edit_wp5/geo/mapviewer/maps.html

The git repository is replicated at two locations:

• https://github.com/cybertaxonomy/EDIT-geo-services
• http://dev.e-taxonomy.eu/gitweb/geo.git