[Vorbis-dev] gps tags in vorbis comments

Ralph Giles giles at xiph.org
Tue Sep 9 15:48:39 PDT 2008


On 9-Sep-08, at 3:00 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:

> I would highly recommend that the comments support a SINGLE format  
> (probably decimal degrees in WGS84 (with signed values), which is  
> the obvious singular format), and leave applications that want to  
> support more formats to link to parsing/projection libraries rather  
> than gunking up the files.

Ok, apparently I'm an idiot, and we should push parsing the variety  
of available strings into applications.

GEO_LOCATION=lat in signed decimal degrees; long. in signed decimal  
degress[; optional elevation in signed decimal metres]

Everyone happy with that?

  -r 


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