On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Moritz Lennert < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 22/06/15 15:40, Margherita Di Leo wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Moritz Lennert >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> wrote: >> >> Hi Matej, >> >> Thank you for the updates. >> >> I have one question concerning the metadata templates: do I >> understand correctly that by default, neither the basic, nor the >> inspire template contain a reference to the projection system ? >> >> IIUC, INSPIRE currently does not impose this, but I don't really >> understand how such basic information can be missing from the >> metadata. What help is the bounding box info, if we don't know in >> which CRS it is ? >> >> >> I agree that it sounds strange, however the bounding box is given in >> geographic (unprojected) coordinates, and the ISO 19115:2003, where the >> GeographicBoundingBox comes from, reads (B.3.2.1): "geographic position >> of the dataset NOTE This is only an approximate reference so specifying >> the coordinate reference system is unnecessary " >> > > Using g.gui.metadata on the hospitals map in nc_spm_08, I get: > > <gmd:extent> > <gmd:EX_Extent> > <gmd:geographicElement> > <gmd:EX_GeographicBoundingBox> > <gmd:westBoundLongitude> > <gco:Decimal>308097.937400562</gco:Decimal> > </gmd:westBoundLongitude> > <gmd:eastBoundLongitude> > <gco:Decimal>20235.5644005626</gco:Decimal> > </gmd:eastBoundLongitude> > <gmd:southBoundLatitude> > <gco:Decimal>914347.8748615</gco:Decimal> > </gmd:southBoundLatitude> > <gmd:northBoundLatitude> > <gco:Decimal>156998.1718615</gco:Decimal> > </gmd:northBoundLatitude> > </gmd:EX_GeographicBoundingBox> > </gmd:geographicElement> > </gmd:EX_Extent> > </gmd:extent> > > Looks like projected coordinates to me... I would say this is a bug. -- Best regards, Dr. Margherita DI LEO Scientific / technical project officer European Commission - DG JRC Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) Via Fermi, 2749 I-21027 Ispra (VA) - Italy - TP 261 Tel. +39 0332 78 3600 [email protected] Disclaimer: The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may not in any circumstance be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission.
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