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.Buxey@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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