Hi Martin, I haven't kept myself up-to-date with all the great changes happening in the SIS world, but yes, you're right, the radius in LatLonPointRadius is the radius from any point on the Earth's surface. It was intended to represent an approximate point-radius on the surface of the Earth.
I agree that it's a good idea to refractor it into the Geometry package. Best, Nga On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (3980) < [email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Martin. Nga, can you respond to this? > > Cheers, > Chris > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Desruisseaux <[email protected]> > Organization: Geomatys > Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 2:55 PM > To: Apache SIS <[email protected]> > Subject: Undeprecated LatLonRadius class > > >Hello all > > > >I just realized that I wrongly interpreted the 'radius' field in > >LatLonRadius class [1] as the distance from Earth's center (i.e. I > >though that it was a geocentric coordinate), while the author's intend > >was (if I'm not wrong again) the radius on Earth surface around a > >center. Consequently I reverted that class to a state closer to its > >original state before I (wrongly) made it a GeneralDirectPosition > >subclass, and undeprecated it. > > > >So this class is not a geocentric coordinate, sorry for my confusion. > >But if I'm not wrong, it is a geometry, is that right? If so, it may be > >good to refactor it as a "real" geometry object in a future SIS version. > >I added a comment using red font in [1] saying that. Is that okay? > > > > Martin > > > > > >[1] > > > https://builds.apache.org/job/sis-jdk7/site/apidocs/org/apache/sis/core/La > >tLonPointRadius.html > > > >
