RE: My BP Comment (note: singular!)

On Thursday, January 14, 2016 9:36 AM, Jeremy Tandy  wrote:

> Hi- I've added ISSUE 212 to the Glossary section indicating the need to do some
> improvements - citing Coverage as particularly unclear and noting sources of
> definitions (thanks Simon). Jeremy

Thanks Jeremy.

Best,

Lars

> 
> On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 at 17:15 Svensson, Lars <L.Svensson@dnb.de> wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 12, 2016 10:43 PM, Simon.Cox@csiro.au wrote:
> 
> > I had a go at this in the recent revision of ISO 19109. Here's clause 7.2.2. The
> > first paragraph in particular might help:
> >
> > 7.2.2 Coverages
> >
> > Many aspects of the real-world may be represented as features whose
> > properties are single-valued and static. These conventional features provide a
> > model of the world in terms of discrete objects located in it. However, in
> some
> > applications it is more useful to use a model focussing on the variation of
> > property
> > values in space and time, formalized as coverages. Users of geographic
> > information may utilize both viewpoints. While coverages are themselves
> > strictly features as well, it is common to contrast coverages and non-
> coverage
> > features when discussing the functionality provided by each viewpoint. In the
> > following discussion the name ‘feature’ refers to non-coverage features. [...]
> 
> Thanks, Simon, yes that helps at least me. I'd be curious what an average web
> developer would say, though...
> 
> Best,
> 
> Lars

Received on Thursday, 14 January 2016 09:23:59 UTC