[Vorbis-dev] gps tags in vorbis comments

[Stefan Kost]

Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves schrieb:
> On 9/8/08, Conrad Parker <conrad at metadecks.org> wrote:
>> The single tag requires an extra parsing step, so I think it's more
>> complicated :-)
> 
> What I meant was not in the parsing aspects, but on creating a bunch
> of different tags that served the same one purpose.  That seemed like
> overcomplicating things to me.
> 
>> I'd also guess that the elevation should be optional,
>> and it is more easily omitted if it is a separate tag.
> 
> If there are optional tags then I guess it makes more sense to have
> them all separated as not to confuse applications when those are
> omitted.
> 
> -Ivo

Conrad is right, elevation is optional. I am slightly in favour of separate 
tags, but I would not have problems with a combined tag either. But if we start 
having joint tags we should spend one more thought on the separator character. 
Maybe there are more such tags in the future.

Stefan