- From: Raphaël Troncy <raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr>
- Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 10:59:02 +0100
- To: Ed Parsons <eparsons@google.com>, George Percivall <gpercivall@opengeospatial.org>
- Cc: Jon Blower <j.d.blower@reading.ac.uk>, Frans Knibbe <frans.knibbe@geodan.nl>, SDW WG <public-sdw-wg@w3.org>, Chris Little <chris.little@metoffice.gov.uk>, Jeremy Tandy <jeremy.tandy@gmail.com>
> Yes I think we all agree, Raphaël - it's not the CRS that makes the > French Open Data portal authoritative, however if it's data was also > published using CRS84 it's content might be more accessible to > mainstream web developers ? The authoritative sources (geographical institute, statistical office, cabinet office, etc.) cannot, by law, publish those datasets with WGS84 as the sole CRS. The authoritative CRSs (and MUST used ones) depend on which part of France we are talking about. For the metropolitan territory, this is RGF93. For the over seas islands, it depends again. This is not specific to France neither, many other European countries have similar rules and bylaws. Raphaël -- Raphaël Troncy EURECOM, Campus SophiaTech Data Science Department 450 route des Chappes, 06410 Biot, France. e-mail: raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr & raphael.troncy@gmail.com Tel: +33 (0)4 - 9300 8242 Fax: +33 (0)4 - 9000 8200 Web: http://www.eurecom.fr/~troncy/
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