Geographic location: southern - most geographic latitude

Name Geographic location: southern - most geographic latitude 
Definiton Southern - most coordinate of the data scope boundary defined by geographic latitude in degrees (positive towards north). 
Obligation
  • dataset or dataset series: mandatory 
  • service: conditional; mandatory for services with explicit geographic propagation. 
Multiplicity [1..*] for datasets and dataset series
[0..*] for spatial data services
Example 41.62

Tehnical data
 
INSPIRE equivalent  Geographic bounding box: southBoundLatitude
Comparison with INSPIRE equivalent
ISO equivalent [346] southBoundLongitude
Comparison with ISO equivalent
XPath identificationInfo[1]/*/extent/*/geographicElement/*/southBoundLatitude
Data type angle, expressed in degrees with at least two decimal digits
Domain -90.00 ≤ southernmost latitude ≤ northernmost latitude
Implementation instructions none


Encoding example: Geographic bounding box
 
<gmd:MD_Metadata…
…
   <gmd:identificationInfo>
      <gmd:MD_DataIdentification>
…
          <gmd:extent>
              <gmd:EX_Extent>
                   <gmd:geographicElement>
                       <gmd:EX_GeographicBoundingBox>
                           <gmd:extentTypeCode>
                               <gco:Boolean>true</gco:Boolean>
                           </gmd:extentTypeCode>
                          <gmd:westBoundLongitude>
                               <gco:Decimal>13.01</gco:Decimal>
                           </gmd:westBoundLongitude>
                           <gmd:eastBoundLongitude>
                               <gco:Decimal>19.45</gco:Decimal>
                           </gmd:eastBoundLongitude>
                           <gmd:southBoundLatitude>
                               <gco:Decimal>41.62</gco:Decimal>
                           </gmd:southBoundLatitude>
                           <gmd:northBoundLatitude>
                               <gco:Decimal>46.55</gco:Decimal>
                           </gmd:northBoundLatitude>
                       </gmd:EX_GeographicBoundingBox>
                  </gmd:geographicElement>
              </gmd:EX_Extent>
          </gmd:extent>
...
      </gmd:MD_DataIdentification>
   </gmd:identificationInfo>
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