We have about 700 of these! I have debated on and off creating a central grid reference for each parish and using that to plot them, but then I question, like yourself, would people bother reading anything saying this was just a generic central parish point and not the actual location, so I put it on a backburner again. Thanks for raising this, interested to see replies.
Sam
Sam Mellonie BSc (Hons) ACIfA (she/her)
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Hi all,
Hope you're all keeping well! I've got one of those random Friday (not Friday) questions here, wondering how other HERs tackle this issue - what do you do about records that have got really poor (or false) locational data? I suspect the answer for a lot of you will be 'it depends...', but thought I'd ask to see what you all think!
We've currently got a few hundred or so records in our HER, where there is no GIS object - these are usually for things like antiquarian discoveries, things known only from documentary sources, etc, where an exact location for the find or site isn't known. I know you can obviously qualify your GIS objects to state how accurate you think they are mapped, and I'm fine with sticking a pin on the map for something that I know the rough area (ie.6 figure grid ref) and saying it was in this vicinity. Once you get to the more vague level of 'found in this parish', or 'found between x village and y village), then it feels a bit misleading to give them a GIS object - to me it feels like you're giving a false level of confidence about where the feature might have been (ie. people just see the pin on the map and think x marks the spot, without checking the confidence level of the mapping). We've previously chosen to not give these records any GIS object, and relied on their descriptions and parish location tab to do the job. This does mean that they never get returned in any HER search that is GIS based however (ie, pretty much all commercial HER searches we do), and obviously the information they have then gets missed in those cases.
Just wondering how people go about mapping these sorts of things - random pins i the centre of villages or parishes, or not mapped at all?
Cheers!
Richard Watts
Lincolnshire HER
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