Term Name: | dwcgeospatial:DecimalLatitude |
Label: | Decimal Latitude |
Term version IRI: | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/geospatial/version/DecimalLatitude-2007-04-17 |
Version of: | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/geospatial/DecimalLatitude |
Issued: | 2007-04-17 |
Definition: | The latitude of the geographic center of a location where an event occurred (organism collected, observation made), expressed in decimal degrees. Positive values are North of the Equator, negative values are South of the Equator. Describes the point-radius representation of the location, along with DecimalLongitude, GeodeticDatum, and CoordinateUncertaintyInMeters. Example: -41.0983423 |
Type: | Property |
Status: | deprecated |
Replaces: | http://digir.net/schema/conceptual/darwin/2003/1.0/version/DecimalLatitude-2003-06-17 |
Is replaced by: | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/version/decimalLatitude-2009-04-24 |
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