- From: Alexander Mayrhofer <alexander.mayrhofer@nic.at>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:20:32 +0200
- To: <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk>, <public-poiwg@w3c.org>
Andy, Honestly - you were the only person ever mentioning the Moon/Mars cases - but everybody has a hobby ;-) Alex ----- Originalnachricht ----- Von: public-poiwg-request@w3.org <public-poiwg-request@w3.org> An: public-poiwg@w3c.org <public-poiwg@w3c.org> Gesendet: Tue Jun 28 18:41:14 2011 Betreff: Re: "geo:" URIs On 28 June 2011 13:32, Jens de Smit <jens@layar.com> wrote: >> What about non-WGS84 CRSs, so that the schema is a) future-proof and >> b) capable of expressing PoIs on other bodies, such as the Moon or >> Mars? > > Both GML and RFC5870 allow for specifying a different CRS. I don't > know if there is an interstellar CRS yet, but the great thing is that > we do not have to come up with it because we can use any CRS we want. Thanks, Jens. Yes, it is a great thing, which is why I asked for it to be included in RFC5870 ;-) It's important that we can refer unambiguously to, say, the locations of features on The Moon, or the exploratory journeys of Mars landers. I'm not familiar with GML, hence the question; it's good to know that it allows for other CRSs. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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