[MetaCRS] RE: Quick and Dirty CSV File

[Norm Olsen]

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?

Norm

From: metacrs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:metacrs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Landon Blake
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 9:29 AM
To: metacrs at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [MetaCRS] Quick and Dirty CSV File

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.

A couple of things came up when I was working on the file:

-       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?
-       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.
-       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.
-       I also propose we use the negative sign to indicate west longitude values and south latitude values.

I will await discussion before making revisions to this file.

Landon




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