Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Geographic Data Files

Geographic Data Files was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was KEEP

Clearly a non-notable image format. 785 hits on google. [1] Pokemon minutiae is much more important. —RaD Man (talk) 08:49, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

• Keep: DCEdwards1966 09:00, Dec 19, 2004 (UTC)
• Keep: Isn't this an ISO standard or something? Well-known anyway. --fvw* 09:11, 2004 Dec 19 (UTC)
• Keep it. Wyss 18:32, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• keep Yuckfoo 04:50, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. This information is much more relevant than the number of hits on Google. [[User:GRider|GRider\^talk]] 17:28, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Keep it. 12:52, 27 Dec 2004. It is indeed true that the public knowledge on this data format is very small, as the knowledge is kept within big companies. However within the geographic/navigation system world, it is the basic file format. It is indeed an ISO standard, which cannot be said of Pokemon minutiae.

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