[Vorbis-dev] gps tags in vorbis comments

Conrad Parker conrad at metadecks.org
Fri Sep 5 01:46:27 PDT 2008


Hi,

These sound useful and standardsy, could you please add/link to
http://wiki.xiph.org/VorbisComment ?

Conrad.

2008/9/3 Stefan Kost <ensonic at hora-obscura.de>:
> hi,
>
> Ralph Giles schrieb:
>> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Stefan Kost <ensonic at hora-obscura.de> wrote:
>>
>>> is there an official or semiofficial way to store gps location in vorbis
>>> comments or any ogg file. mp4 and exif store at least:
>>> - location name (e.g. London, UK)
>>> - longitude (degree as double), latitude (degree as double), elevation
>>> (meters) (these three according to WGS84)
>>
>> I've never seen a semi official tag. There is an official "Location"
>> tag like you have above. Using the Longitude, Latitude and Elevation
>> in analogy with exif would be reasonable. Is there a common geotag
>> format that would put it all on one line?
>>
>>  -r
>
> I just defined these as separate tags for gstreamer. the LOCATION vorbistag is
> mapped to GST_TAG_GEO_LOCATION_NAME. I would be a bit uneasy with having them in
> LOCATION too, but having a GEO_LOCATION = <latitude> | <longitude> | <elevation>
> would be okay.
>
> Stefan
>
> /**
>  * GST_TAG_GEO_LOCATION_NAME:
>  *
>  * human readable descriptive location of where the media has been recorded or
>  * produced. (string).
>  */
> /**
>  * GST_TAG_GEO_LOCATION_LATITUDE:
>  *
>  * geo latitude location of where the media has been recorded or produced in
>  * degrees according to WGS84 (zero at the equator, negative values for southern
>  * latitudes) (double).
>  */
> /**
>  * GST_TAG_GEO_LOCATION_LONGITUDE:
>  *
>  * geo longitude location of where the media has been recorded or produced in
>  * degrees according to WGS84 (zero at the prime meridian in Greenwich/UK,
>  * negative values for western longitudes). (double).
>  */
> /**
>  * GST_TAG_GEO_LOCATION_ELEVATION:
>  *
>  * geo elevation of where the media has been recorded or produced in meters
>  * according to WGS84 (zero is average sea level) (double).
>  */
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