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Subject: Re: [emergency] Groups - CRSRegistry Document by Galdos.doc uploaded
Carl: apologize for just now getting back to this, but I needed to take some time to let some of the GIS-related comments and discussions that have been floating around to settle into my head. And while I admit, as I have done many times before, I am not GIS expert, I *think* I am able to understand the purpose and idea behind this document. As such, I had a question. In terms of how the Units of Measures are created, which if I understand correctly are used to create a given CRS, I am curious as to why these units (meter, degrees, etc.) where not defined as derived data types? It would seem that by having a UOM dictionary, which would be essentially a given CRS, that was nothing more than a list of these data types, one could simply reference, through Namespaces, that UOM dictionary in instance documents to therefore accomplish the same thing - rather than defining your own referencing scheme (srsName, codeSpace, etc.). Or, if the author of a given XML dialect, such as our authoring of CAP, wanted to explicitly specify which CRS' that were allowed, we would only need to import the applicable UOM dictionary(ies) to do that. Just wondering if I was misunderstanding something, as it seemed to me the same thing could be accomplished by simply using some of the features of XML Schema. Allen On Apr 10, 2004, at 4:42 PM, creed@opengis.org wrote: > The EM TC requested more information about how the OpenGIS Consortium > specifies coordinate reference systems (CRS). This request was in > relationship to CAP. This document provides basic information about > the prototype OGC CRS registry and how an application or encoding can > reference this registry.
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