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Subject: Re: [emergency] RE: OGC UoM Best Practices guidance
Gary and Rex -
Fully understand. The OGC UoM and related Observations and Measurements work
have been designed to insure that ALL metadata for a given measurement (say
from a sensor) can be accurately captured, encoded, and communicated. The
OGC members have determined that for our standards work related to sensors
etc that we must insure that the accuracy of measurement semantics,
measurement precision, and measurement accuracy and so forth must be
accommodated. This does not mean that an application needs to use all of the
capabilities - just that that they must be there if needed. Much of this
decision has to do with the level of ambiguity that an application can live
with. This is why UoM is important.
Anyway, attached is the latest OGC Observations and Measurement document.
The members approved release of this Discussion Paper last month. Has not
yet been posted to the OGC web site but will be soon.
There are numerous examples showing how UoM can be expressed as part of a
larger sensor observation encoding payload. Also shows use of GML, O&M and
UoM used in concert.
Not sure if this will make Gary's life any easier :-)
Cheers
Carl