RE: SDW BP Glossary Issue 190: Features

Hi Clemens,

Thanks. I looked at the OGC Abstract Spec - so looks like OGC Topic 5 is out of date or has a small typo. As they are all meant to be the same, and the ISO TC211 spreadsheet also has 'phenomena', I guess the plural wins out, unless further comments later. And we point to the later standard as 19101:2002 is withdrawn.

Proposed entry now:

"Feature: Abstraction of real world phenomena. A digital representation of a real world entity or an abstraction of the real world. Examples of features include almost anything that can be placed in time and space, including desks, buildings, cities, trees, forest stands, ecosystems, delivery vehicles, snow removal routes, oil wells,
oil pipelines, oil spill, and so on. The terms feature and object are often used synonymously. [[ISO 19101-1:2014]]"

Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clemens Portele [mailto:portele@interactive-instruments.de]
> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2017 12:24 PM
> To: Little, Chris
> Cc: Linda van den Brink; Tandy, Jeremy; public-sdw-wg@w3.org
> Subject: Re: SDW BP Glossary Issue 190: Features
> 
> Chris, my copies of ISO 19101:2002 and ISO 19101-1:2014 use
> "phenomena".
> 
> Clemens
> 
> > On 4. May 2017, at 12:15, Little, Chris
> <chris.little@metoffice.gov.uk> wrote:
> >
> > 1. Feature
> > ISO TC211 definition: abstraction of real world phenomena.
> > ISO 19101 and OGC OpenGIS® Abstract Specification Topic 5:
> > Abstraction of a real world phenomenon.
> >
> > The main difference is that ISOTC211 has plural 'phenomena' and
> ISO19101 only one phenomenon. As we can define one phenomenon as the
> occurrence of multiple phenomena, there is not really a problem. I
> propose using the ISO 19101/OGC Abstract Spec definition with examples,
> as conceptually the simplest, and people wanting to abstract complex
> phenomena are free to do so.
> >
> >
> >
> > "Feature: Abstraction of a real world phenomenon. A digital
> representation of a real world entity or an abstraction of the real
> world. Examples of features include almost anything that can be placed
> in time and space, including desks, buildings, cities, trees, forest
> stands, ecosystems, delivery vehicles, snow removal routes, oil wells,
> oil pipelines, oil spill, and so on. The terms feature and object are
> often used synonymously. [[ISO 19101]]"
> >
> >
> >
> > Chris Little
> > Co-Chair, OGC Meteorology & Oceanography Domain Working Group
> >
> > IT Fellow - Operational Infrastructures Met Office  FitzRoy Road
> > Exeter  Devon  EX1 3PB  United Kingdom
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> >
> > I am normally at work Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday each week
> >
> >
> >

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