Re: UCR issue: phrasing of CRS requirement(s)

In most cases I don't think they actually do mean WGS84 as in
the ellipsoid and datum.

I would guess it is usually shorthand for the the full spatial reference
system defined by EPSG4326
<http://www.epsg-registry.org/export.htm?wkt=urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326> or
more likely on the web EPSG:3857
<http://www.epsg-registry.org/export.htm?wkt=urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::3857>

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On 16 May 2015 at 04:02, Krzysztof Janowicz <janowicz@ucsb.edu> wrote:

>  right, so how can they be sure they mean WGS84?
>
>
> Here is a funny example how this can go wrong and went wrong in the past:
> http://stko.geog.ucsb.edu/location_linked_data (See the Copernicus crater)
>
> Best,
> Krzysztof
>
>
>
>
> On 05/15/2015 04:27 AM, Peter Baumann wrote:
>
> right, so how can they be sure they mean WGS84? if I copy-past coordinates
> from web info about Germany then in the past this used to be Gauss-Krüger,
> and several strips = sub-systems. Now let's talk about height and SI vs
> imperial units etc - what default could we agree on?
>
> With a default, all coordinate info out there on the Web (flat,
> height/depth, time, pressure, ...) will often be interpreted wrongly. IMHO
> we should rather encourage, for m2m communication, that we achieve
> informational completeness.
>
> my 2 cents,
> Peter
>
>
> On 05/15/15 13:21, Linda van den Brink wrote:
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>  Hi all,
>
>
>
> OK, that could be the consensus within OGC, but the GeoJSON spec does
> describe a default CRS and I can understand this very well. Non-experts,
> i.e. people from outside the geospatial domain who are using or want to use
> geospatial data, often have no idea that there even **are** multiple
> coordinate reference systems.
>
>
>
> Linda
>
>
>
> *Van:* Peter Baumann [mailto:p.baumann@jacobs-university.de
> <p.baumann@jacobs-university.de>]
> *Verzonden:* vrijdag 15 mei 2015 13:01
> *Aan:* Linda van den Brink; Frans Knibbe; SDW WG (public-sdw-wg@w3.org)
> *Onderwerp:* Re: UCR issue: phrasing of CRS requirement(s)
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> FYI, there has been a vivid discussion in OGC on default CRSs on the
> occasion of JSON coming up with such an idea, and OGC very much and
> strongly agreed that this is not a good idea.
>
> In general, a coordinate tuple should have exactly one CRS referenced
> which may include
> - spatial horizontal (such as Lat/Long)
> - time (possibly using different calendars)
> - elevation
> - anything else (eg, atmospheric sciences like to use pressure as a proxy
> for height)
> - finally, planetary CRSs are more and more coming into play as well.
> I sense that this is very much in alignment with the ideas that we are
> discussing here.
>
> OTOH, it is indeed important to have one common mechanism of describing
> CRSs. As mentioned earlier, OGC has such mechanisms in place through CRS
> WKT plus the CRS Name Type Specification (maybe quite misleading in its
> title, it allows to describe CRSs by composing them from other ones, such
> as flatland + time, flatland + pressure, flatland + depth, flatland +
> geological time).
>
> So definitely supporting Linda's observation on referencing vs describing.
>
> -Peter
>
>
>  On 05/15/15 09:40, Linda van den Brink wrote:
>
> Hi Frans,
>
>
>
> I noticed that a requirement related to this is in the spreadsheet but not
> (yet?) in the UCR document. It is this requirement:
>
>
>
> “There should be a default CRS that is assumed when nog CRS is specified”
> (s/nog/no)
>
>
>
> WGS84/lat lng is the de facto standard CRS for spatial data on the web.
> Both publishing and using spatial data on the web should be easy for
> non-experts, so this requirement of having a default CRS makes a lot of
> sense to me. The most common cases become more easy that way. I think this
> should be added to par. 5.6 of the UCR.
>
>
>
> In this light (i.e. usability for non-expert users), the best practice
> should have information about how data owners should describe, how users
> can recognize and what tools they can use to transform non-WGS84 coordinate
> systems to the coordinate system they need.
>
>
>
> A second point I’d like to make is that CRS should be suitable also for
> non-geographical reference systems (for non-Earth oriented applications).I
> think this is covered by 5.14, but the text of that paragraph is not
> completely clear to me. )“Standards for spatial data on the web should be
> independent on the reference systems that are used for data.”)
>
>
>
> Finally, to answer the question in the issue, as I read it, req A is not
> replaceable by req B. Req A is about **referencing** a CRS, while req B
> is about **describing** a CRS – i.e. the description you get about the
> CRS when you dereference  a CRS reference.
>
>
>
> Linda
>
>
>
> *Van:* Frans Knibbe [mailto:frans.knibbe@geodan.nl
> <frans.knibbe@geodan.nl>]
> *Verzonden:* woensdag 13 mei 2015 14:20
> *Aan:* SDW WG Public List
> *Onderwerp:* UCR issue: phrasing of CRS requirement(s)
>
>
>
> Hello all,
>
>
>
> I have raised an issue for the UCR document: ISSUE-10
> <http://www.w3.org/2015/spatial/track/issues/10>.
>
> All help in getting this issue resolved is very welcome.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Frans
>
>
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