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location

iati-activities/iati-activity/location

This is the reference page for the XML element location.

Definition

The sub-national geographical identification of the target locations of an activity. These can be described by gazetteer reference, coordinates, administrative areas or a textual description. Any number of locations may be reported.

Rules

This element may occur any number of times.

Attributes

@ref

An internal reference that describes the location in the reporting organisation’s own system.

This value must be of type xsd:string.

Example Usage

Example location for an iati-activity.

This element is a parent for other child elements.

An example organisation @ref of AF-KAN is declared.

<locationref="AF-KAN">
...
</location>

Full example with all child elements:

<locationref="AF-KAN">
<location-reachcode="1"/>
<location-idvocabulary="G1"code="1453782"/>
<name>
<narrative>Locationname</narrative>
</name>
<description>
<narrative>Locationdescription</narrative>
</description>
<activity-description>
<narrative>Adescriptionthatqualifiestheactivitytakingplaceatthelocation.</narrative>
</activity-description>
<administrativevocabulary="G1"level="1"code="1453782"/>
<pointsrsName="http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4326">
<pos>31.61694465.716944</pos>
</point>
<exactnesscode="1"/>
<location-classcode="2"/>
<feature-designationcode="ADMF"/>
</location>

The location element can be repeated in any iati-activity:

<locationref="AF-KAN">
...
</location>
<locationref="KH-PNH">
...
</location>

Changelog

2.01

The following child elements were removed: coordinates; gazetteer-entry; location-type.

The @percentage attribute was removed.

1.04

Note that major changes were made to the subelements of location in version 1.04.

For more information refer to:

The @ref attribute was introduced to provide a cross reference that a publisher can use to link back to their own internal system.

The @percentage attribute was deemed unworkable and deprecated in 1.04

1.03

Where used, the @percentage attribute is now designated as a decimal value and no longer as a positive Integer

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