[Vorbis-dev] gps tags in vorbis comments

[Stefan Kost]

hi,

Silvia Pfeiffer schrieb:
> According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo_(microformat), the geo
> microformat in XML is specified either with three classes (Name,
> longitude, latitude) or in an integrated way.
> Elevation seems to be always separate.
> 
> Where longitute and latitude are put together, they are separated by a
> semicolon:
> e.g. Belvide Reservoir is at <span class="geo">52.686; -2.193</span>.
> 
> The current proposal at
> http://wiki.xiph.org/VorbisComment#Geo_Location_fields suggests 4
> tags:
> name
> longitude
> latitude
> elevation
> 
> May I suggest to at least put longitude and latitude together in one
> tag? I think they don't make much sense separately. And the separator
> should be ";" as is being used by other formats.


Thats a great sugestion. So what about leaving LOCATION as it is (human readable 
location) and adding a bundled GEO_LOCATION field. I've updated the wiki
http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/VorbisComment#Geo_Location_fields

Stefan
> 
> Just my 2c.
> 
> Cheers,
> Silvia.
> 
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 5:42 AM,  <xiphmont at xiph.org> wrote:
>> I *mildly* prefer one tag... but I'm just going to add that vote and
>> go along with whatever folks decide.  We can add it to the docs once
>> people decide.
>>
>> Monty
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