[Esip-documentation] Geospatial Bounds

Aleksandar Jelenak via Esip-documentation esip-documentation at lists.esipfed.org
Wed Oct 1 12:59:53 EDT 2014


Dear all,

Just in time for today’s meeting, below is the latest version of the
geospatial_bounds definition:

Describes geospatial extent using geometric objects (2D or 3D) defined in
the Well-Known Text (WKT) format. geospatial_bounds points are always
space-separated latitude (decimal degrees_north), longitude (decimal
degrees_east), and, for 3D objects, altitude (meters, up) values of the
WGS-84 coordinate reference system. Specifically WGS-84 (EPSG:4326) for 2D
objects and WGS-84 (EPSG:4979) for 3D objects. Like the
geospatial_lon/lat_min/max attributes, these are typically approximate
values. Note that longitude values are not restricted to the [-180, 180]
range only. Example: "POLYGON ((40.26 -111.29, 41.26 -111.29, 41.26
-110.29, 40.26 -110.29, 40.26 -111.29))".



I hope the text now satisfies all the raised issues.

	-Aleksandar



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