Date:         Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:10:03 -0400
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From:         Tom Elliott <[log in to unmask]>
Organization: Ancient World Mapping Center, UNC-CH
Subject:      Re: Question on form of coordinates (no vcard)
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There are standards for the digital encoding of coordinates and other
related essential information (e.g., coordinate systems, datums,
spheroids). Two places to start:

One of the major bodies dealing with the establishment of such standards
is the Open Geospatial Consortium ( http://www.opengeospatial.org/ ),
which publishes relevant specifications.

One also might care to look at the work of the Alexandria Digital
Library Gazetteer project, whose gazetteer protocol includes
specifications for the encoding of coordinates (
http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/gazetteer/ ).

Best,
Tom

Tom Elliott, Ph.D.
Director, Ancient World Mapping Center
http://www.unc.edu/awmc

CB#8110 5010 Davis Library
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC  27599-8110
U.S.A.


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