- From: Raj Singh <rsingh@opengeospatial.org>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 20:12:14 -0400
- To: Thomas Wrobel <darkflame@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-poiwg@w3.org
comments inline... --- Raj On Jun 6, at 1:59 PM, Thomas Wrobel wrote: > Really not sure about merely having space-separate lat/long/alt co-ordinates. > This means we arnt specifying a name field for them - how well does > this work with none xml formatting like JSON? (co-ordinates will need > to be passed into separate, likely double, variables for use after > all). Specifying lat/long/alt in attributes adds clarity if you have a single point, but when you start dealing with lines and polygons and you have -- as is often the case with natural features like shorelines -- thousands of points along the line, that clarity bloats the message. That's why the practice has evolved in the geospatial community to go with a format that's as terse as possible when it comes to the coordinates. > Also, does the point itself need an ID ? (the POI itself is required > to have a unique one, but does each point it might use within it > also?) No the point doesn't need an ID. Most elements in GML can have an ID, and I copied that from an example where it made more sense for <Point> to have an ID. Please ignore that part of the verbose example.
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