topic Recommendation for storing geoLocation in Developers Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/recommendation-for-storing-geolocation/m-p/356379#M2291 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I'm working on a construction web app that could benefit from storing geolocation information.&nbsp; When someone keys in a new construction site, they typically have an address or parcel that they enter.&nbsp; We have a couple of clients who use ESRI and have granted us access to their web service in order to pull layer info based on address/parcel.&nbsp; I've been thinking though that it may be useful to also store the geolocation so that we can graphically display a map with pins indicating project locations.&nbsp; We would probably use Google maps for this portion since we don't have a license to use ESRI ourselves.&nbsp; Being new to GIS im a bit confused on how to best store this geolocation in the database in order to be as flexible as possible.&nbsp; Should i store a lat/lon or a x,y coordinate with a spacial reference?&nbsp; Is any spacial reference more globally adopted than another or does that even matter?&nbsp; My goal is to store the most readily usable format for use in multiple systems.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 26 Oct 2015 17:01:53 GMT JaceColeman1 2015-10-26T17:01:53Z Recommendation for storing geoLocation https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/recommendation-for-storing-geolocation/m-p/356379#M2291 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I'm working on a construction web app that could benefit from storing geolocation information.&nbsp; When someone keys in a new construction site, they typically have an address or parcel that they enter.&nbsp; We have a couple of clients who use ESRI and have granted us access to their web service in order to pull layer info based on address/parcel.&nbsp; I've been thinking though that it may be useful to also store the geolocation so that we can graphically display a map with pins indicating project locations.&nbsp; We would probably use Google maps for this portion since we don't have a license to use ESRI ourselves.&nbsp; Being new to GIS im a bit confused on how to best store this geolocation in the database in order to be as flexible as possible.&nbsp; Should i store a lat/lon or a x,y coordinate with a spacial reference?&nbsp; Is any spacial reference more globally adopted than another or does that even matter?&nbsp; My goal is to store the most readily usable format for use in multiple systems.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 26 Oct 2015 17:01:53 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/developers-questions/recommendation-for-storing-geolocation/m-p/356379#M2291 JaceColeman1 2015-10-26T17:01:53Z