Re: Spatial context

This is a great discussion and I think it is central to the potentially
difficult overlap between the two community perspectives.

I'm sure Josh will chip in but I do think we need to recognise that we need
to include spatial information for which it is not possible to define a
geometry or have linked to as an attribute - This I think is what Josh
means by context, I am writing this email from a location within "Central
London" although there is not a canonical geometry that represents the
shape of central London.

This is an example of what Mike Goodchild calls a Platial Problem !

This must be in scope, does the current wording around spatial information
accommodate it ?

Ed


On Thu Feb 19 2015 at 10:26:55 Andrea Perego <andrea.perego@jrc.ec.europa.eu>
wrote:

> Andreas's mail gives me the opportunity to explain the objection I
> raised during the call [1] about the proposal of adding "spatial
> context" into scope question #1 [2].
>
> My main concern is that the use of "spatial context" in the scoping
> question may be confusing, and probably unnecessary.
>
> In my understanding, spatial context is specified through spatial data
> - i.e., it denotes one of their possible uses. So, "spatial data"
> should be inclusive enough - it would cover spatial data as a whole,
> irrespective of their use.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Andrea
>
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> [1]http://www.w3.org/2015/02/18-sdw-minutes.html
> [2]http://www.w3.org/2015/spatial/wiki/Scope_questions_and_Requirements
>
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 10:10 PM, Andreas Harth <harth@kit.edu> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > the issue I had with the term "spatial context" is that I did not know
> > what the "context" part was supposed to mean.
> >
> > If I understood Josh correctly, he mentioned that a geometry,
> > a place description or a spatial feature should be referenceable
> > in data.
> >
> > If "spatial context" does mean that, I'm fine with the phrasing of
> > the scoping question.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andreas.
> >
>
>
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