I have a couple of other leads, including a suggestion that the Europeans (read Germans) do the job far better and that we would be best served by adopting a system similar to theirs (particularly in identifying the localities we collect from).
Scheel's book uses this method (e.g. stream 20km NNW of AnyTown) 149 17 25E 35 15 09S
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From: Cary Hostrawser[SMTP:caryho at ix.netcom.com]
Sent: 13 November, 1996 10:47 AM
To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
Subject: Re: Common fish naming
On Tue, 12 Nov 1996 00:04:31 +1100, Andrew Boyd <andrew at pcug.org.au>
wrote:
>I'm happy to do some work on this project, Cary - I have about 4 meg of
>space left on the PCUG server that is free for this sort of thing... RML
>archive commitments notwithstanding (there are a couple of other people I
>can lean on for server space ;) )
>
>I'd like to see this sort of register happen. And I agree that the list
>would be a good place to start.
Thanks Andrew
Now we just need to get a copy of the killie suffix naming convention
and start up a discussion on how it would need to work with rainbows.
I would think there are more rules that just the explanation of what
they mean. I'll try to get a formal print out of their rules and post
it for discussion.
Cary Hostrawser
Minnesota Aquarium Society
http://www.mn-aquarium.org/
Rainbowfish Study Group of North America
http://home.earthlink.net/~sbuckel/index.html
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