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

More on the current plans for Australia’s next Datum:

http://www.icsm.gov.au/gda2020/gmiwg.html


Bruce


On 3/08/2016, 20:19, "Andrea Perego" <andrea.perego@jrc.ec.europa.eu>
wrote:

>Just adding the relevant link to the mailing list archive:
>
>https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sdw-wg/2015Jun/0022.html

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>Andrea
>
>On 03/08/2016 3:38, Bruce Bannerman wrote:
>> ​
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>> ​You may recall the attached thread from June last year.
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>> 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,
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>>
>>
>> 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
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>> *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:
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>> Australia plans new co-ordinates to fix sat-nav gap [1]
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>> 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

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Received on Thursday, 4 August 2016 23:55:23 UTC