Re: person location WRT position

Yes, agreed. Position is a property of location. In the case of a
buildinjg (assuming there is no mass slope movement!), location =
position.

Cheers

Carl

>
> Hi all,
>
> On 2008-09-12, at 0704, Carl Reed wrote:
>
>> A few emails ago I promised to provide clarification on the use of
>> the terms "location" viz "position". Turns out that after reviewing
>> the use of these terms in ISO, the OGC, and the IETF there appears
>> to be consistency!
>>
>> ISO 19112
>>   location: identifiable geographic place
>>
>> ISO 19133
>>   position: data type that describes a point or geometry potentially
>> occupied by an object or person
>
>  From that, I would read that location is something that doesn't move,
> e.g. a town - an identifiable geographic place. An object/person has a
> property called position that identifies its current location.
>
> So, anything that can move has a position, and everything that can't
> move (and this may include buildings, monuments etc) has a location. A
> position of course, can be mapped to a location (e.g. to calculate
> nearby locations).
>
> Cheers Gav
>
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