Re: Spatial context

Thanks, Ed.

Just to repeat my indirect reply [1] to your proposal:

+1 to using "spatial information".

Cheers,

Andrea

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[1]https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdw-wg/2015Feb/0052.html


On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Ed Parsons <eparsons@google.com> wrote:
> 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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>> Andrea Perego, Ph.D.
>> Scientific / Technical Project Officer
>> European Commission DG JRC
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>



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Andrea Perego, Ph.D.
Scientific / Technical Project Officer
European Commission DG JRC
Institute for Environment & Sustainability
Unit H06 - Digital Earth & Reference Data
Via E. Fermi, 2749 - TP 262
21027 Ispra VA, Italy

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