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<geo>

geographical coordinates

contains any expression of a set of geographic coordinates, representing a point, line, or area on the surface of the earth in some notation.

Module namesdatesNDGEOGva

Attributes

Global and inherited attributes:
att.global @xml:id@n@xml:lang@xml:base@xml:space
att.global.analytic @ana
att.global.change @change
att.global.facs @facs
att.global.linking @corresp@synch@sameAs@copyOf@next@prev@exclude@select
att.global.rendition @rend@style@rendition
att.global.responsibility @cert@resp
att.global.source @source
att.cmc @generatedBy
att.declaring @decls

Classes and content

Member of
model.measureLike
May contain

Character data

  • character data
Contained by

analysis

cmc

core

corpus

dictionaries

drama

figures

header

iso-fs

linking

msdescription

namesdates

spoken

tagdocs

textcrit

textstructure

transcr

verse

Note

Uses of geo can be associated with a coordinate system, defined by a geoDecl element supplied in the TEI header, using the @decls attribute. If no such link is made, the assumption is that the content of each geo element will be a pair of numbers separated by whitespace, to be interpreted as latitude followed by longitude according to the World Geodetic System.

Example

<geoDecl xml:id="WGS" datum="WGS84">World Geodetic System</geoDecl>
<geoDecl xml:id="OS" datum="OSGB36">Ordnance Survey</geoDecl>
<!-- ... -->
<location>
  <desc>A tombstone plus six lines of
Anglo-Saxon text, built into the west tower (on the south side
of the archway, at 8 ft. above the ground) of the
Church of St. Mary-le-Wigford in Lincoln.</desc>
  <geo decls="#WGS">53.226658 -0.541254</geo>
  <geo decls="#OS">SK 97481 70947</geo>
</location>

Content model

<content>
    <textNode/>
  </content>