Fw: Australia plans new co-ordinates to fix sat-nav gap [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

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?You may recall the attached thread from June last year.


Bruce


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From: Little, Chris <chris.little@metoffice.gov.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, 2 August 2016 11:50 PM
To: Jeremy Tandy; public-sdw-wg@w3.org
Subject: RE: Australia plans new co-ordinates to fix sat-nav gap

Hi Jeremy and Colleagues,

I saw this too. It also struck me that the 2020 timescale is probably tied to the revision of ISO 19111 CRS standard, which is meant to address dynamic datums, which could help tackle the simple approach of WGS 84 and expectations of higher precision.

Chris

From: Jeremy Tandy [mailto:jeremy.tandy@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2016 8:38 AM
To: public-sdw-wg@w3.org
Subject: Australia plans new co-ordinates to fix sat-nav gap

Hi all. Was just reading through the news this morning when I spotted this article:

Australia plans new co-ordinates to fix sat-nav gap [1]

Probably old news to many of you, but perhaps containing some interesting points about CRS for the BP document- especially noting "driverless cars" as the main reason; surely this counts as a high-precision spatial application!

Jeremy

[1]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36912700