- From: matthew perry <matthew.perry@oracle.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 08:41:37 -0400
- To: public-sdw-wg@w3.org
- Message-ID: <5555E981.6030309@oracle.com>
With OGC GeoSPARQL, we had the same discussion about a default CRS and
chose to define WGS84 long-lat as the default. The main motivation being
that we wanted to keep things simple for the non-expert user and the
fact that the vast majority of spatial data on the web is encoded with
this CRS. Most of the ogc:wktLiteral data I have seen on the web has
used the default CRS (i.e., there is no explicit CRS given). W3C Basic
Geo vocabulary also assumes WGS84.
Cheers,
Matt
*wtkLiteral definition:*/
Req 10 All RDFS Literals of type geo:wktLiteral shall consist of an
optional URI identifying the coordinate reference system followed by
Simple Features Well Known Text (WKT) describing a geometric value.
Valid geo:wktLiterals are formed by concatenating a valid, absolute URI
as defined in [RFC 2396], one or more spaces (Unicode U+0020 character)
as a separator, and a WKT string as defined in Simple Features [ISO
19125-1].//
//
//For geo:wktLiterals, the beginning URI identifies the spatial
reference system for the geometry. The OGC maintains a set of CRS URIs
under the http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/ namespace. This leading
spatial reference system URI is optional. In the absence of a leading
spatial reference system URI, the following spatial reference system URI
will be assumed: <http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/OGC/1.3/CRS84> This URI
denotes WGS 84 longitude-latitude.//
//
//Req 11 The URI <http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/OGC/1.3/CRS84> shall be
assumed as the spatial reference system for geo:wktLiterals that do not
specify an explicit spatial reference system URI.//
/
On 5/15/2015 8:03 AM, Joshua Lieberman wrote:
> The vivid discussion that Linda references really had only one
> conclusion, that is to tell the truth about the coordinate reference
> system being used and make sure others can find out what it is. There
> will continue to be an issue as long as geodesy insists on {lat, long}
> from history and the Web insists on {long, lat} from computer graphics
> (at least it didn't get fixated on {long, (-lat)}). I don't even think
> that we can assume that CRS descriptions can all be the same when
> dealing with the possibility of non-geocentric, non-inertial, and
> non-orthogonal systems.
>
> Positioning technology is also reaching the accuracy where datums are
> becoming significantly time or even event dependent (e.g. before and
> after fault movement in an earthquake). That said, 90% of current
> spatial data is probably stored in WGS84 {long, lat} with whatever
> geoid was being used by the GPS that day. So we should make that as
> simple yet transparent as possible to convey.
>
> All we have to do is standardize honesty.
>
> Josh
>
> Joshua Lieberman, Ph.D.
> Interoperability Engineering Without Barriers
> jlieberman*at*tumblingwalls*dot*com
> +1 (617) 431-6431
>
> On May 15, 2015, at 07:37, Ashok Malhotra <ashok.malhotra@oracle.com
> <mailto:ashok.malhotra@oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>> Or you could add metadata indicating which coordinate system was used.
>> All the best, Ashok
>>
>> On 5/15/2015 7:27 AM, Peter Baumann wrote:
>>> right, so how can they be sure they mean WGS84? if I copy-past
>>> coordinates from web info about Germany then in the past this used
>>> to be Gauss-Krüger, and several strips = sub-systems. Now let's talk
>>> about height and SI vs imperial units etc - what default could we
>>> agree on?
>>>
>>> With a default, all coordinate info out there on the Web (flat,
>>> height/depth, time, pressure, ...) will often be interpreted
>>> wrongly. IMHO we should rather encourage, for m2m communication,
>>> that we achieve informational completeness.
>>>
>>> my 2 cents,
>>> Peter
>>>
>>>
>>> On 05/15/15 13:21, Linda van den Brink wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> OK, that could be the consensus within OGC, but the GeoJSON spec
>>>> does describe a default CRS and I can understand this very well.
>>>> Non-experts, i.e. people from outside the geospatial domain who are
>>>> using or want to use geospatial data, often have no idea that there
>>>> even **are** multiple coordinate reference systems.
>>>>
>>>> Linda
>>>>
>>>> *Van:*Peter Baumann [mailto:p.baumann@jacobs-university.de]
>>>> *Verzonden:* vrijdag 15 mei 2015 13:01
>>>> *Aan:* Linda van den Brink; Frans Knibbe; SDW WG (public-sdw-wg@w3.org)
>>>> *Onderwerp:* Re: UCR issue: phrasing of CRS requirement(s)
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> FYI, there has been a vivid discussion in OGC on default CRSs on
>>>> the occasion of JSON coming up with such an idea, and OGC very much
>>>> and strongly agreed that this is not a good idea.
>>>>
>>>> In general, a coordinate tuple should have exactly one CRS
>>>> referenced which may include
>>>> - spatial horizontal (such as Lat/Long)
>>>> - time (possibly using different calendars)
>>>> - elevation
>>>> - anything else (eg, atmospheric sciences like to use pressure as a
>>>> proxy for height)
>>>> - finally, planetary CRSs are more and more coming into play as well.
>>>> I sense that this is very much in alignment with the ideas that we
>>>> are discussing here.
>>>>
>>>> OTOH, it is indeed important to have one common mechanism of
>>>> describing CRSs. As mentioned earlier, OGC has such mechanisms in
>>>> place through CRS WKT plus the CRS Name Type Specification (maybe
>>>> quite misleading in its title, it allows to describe CRSs by
>>>> composing them from other ones, such as flatland + time, flatland +
>>>> pressure, flatland + depth, flatland + geological time).
>>>>
>>>> So definitely supporting Linda's observation on referencing vs
>>>> describing.
>>>>
>>>> -Peter
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 05/15/15 09:40, Linda van den Brink wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Frans,
>>>>
>>>> I noticed that a requirement related to this is in the
>>>> spreadsheet but not (yet?) in the UCR document. It is this
>>>> requirement:
>>>>
>>>> “There should be a default CRS that is assumed when nog CRS is
>>>> specified” (s/nog/no)
>>>>
>>>> WGS84/lat lng is the de facto standard CRS for spatial data on
>>>> the web. Both publishing and using spatial data on the web
>>>> should be easy for non-experts, so this requirement of having a
>>>> default CRS makes a lot of sense to me. The most common cases
>>>> become more easy that way. I think this should be added to par.
>>>> 5.6 of the UCR.
>>>>
>>>> In this light (i.e. usability for non-expert users), the best
>>>> practice should have information about how data owners should
>>>> describe, how users can recognize and what tools they can use
>>>> to transform non-WGS84 coordinate systems to the coordinate
>>>> system they need.
>>>>
>>>> A second point I’d like to make is that CRS should be suitable
>>>> also for non-geographical reference systems (for non-Earth
>>>> oriented applications).I think this is covered by 5.14, but the
>>>> text of that paragraph is not completely clear to me.
>>>> )“Standards for spatial data on the web should be independent
>>>> on the reference systems that are used for data.”)
>>>>
>>>> Finally, to answer the question in the issue, as I read it, req
>>>> A is not replaceable by req B. Req A is about **referencing** a
>>>> CRS, while req B is about **describing** a CRS – i.e. the
>>>> description you get about the CRS when you dereference a CRS
>>>> reference.
>>>>
>>>> Linda
>>>>
>>>> *Van:*Frans Knibbe [mailto:frans.knibbe@geodan.nl]
>>>> *Verzonden:* woensdag 13 mei 2015 14:20
>>>> *Aan:* SDW WG Public List
>>>> *Onderwerp:* UCR issue: phrasing of CRS requirement(s)
>>>>
>>>> Hello all,
>>>>
>>>> I have raised an issue for the UCR document: ISSUE-10
>>>> <http://www.w3.org/2015/spatial/track/issues/10>.
>>>>
>>>> All help in getting this issue resolved is very welcome.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Frans
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
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>>> - Professor of Computer Science, Jacobs University Bremen
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>>>
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>>
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