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I agree with you, Andrew!We should avoid "mental barriers" like Raster Vs Vector, as well as Coverage Vs Feature (the new version of the same contraposition).
In an interoperable Geospatial Information framework, Observation&Measurement, Feature and Coverage are different ways to see the same stuff (i.e. they are views). Different use cases may need to present users with a Feature view and access and process data using a Coverage view, or vice versa.
--Stefano
touche!Too many people forget the case of a feature with (possibly multiple) coverage-valued properties. When scientific people complain that this ISO/OGC stuff "is just GIS" I robustly respond that actually the concepts are as revolutionary to traditional GIS as to us scientific users. Let's please leave behind these old notions of "raster" vs "vector", and realise that actually we can model the world in whatever complex way is necessary.
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