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Subject: Re: [emergency] Groups - CAP 1.1 Subcommittee Draft (CAP_1.1-draft_1-4-05) uploaded
Actually, I sent the same language to Allen Wyke
who posted it to this list July 14, 2004 :-)
-jeff
On Jan 18, 2005, at 6:39 AM, Art Botterell wrote:
> At last, a constructive suggestion! Personally I'd have no problem
> with that suggested language, although my opinion isn't what matters.
> I think this issue was referred back to the GIS subcommittee last
> week, so I'm forwarding this to them.
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Art
>
> At 5:44 AM -0600 1/18/05, Jeff Kyser wrote:
>> Still seems to me that the following is clearer
>> and more precise (Section 3.3.1):
>>
>> Latitudes in the Southern Hemisphere and longitudes in the
>> Western Hemisphere are signed negative with a leading dash.
>>
>> (as opposed to 'Coordinates in the Southern and Western Hemispheres
>> ...')
>>
>> A similar sentence has been added to Section 1.5, it would benefit
>> from
>> the same language.
>>
>> -jeff
>>
>>
>> On Jan 9, 2005, at 10:14 PM, Art Botterell wrote:
>>
>>> Bob -
>>>
>>> Your concern was discussed at some length by both the GIS and
>>> Messaging Subcommittees. During the 11/30 call the Messaging
>>> Subcommittee took up Issue 14 and voted to stick with this
>>> formulation, which is in line with GIS industry and ISO usage.
>>>
>>> Of course you're welcome to offer an amendment to the full TC for
>>> discussion on our next call, hopefully with some specific alternate
>>> language. After that it'll be up to the Committee.
>>>
>>> - Art
>>>
>>>
>>> At 10:35 PM -0500 1/9/05, Bob Wyman wrote:
>>>> Art Botterell wrote:
>>>>> The CAP 1.1 spec as approved by the Messaging Subcommittee.
>>>>> Please
>>>>> review for approval to move it to public comment ASAP.
>>>> In the issues list for the CAP specification, it is stated that
>>>> issue 14 would be addressed in 1.1... Yet, the offending and
>>>> non-sensical
>>>> sentence "Coordinates in the Southern and Western hemispheres are
>>>> signed
>>>> negative with a leading dash." remains in the specification. As I
>>>> have been
>>>> saying, since before 1.0 was approved by this working group,
>>>> "coordinates"
>>>> can't be signed -- only the components of a coordinate can be
>>>> signed.
>>>> I suggest that an effort should be made to incorporate committed
>>>> changes to the specification before it is released for public
>>>> comment.
>>>>
>>>> bob wyman
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>