- From: Satoru Takagi <satoru.takagi@ubin.jp>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:45:40 +0900
- To: public-xg-geo@w3.org
>All coordinates in this profile shall, as a default, be expressed as Latitude Longitude (in that order) as decimal degrees white space separated. Quite a lot of notations for latitude longitude (and altitude , crs) information exist in the world. There might be each advantage and a disadvantage respectively. However, I think that it is desirable that they are few. For the improvement of the interoperability. I think that it can settle to the following two notations by simply thinking. Methods of separately describing latitude and longitude. Methods of description as one character string. In a lot of usages, latitude and the longitude will be considered to be inseparable one resource. Casual use cases such as microformats (geo improvements), WikiProject Geographical coordinates, and geoRSS might be the examples. Though they are all different formats. #Methods of divided description as a different attribute are omitted because there are a lot of examples. Well, I think that it is necessary to consider ISO6709/1983 as an important candidate in such a situation for one character string format.
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