Re: Fw: Australia plans new co-ordinates to fix sat-nav gap [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Just adding the relevant link to the mailing list archive:

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdw-wg/2015Jun/0022.html

Andrea

On 03/08/2016 3:38, Bruce Bannerman wrote:
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> ​You may recall the attached thread from June last year.
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> Bruce
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> *From:* Little, Chris <chris.little@metoffice.gov.uk>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 2 August 2016 11:50 PM
> *To:* Jeremy Tandy; public-sdw-wg@w3.org
> *Subject:* RE: Australia plans new co-ordinates to fix sat-nav gap
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> Hi Jeremy and Colleagues,
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> I saw this too. It also struck me that the 2020 timescale is probably
> tied to the revision of ISO 19111 CRS standard, which is meant to
> address dynamic datums, which could help tackle the simple approach of
> WGS 84 and expectations of higher precision.
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> Chris
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> *From:*Jeremy Tandy [mailto:jeremy.tandy@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Saturday, July 30, 2016 8:38 AM
> *To:* public-sdw-wg@w3.org
> *Subject:* Australia plans new co-ordinates to fix sat-nav gap
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> Hi all. Was just reading through the news this morning when I spotted
> this article:
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> Australia plans new co-ordinates to fix sat-nav gap [1]
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> Probably old news to many of you, but perhaps containing some
> interesting points about CRS for the BP document- especially noting
> "driverless cars" as the main reason; surely this counts as a
> high-precision spatial application!
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> Jeremy
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> [1]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36912700
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Received on Wednesday, 3 August 2016 10:22:25 UTC