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Roderic Page

http://iphylo.blogspot.com

Affiliation: College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

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Visualising Geophylogenies in Web Maps Using GeoJSON

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Geophylogeny for Hawaiian katydids (genus Banza) displayed using the Leaflet framework with map tiles by CartoDB under CC-BY 3.0 license.

This article describes a simple tool to display geophylogenies on web maps including Google Maps and OpenStreetMap. The tool reads a NEXUS format file that includes geographic information, and outputs a GeoJSON format file that can be displayed in a web map application.