Partial creation of geothes harvester documentation

Author: themerekat

content/portal_manager/geothes/harvester/_index.en.md

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+title: "Geographic Harvester"
+date: 2024-02-08
+lastmod: 2024-02-08
+authors: ["Katie Pearson"]
+editors: [""]
+draft: false
+weight: 10
+keywords: ["geography","geographic thesaurus","country","continent","state","province","county","municipality"]
+---
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+The Geographic Harvester tool can be used to automatically populate the polygons delineating the borders of geographic units, provided a corresponding geographic unit can be located in the [geoBoundaries API](https://www.geoboundaries.org/) (Runfola et al. 2020). This API includes polygons for many levels of geographic unit.
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+ Before populating geographic polygons, the geographic units must already exist in the geographic thesaurus. To add units to the thesaurus, [see these instructions](https://biokic.github.io/symbiota-docs/portal_manager/geothes/add/).
+{{</ notice >}}
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+1. To populate the polygons of geographic units, use the Sitemap to navigate to the Geographic Thesaurus under "Administrative Functions (Super Admins only)" and click "Go to Geographic Harvester" at the top of the page.
+2. The resulting page will show you a list of all the 
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+The Symbiota Support Hub gratefully acknowledges the work of the geoBoundaries project, which is essential to the functioning of this tool:
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+**Runfola, D. et al.** (2020) geoBoundaries: A global database of political administrative boundaries. PLoS ONE 15(4): e0231866. [https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231866](https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231866).