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Maybe a little late, but I converted this PR to a draft as we work out its details.

Not very good at GitHub, so can someone else take this up please? I've attached - a revision of 03-metadata.xml, which updates the metadata chapter of the guidelines re: sourceDesc/p...

Perhaps this should be part of #1413 ?

Latitude and longitude values are encoded in the content of ``. `` is based on https://tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-geo.html. Sorry for the error. The name "geog" is more consistent with MEI elements already...

Re: validation, I'm sure the variability in the expression of coordinates is what led the TEI folks to go with plain text. Creating a RegEx that validates such variability is...

@ahankinson , Your markup ```xml Benjamin Britten is buried in St. Peter and St. Paul Churchyard, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England. ``` provides the *names of locations*, not geographic coordinates. Currently, MEI...

By the way, adding `` is a response to the need for geographic coordinates when transcoding Humdrum metadata to MEI.

The logic of your proposal is sound; however, it doesn't account for the markup of locations without a name. Granted, this shouldn't happen very much in our field, but I...

In my mind MEI's geographic elements (existing or proposed) are analogous with TEI's in the following ways -- ``` geogLoc ~= TEI's geo geogName ~= TEI's placeName location ~= TEI's...

> So `` becomes a method of marking up places inline in text, while `` is a method of capturing geographic location data. Precisely. However, both of these elements can...