Area

The Area table includes geographic names given for a specific area of investigations. Area names attribute to the CAMPAIGN and EVENT tables, the latter appears in the metaheader of a data set. To define an area open the table and click on New. During the import of event lists, area names will automaticaly be added to the area list.

To search for certain localities, cities, villages or geographic features and its position a good address is earthsearch

Names of areas and localities are not standardized and thus should not be used for retrievals. Some standardization will be implemented in the future by using the limits of oceans and seas as defined by the International Hydrographic Organization, Monaco (IHO). For continents above sea level, the names of all countries will be included. While importing new events, an algorithms will automaticaly set the relations to the area table by using the IHO-defined limits of seas and the borders of countries. This will allow retrievals of data in a specific area given as a countries name or an IHO definition of an ocean/sea.