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The GEOLocate Project (http://www.museum.tulane.edu/geolocate) has produced a suite of new software tools and services for automated georeferencing of natural history collections data. Since 2002, the project has released a desktop application, a framework for collaborative georeferencing, a web based application, and georeferencing and validation services to facilitate direct integration with collection digitization efforts. Within the past year, version 2 of the web services for georeferencing has been released and includes enhanced results metadata, improved ranking and filtering of results, georeferencing language selection (English, Spanish, Catalan, Basque or Galician), determination of uncertainty radii as defined by the GBIF Best Practices for Georeferencing, and determination of uncertainty polygons. We also provide a service for retrieving results from alternative georeferencing methods, such as Biogeomancer, and passing those results back to clients in a standard GEOLocate response format. The GEOLocate web client was recently updated to take advantage of all of these new developments. This presentation will focus on the web service enhancements, specifically an example of consuming GEOLocate web services within a web based environment and an evaluation of uncertainty assessment methods.