[tdwg-content] New terms need resolution: geo:lat and geo:long
Steven J. Baskauf
steve.baskauf at vanderbilt.edu
Tue Jul 12 06:26:54 CEST 2011
I support this. Is there justification for also including geo:alt? In
the same way that many records are now being generated by GPS assuming
wgs84 and are hence labeled using geo:lat and geo:long, those same
records often simultaneously have the altitude generated from GPS
measurements. Requiring the user to provide two values
(dwc:minimumElevationInMeters and dwc:maximumElevationInMeters) is in
this case redundant; the geo:alt value is just repeated for the two
existing dwc:elements.
Steve
On 7/4/2011 5:24 PM, John Wieczorek wrote:
> Darwin Core Issues 82: http://goo.gl/XhxM
>
> This issue arose in discussions on the tdwg-tag list
> (http://lists.tdwg.org/pipermail/tdwg-tag/2010-August/000050.html) to
> which not everyone here has access. The issue tracker entry (URL
> above) summarizes the proposed solution to the problem, which is to
> re-use the W3C standard geographic coordinate terms geo:lat and
> geo:long from the namespace "http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#.
> These terms would be added as recommended terms organized within the
> Location class. They would not replace the existing terms
> dwc:decimalLatitude and dwc:decimalLongitude, which are not the same
> except under one special circumstance - that the dwc:geodeticDatum is
> WGS84 (or equivalent). Since this is not always the case, the existing
> Darwin Core terms cannot be omitted.
>
> Open Issues:
>
> Determine if there is any objection to include these two terms as
> recommended terms to use in the Darwin Core.
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