Re: BP5: suggestion

Hi Kerry - I agree with your suggestion. Currently Peter Parslow is
updating BP5 so I've alerted him to your suggestion.

(see Pull Request 660 [1] where he's adding his changes)

Jeremy


[1]: https://github.com/w3c/sdw/pull/660

On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 at 21:00 Kerry Taylor <kerry.taylor@anu.edu.au> wrote:

> Best Practice 5: Describe the positional accuracy of spatial data
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> Says under “Why?” ---“ the precision of the specified coordinates, the
> accuracy of positioning on the actual earth's surface using WGS84 will only
> approach about a meter horizontally and may have apparent errors of up to
> 100 meters vertically, because of assumptions about reference systems,
> tectonic plate movements and which definition of the earth's 'surface' is
> used.”
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> That’s fair enough, but does not seem to be an answer to why?. Suggest
> move this down a bit  and for “why “ say something like:
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> “Some spatial data applications , such as aircraft  navigation , [more?]
> require highly accurate data. If the positional accuracy is published
> together with the data, the user can determine whether it is appropriate to
> use for an application. Potentially, this makes existing data more
> re-usable.
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> Kerry
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