Re: OpenNMS, openstreetmap, geocoding APIs and SNMP

[Frederik Kriewitz <frederik () kriewitz eu>]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 10:28 AM Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke () gmail com> wrote:
> Method 2 (backwards compatible, possibly an improvement): Treat the 255 character sysLocation field as a rudimentary 
> three column CSV file with pipe delimiters. Put the standard human readable description of the node location in the 
> first column. Populate the second column with the latitude and longitude in WGS84 decimal degree format, such as:
>
> Suite 402 2200 6th Ave, Seattle WA 98121|47.616380|-122.341673
>
> Where both columns have six decimal places of precision
> Column 2 is positive integer if north of the equator
> Column 3 is negative integer if west of Greenwich.
> Optional 4th column: Elevation in metres, MSL

I'm not aware of any formal standards to specify coordinates in
sysLocation but e.g. librenms and Observium support optional GPS
coordinates in brackets:
1100 Congress Ave, Austin, TX 78701 [40.424521, -86.912755]

Another alternative might be to use LOC DNS records