Hi,

I'm working on understanding how to properly express nominal and precise 
locations for timeSeriesProfile data from an oceanographic mooring.  Here is 
the text from section 9.5 at 
http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/cf-conventions/1.6/cf-conventions.html#coordinates-metadata:

CF Discrete Geometries provides a mechanism to encode both the nominal and the 
precise positions, while retaining the semantics of the idealized feature type. 
Only the set of coordinates which are regarded as the nominal (default or 
preferred) positions should be indicated by the attribute axis, which should be 
assigned string values to indicate the orientations of the axes (X, Y, Z, or 
T).  See example A9.2.3.2.  Auxiliary coordinate variables containing the 
nominal and the precise positions should be listed in the relevant coordinates 
attributes of data variables. In orthogonal representations the nominal 
positions could be  coordinate variables, which do not need to be listed in the 
coordinates attribute, rather than auxiliary coordinate variables.

I can't find example "A9.2.3.2", but did find example H.5 which looks to be the 
correct one.  Is this just a simple typo in the above text?

-Mike

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Mike McCann
Software Engineer
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
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Moss Landing, CA 95039-9644
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