Ben,

R package 'dismo' has two functions for georeferencing textual locality
descriptions:  'biogeomancer' and 'geocode' (the latter has some use
restrictions)
Biogeomancer has many advantages if you use it in  a browser (preferably in
batch mode) --- currently it does not work in Chrome.

http://bg.berkeley.edu/latest/

Best, Robert

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Ben Weinstein
<benweinstein2010@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello all, posting a question for a friend.
>
> Has anyone had any experience georeferencing historical museum data using R
> packages? I'd also be interested in any up to date solutions outside of R,
> but it would be easily to integrate all analysis into one script.
>
> Very Best,
>
> Ben Weinstein
>
>
> PS: My new year's resolution was to get good enough to contribute a single
> answer to this listserv. Thanks for all the help this past year.
>
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