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Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
>... The geographic descriptors
>may be using OGC standards such as the Geographic Markup
>Language (GML). The location standard common in America
>is WS84, but in Australia it is GDA94. If a third standard
>that includes both requirements chooses the American common
>descriptors over the Australian, and chooses to use homebrew
>descriptors for geographic elements over say, GML, then
>at this point, a global vendor has no choice but to
>gut the standard with variants. One prefers to do this
>using an acceptable version indicator or even by extension,
>but it will be done regardless of the intent of the
>committees.
>
I don't agree that the smaller countries (i.e. the US or Europe) should
have to
yield to the larger country (i.e. Australia, including our Antarctic
Territories.)
For a start, I can imagine that our standard unit of distance (the "hop") ,
area (the "square hop"), and longtitude and latitude (the "hopalong" and
"hopalot")
would be unintuitive for people from the kangaroo-poor nations, however
reasonable they may seem to us.
With the customary marsupial blandishments,
Skippy
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