Since we all live on standards, I can suggest RFC7946, GeoJSON
(https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7946) for all of your location specification
needs:
{
"type" : "Point",
"coordinates" : [
-121.556359,
39.5137752
]
}
or one line (55 characters, no spaces, hopefully short enough):
{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-121.556359,39.5137752]}
GeoJSON supports "properties" which you can define how you like:
{
"type" : "Point",
"coordinates" : [
-121.556359,
39.5137752
],
"properties" : {
"address" : "121 Gigawatts Ave, Springfield, OH 45501
US",
"hardware" : "Cisco 2924",
"elevation" : "124m"
}
}
Note that many formats now list Longitude first, Latitude second.
http://www.macwright.org/lonlat/
I tend to try to offer/use machine-readable formats first, then human-readable,
because I live for automation. GeoJSON benefits from being both.
Beckman
On Fri, 9 Dec 2016, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
Yes, that's along the lines of what I was thinking. Pre-define a certain
number of columns of data that will fit in the snmp syslocation field in
most devices (some vendors have surprisingly short string length limits,
grrrrrr). And use something like a pipe delimited CSV format in that field,
so it has the comma separated decimal degrees lat/long in one column, and
human readable street address in another.
Also worth noting that many recent SNMP-enabled, high capacity point to
point microwave radios have built in GPS receivers for timing and location
purposes, which gather elevation data (in meters above MSL usually).
Perhaps a column for elevation in meters MSL. The sort of data that is
useful for a mobile network operator with thousands of point to point RF
links on rooftops and towers, for auditing and compliance purposes.
On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 2:09 PM, Alan Buxey <a.l.m.bu...@lboro.ac.uk> wrote:
Yes. But don’t just put in coordinates... Put in other details and use a
standard separator 😊
alan
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