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Subject: Issue #14: Potential Errata Clarification
Jeff - thanx for the input, as I see better what you mean (while I still claim to be no geo expert). Essentially it boils down to correcting the last sentence in Section 3.3.1 from currently saying: "Coordinates in the Southern and Western hemispheres are signed negative with a leading dash." To instead say... "Latitudes in the southern hemisphere and Longitudes in the western hemisphere are signed negative with a leading dash." As such, I am changing my own opinion to include this as errata and support your proposed language. We obviously need more than myself to agree, so if there is any other input/guidance (Carl???) from the group then please reply. If what Jeff proposes more accurately reflects our intension, then we should change it. Allen On Jul 13, 2004, at 2:27 PM, Jeff Kyser wrote: > On Tuesday, July 13, 2004, at 12:05 PM, R. Allen Wyke wrote: >> >> 2. CAP Errata: Elysa sent email >> (http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/emergency/200407/msg00002.html) >> outlining the details for Issues #13 - #18. Discussed them in meeting >> as follows: >> >> #14: Invalid issue - there can be negatives. > > I'm guessing that Bob Wyman's original post was not > understood. > > Perhaps if the sentence in question read: > > Latitudes in the southern hemisphere and > Longitudes in the western hemisphere are > signed negative with a leading dash. > > he would have been happy, and the sentence > would be correct. > > As it now reads, it is confusing. 'Coordinates' is > really another way of saying 'Coordinate Pairs'. > Negative 'Coordinate Pairs' does not make sense. > And if it is not assumed to be 'Coordinate Pairs', > then it is still incorrect or at least ambiguous as written, > since there are longitudes in the southern hemisphere that > are positive and there are latitudes in the western > hemisphere that are positive. > > regards, > > -jeff
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