[DDI-ADG] Ilon's try at clarifying the Geography spreadsheet

[Wendy Thomas]

Bounding polygon-polygon to describe the geogrpahic area...

Structure of this element is unchanged from the Version 2.0 structure of
boundPoly element

The Bounding Box concept is exclusively linked to the Geographic Cover in
FGDC and other geographic schema. It is a specialized form of Polygon and
a geographic cover can have both a Bounding Box and a Bounding Polygon
which describes it more discretely.  Type from 2.0 structure.

How about: The Bounding Box is a specific form of a geographic polygon
that describes the full extent of the geographic cover using a four-sided
box constructed of 2 longitudes and 2 latitudes. It is used by systems
that search for geography by coordinates and is compatible with the
description and structure found in FGDC and other geographic metadata
structures. The BoundingBox structure is unchanged from that found in
Version 2.0 elemeent geoBndBox.



On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Ilona Einowski wrote:

> OK Gang,
>
> This is the best I could do...I'm not sure if it helps or muddies the waters
> even more.
>
> I made the text BOLD for every cell I edited.
>
> I put RED when I did not understand what it said and I needed to pose a
> question to our group...Jay??? Wendy??? jump in and clarify?????
>
> I UNDERLINED phrases I added to help clarify the references.
>
> At this point I have just about lost my ability to verbalize so I better
> stop and have lunch and a walk....
>
> Ilona
>
>
> Ilona Einowski
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> UC Data Archive & Technical Assistance
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>
>
>

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