Registry WGS84 Geo Positioning

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A vocabulary for representing latitude, longitude and altitude information in the WGS84 geodetic reference datum

Prefix: wgs84
Keywords: geography
Links: Homepage

Identifier Standards

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers: Missing LUI pattern
Example Local Unique Identifier: latitude Resolve
Example CURIE: wgs84:latitude

Contacts

Contact: Missing Contact
Contributors: submitter Charles Tapley Hoyt 0000-0003-4423-4370 cthoyt

Mappings to External Registries

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 3 mappings to external registries with 2 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name	Registry Metaprefix	External Prefix
Biolink	`biolink`	`wgs`
LOV	`lov`	`geo`
Zazuko	`zazuko`	`wgs`

Providers

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A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier latitude is used to demonstrate the providers available for WGS84 Geo Positioning. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Provider Name	Provider Code	URI
WGS84 Geo Positioning	`wgs84`	http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#latitude
Bioregistry	`bioregistry`	https://bioregistry.io/wgs84:latitude

This name annotation was originally annotated in Bioregistry and is redistributed under the CC0 license.

Get the name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_name("wgs84")
'WGS84 Geo Positioning'

Get the homepage:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_homepage("wgs84")
'https://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos'