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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I’ve never used a Wiki before. I have posted a comment under
the discussion tab. Is that what one is supposed to do to comment on the
current proposal?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Norm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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metacrs-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:metacrs-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Landon Blake<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 05, 2009 9:29 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> metacrs@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [MetaCRS] Quick and Dirty CSV File<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I
busted out a quick and dirty CSV file for discussion. I attached it as a text
file with comments. I also attached it as a Microsoft Excel Spreadhseet without
comments and with some formatting. I can also make it available in Open Office
Format.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>A
couple of things came up when I was working on the file:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I
provided a suggested 3D tolerance in the units of the expected coordinates.
Does anyone see a problem with using these units instead of the source
coordinates?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><span
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I
added a comments section. I figured we could add comments there, without
commas, of course. This will make a good “metadata” field for each row if
needed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><span
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I
didn’t have to work with degrees-minutes-seconds ordinate values, but some rows
might need to. I would suggest we use a format like 37-57-23.66554 and
-121-45-18.55265 for ordinate values that need to be in this format. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><span
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I
also propose we use the negative sign to indicate west longitude values and
south latitude values.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I
will await discussion before making revisions to this file.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Landon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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