[Vorbis-dev] gps tags in vorbis comments

Stefan Kost ensonic at hora-obscura.de
Wed Sep 10 13:48:44 PDT 2008


Hi,

yep, perfect. not sure if it should mention that degrees is floating point 
(using '.').

Stefan
Ralph Giles schrieb:
> 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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