[georss] Intended lat/long order

Christopher Schmidt crschmidt at metacarta.com
Fri Nov 9 00:03:19 EST 2007


On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 08:43:15PM -0800, Ron Lake wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> In GML (and this part of geoRSS is GML), the interpretation of
> coordinates is determined by the CRS (Coordinate Reference System)
> referenced by the sRSName attribute.  In geoRSS GML only one CRS is
> currently supported and hence the attribute is assumed.  In effect:
> 
>  
> 
> <gml:Point>
>        <gml:pos>37.4 -122.1</gml:pos>
> </gml:Point>
> 
>  
> 
> Means
> 
>  
> 
> <gml:Point srsName = "urn:x-ogc:def:crs:EPSG:4326">
>        <gml:pos>37.4 -122.1</gml:pos>
> </gml:Point>
> 
>  
> 
> If you look up this URN at http://www.epsg-registry.org you will find:


<Lots of XML>

How does this tell me that the order is lat, lon? Which tag did I need
to look at? I rea through it all, evne clicked the links ,but couldn't
undrstand where it said that.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta


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