Geo coding is important ...

MosquitoMap is useful for: * informing decisions about where mosquito collection efforts should be directed * identifying areas relevant to the study of mosquito biogeography, evolution and biodiversity * allow predictions about the potential spread of exotic mosquito introductions * allow predictions about the potential effects of global warming on mosquito distributions * allow insights into mosquito community structure, and environmental and climatic correlates to species occurrence (ecological niche) * allow continent-wide rather than just local studies of vector-borne disease * identifying cryptic evolutionary lineages that differ in geographic or ecological space.

More and more we will want map aid projects, programmes and spending against geospatial data like this (and against poverty maps, climate, land use, population patterns and so on). We are increasingly going to have access to other kinds of geospatial information, but unless donors start to collect and report it in a common format, we won't have information about aid projects to go with it.