[georss] Intended lat/long order

Christopher Schmidt crschmidt at crschmidt.net
Fri Nov 9 01:21:09 EST 2007


On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:57:21PM -0800, Marten Hogeweg wrote:
> All this back and forth may have been avoided if the GeoRSS site simply
> stated the order of the coordinates in addition to providing samples.


http://georss.org/gml
"Within <coords> the latitude and longitude values
are separated by a space." //

"Within <coordList> the coordinates of the points on the
line are entered as pairs of
latitude and longitude values, separated by spaces."

http://georss.org/simple
"A point contains a single latitude-longitude pair, separated by
whitespace." 

"A line contains a space seperated list of latitude-longitude pairs,
with each pair separated by whitespace. There must be at least two
pairs.

"A polygon contains a space seperated list of latitude-longitude pairs,
with each pair separated by whitespace. There must be at least four
pairs, with the last being identical to the first (so a polygon has a
minimum of three actual points)."

How should the wording change, in your opinion?

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer


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