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I'm forwarding Ken's original email again to see if the formatting can
come through correctly. I've heard from a few people that the original
message was gibberish. Let's try this again.
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Subject: Metadata standards for GPS coordinates?
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.
--Ken Rockwell
Univ. of Utah
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