Bryce L Nordgren wrote:
If you're in the USA (or must deal with data from US data warehouses),
feast your peepers on:
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Exploring+an+elevation+standard

The upshot is that the proposed American National Standards Institute
(ANSI) standard is fundamentally unworkable as it stands, and is in danger
of being accepted (read: imposed on us).  If we can come up with a better
design which includes the minimal functionality one would expect of an
elevation data type by close of business (US East coast) on 11 Apr, 2006,
I'll distill the proposal into comments and submit it to ANSI.
Doh, not sure I can help on this one. Can we get some more warning next time?
I think it might help to consider the development of this alternative
proposal as a learning experience and the comments as "lessons learned".

Bryce
PS: The elevation part mainly concerns coverages, but you feature weenies
might want to noodle transportation, hydrography, etc., to see if your
shiny new model can accomodate the proposed standard features. :)
We are working on compiling right now, we are learning enough from implementing for the short term. I will try and keep my head up for both usability and scope issues but the code must go on.

Jody



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