[Esip-documentation] Geospatial Bounds

[John Graybeal via Esip-documentation]

I also like having something along these lines. Following on Ted's point, can we have an example, or at least guidance, that includes the specification of the vertical datum?  That was what I found missing in my search of WKT specs/examples a while back. (And i'm sure it's easy. ;->)

John

On Sep 22, 2014, at 15:25, Ted Habermann via Esip-documentation <esip-documentation at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:

> Dave et al.,
> 
> I think this is an interesting step forward... The definition should say something about the CRS as the order of the coordinates in the WKT actually depends on the CRS (I think). There is a great discussion of this on the ESIP wiki (of all places) by Roger Lott: http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/CRS_Specification. Also, if the definition is going to include an example, lets use numbers that are unambiguously longitude (i.e. > 90). Also may want to mention the overlap between the first and last points... and a url to more complete documentation of WKT...
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> Ted
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> On Sep 22, 2014, at 4:16 PM, David Neufeld - NOAA Affiliate via Esip-documentation <esip-documentation at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:
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>> Hi All,
>> 
>> Based on some off list discussion, here is a new proposed definition for
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>> geospatial_bounds:  
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>> Describes geospatial extent using geometric objects (2D or 3D) defined by the Well-Known Text (WKT) format.  geospatial_bounds values are always longitude (decimal degrees_east), latitude (decimal degrees_north), and optionally altitude (meters, up).  Like the  geospatial_lon/lat_min/max attributes, these may be approximate values.  Example: POLYGON ((-71.29 40.26, -70.79 41.26, -70.29 41.26, -70.79 40.26, -71.29 40.26))
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>> -Dave
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