| Subject: | Metadata standards for GPS coordinates? |
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| Date: | Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:36:59 -0700 |
| From: | Ken Rockwell <[log in to unmask]> |
| To: | Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]> |
Folks, my current work
involves working in digital
collections metadata, and some digital objects have fairly detailed GPS
coordinates provided. I’m wondering if there is a “best practices”
standard for their format, which may vary considerably. Here are a
couple of
examples from recent submissions:
N 68°22.987´/W
146°24.882´
N 48 15.048° W
121 48.973°
The first one
looks better
to me, but any advice on proper format, including punctuation, will be
welcome. I also note that it appears the degree sign can be
problematic for
Content-dm to recognize, so maybe the word “degrees” should be
spelled out.
Sorry if this is
not as
map-related as it should be, but it seems a good forum to reach people
who
might also know something about this related subject.
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