[talk-ph] recommended csv format

[Jim Morgan]

On Thursday, 19 September, 2013 11:22 AM, Rally de Leon wrote:
> lat,long,name or long,lat,name? and why do you prefer one over the 
> other? (eg. less hassle, less clicks to import csv to common GIS 
> softwares)
Just my opinion: when people talk about co-ordinates, they normally talk 
about Lat and Long (almost never Long and Lat), so they should probably 
be in that order! I'd say gpsbabel has it right, and your other software 
is swimming against the tide.

The advantage of XML formats as opposed to CSV, is that they specify 
that each point is either <lat></lat> or <long></long> so there is no 
ambiguity.

Jim