I stand (happily) corrected.
Roy
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Richard, Joel M <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Assuming you're asking about storing them in the database, I will differ from Roy here and suggest saving them into to floating-point-number fields. That's always seemed to me to be to be the bets way to go (one discrete data element per field).
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> I also feel combining is easier than parsing, but that's just me. :)
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> --Joel
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> On Jun 28, 2012, at 3:04 PM, Roy Tennant wrote:
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>> Myself, I'd go with LAT,LONG. in decimal notation, with preceding plus
>> or minus when appropriate. Easy to parse and Google Maps ready.
>> Roy
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>> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Mark Jordan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> code4libers:
>>>
>>> What's the best (i.e., most standardized and flexible) format for storing single-point geocoordinates? Pages like http://www.maptools.com/UsingLatLon/Formats.html offer too many choices.
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>>
>>> Mark
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