[Esip-documentation] ACDD comments

[David Neufeld - NOAA Affiliate via Esip-documentation]

Hi All,

Below is a link to the OGC Simple Features Specification which includes how
to represent features as Well Known Text.  You will find representations
that include z values, units and coordinate systems.

http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=25355

hth,
Dave

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 11:59 AM, John Graybeal via Esip-documentation <
esip-documentation at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:

> As the person most involved in several of these, I guess I will respond as
> best I can.
>
> On Sep 18, 2014, at 09:26, Bob Simons - NOAA Federal <bob.simons at noaa.gov>
> wrote:
>
> * For geospatial_bounds, WKT doesn't specify units. So it is unclear if
> the WKT values represent latitude and longitude, or x and y from some
> projection (which opens up a huge can of worms). Please either require the
> use of latitude and longitude (please) or make some provision for
> specifying units (good luck with that).
>
>
> OK, I'm guessing we'll have to look into this. Thanks for pointing it out.
> WKT is not specified well in Z either, if I recall correctly.
>
>
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