===== Add Latitude and Longitude to Location Table  =====
===Proposals are now housed on github===
[[https://github.com/OHDSI/CommonDataModel/issues/91|link to github issue]]


  * Proposal Owner: Gowtham Rao 
  * Use cases: For standardized geospatial visualization and analysis 
  * Related proposals: http://www.ohdsi.org/web/wiki/doku.php?id=documentation:next_cdm:country
  * Discussion: http://forums.ohdsi.org/t/proposal-standardized-address-latitude-and-longitude-location-table/2405
  * Background: For standardized geospatial visualization and analysis, addresses need to be, at the minimum be geocoded into latitude and longitude. This allows it to put as a point on a map. This proposal is to add two fields, latitude and longitude to the location table.
  * Backward compatible: Yes
  * Impact: GIS workgroup 



^Field^Required^Type^Description^
|location_id|Yes|integer|A unique identifier for each geographic location.|
|address_1|No|varchar(50)|The address field 1, typically used for the street address, as it appears in the source data.|
|address_2|No|varchar(50)|The address field 2, typically used for additional detail such as buildings, suites, floors, as it appears in the source data.|
|city |No|varchar(50)|The city field as it appears in the source data.|
|state|No|varchar(2)|The state field as it appears in the source data.|
|zip|No|varchar(9)|The zip or postal code as it appears in the source data|
|county|No|varchar(20)|The county as it appears in the source data|
|location_source_value|No|varchar(50)|The verbatim information that is used to uniquely identify the location as it appears in the source data.|
|latitude|No|float|Geocoded latitude|
|longitude|No|float|Geocoded longitude|