Nice Species Distribution Maps with GBIF-Data in R

Here's an example of how to easily produce real nice distribution maps from GBIF-data in R with package maps...

# go to gbif and download a csv file with the species you 
# want (example data)
# ..in R first set working directory to your download directory..
data <- read.csv("occurrence-search-1316347695527.CSV",
        header = T, sep = ",")

str(data)
require(maps)
pdf("myr_germ.pdf")
map("world", resolution = 75)
points(data$Longitude, data$Latitude, col = 2, cex = 0.05)
text(-140, -50, "MYRICARIA\nGERMANICA")
dev.off()

# that's all there is to it..