Term Name: | dwcgeospatial:DecimalLongitude |
Label: | Decimal Longitude |
Term version IRI: | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/geospatial/version/DecimalLongitude-2007-04-17 |
Version of: | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/geospatial/DecimalLongitude |
Issued: | 2007-04-17 |
Definition: | The longitude of the geographic center of a location where an event occurred (organism collected, observation made), expressed in decimal degrees. Positive values are East of the Greenwich Meridian, negative values are West of the Greenwich Meridian. Describes the point-radius representation of the location, along with DecimalLatitude, GeodeticDatum, and CoordinateUncertaintyInMeters. Example: -71.0943235 |
Type: | Property |
Status: | deprecated |
Replaces: | http://digir.net/schema/conceptual/darwin/2003/1.0/version/DecimalLongitude-2003-06-17 |
Is replaced by: | http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/version/decimalLongitude-2009-04-24 |
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