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Fwd: Common Approach to Coordinates

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Hello,

There are a couple initiatives here at the OGC technical committee meetings
that are relevant to GALEON.  One is an effort to develop a common approach
to coordinates within the standards world.  Some of the issues have come up
in the GALEON context so I thought it was important to let you know about
them at an early stage.  A note below from Ron Lake outlines the issues
raised at a formative meeting.

-- Ben


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ron Lake <rlake@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Apr 18, 2007 12:40 PM
Subject: Common Approach to Coordinates
To: ben@xxxxxxxx

Hi Ben:

The Common Approach to Coordinates Ad Hoc met, and it was agreed to form a
WG to develop a more mathematical foundation for coordinates that deals
with:

1.    Linear Referencing

2.    Conventional Geodesy

3.    Moving Bodies (orientation, position etc.)

4.    Non-spatial quantities (temperature, pressure etc.).

5.    3DIM CAD requirements

We will deal only with coordinates and coordinate reference systems. The
output has not been defined - but it could be a new spec or a revision of
19111 or just an OGC thing to start with.  I hope you will participate from
the coverage standpoints and the needs of Threads/Galeon.

I also hope you will attend GeoWeb 2007 (http://www.geoweb.org)

Ron
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