Re: Point vs Range/Area Selectors?

Any sort of document that has geography, either linear or area.  Which, as
far as I can tell, is any sort of document :)
I think that the SvgSelector or multiple SvgSelectors will handle arbitrary
polygons, polylines and so forth.

It seems that the consensus, at least to date, is that point based
selectors are important, and that we don't need to do anything special for
them other than describe how they are modeled using range/area selectors.

R


On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Bob Morris <morris.bob@gmail.com> wrote:

> Are we talking only about text-based documents here, or in general
> resources that have some kind of "geography"? For example, modern
> digital representation of maps support-and need- selectors that are
> unions of polygons, and there are widely used standards for their
> specification. See http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/is.
> JPEG2000 can encode Regions of Interest (ROIs) of arbitrary polygons
> and ellipses.   In general many image serializations and their
> application support complex ROIs.  I suppose there is little interest
> in annotations of medical images that could not support only
> rectangular selectors.
>
> Bob Morris
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Robert Sanderson <azaroth42@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > Recently in a matrix of functionalities provided by different annotation
> > systems, I saw an entry:
> > * Point Based Selection
> >
> > This was distinguished as a single point in an image (eg x,y but 0 w and
> h)
> > or a single position in a text stream (eg a selector with an offset, but
> 0
> > length)
> >
> > Is it important in the Open Annotation model to have Point selectors, or
> > should we have a recommendation in the specification to use the
> range/area
> > selectors with 0 height/width/length?
> >
> > Thanks for your thoughts on this!
> >
> > Rob
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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