ISO 6709

Standard representation of geographic point location by coordinates

ISO 6709:2008/Cor 1:2009

Standard representation of geographic point location by coordinates

ISO 6709:2008

Standard representation of geographic point location by coordinates

ISO 6709:1983

Standard representation of latitude, longitude and altitude for geographic point locations

ISO/WD 6709

Standard representation of latitude, longitude and altitude for geographic point locations

This document specifies the representation of latitude and longitude applicable to data interchange and human-readable representation and maintains strict backwards compatibility with previous editions of ISO 6709. 

This document also supports the representations of other coordinate types, including representations of height or depth, and time that may be associated with those coordinates as defined through one or more coordinate reference systems (CRS) to remove ambiguity.

This document is not applicable to the representation of information held within computer memories during processing and in their use in registers of geodetic codes and parameters.  

Additionally, files of point locations, and well-known identifier usages (simple identifiers, metadata or geometric objects, and data sets with embedded CRS identifiers) are out of scope.

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ISO 8601-2 Date and time — Representations for information interchange — Part 2: Extensions

ISO/IEC 8859-1 Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 1: Latin alphabet No. 1

ISO 19111 Geographic Information —Referencing by coordinates

ISO/TS 19127 Geographic Information — Geodetic codes and parameters

ISO 19162 Geographic information — Well-known text representation of coordinate reference systems