Element Description: Decimal Longitude

The longitude of the geographic center of a location where an event occurred (organism collected, observation made), expressed in decimal degrees. Positive values are East of the Greenwich Meridian, negative values are West of the Greenwich Meridian. Describes the point-radius representation of the location, along with DecimalLatitude, GeodeticDatum, and CoordinateUncertaintyInMeters. Example: -71.0943235

Change Log:

• 02 Aug 2005 - wording changes in descriptions, no functional change ( JohnWieczorek, per Ginzbarg).

• 22 May 2008 - wording changes in descriptions, no functional change ( JohnWieczorek, per O Tuama).

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