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Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: >... The geographic descriptors >may be using OGC standards such as the Geographic Markup >Language (GML). The location standard common in America >is WS84, but in Australia it is GDA94. If a third standard >that includes both requirements chooses the American common >descriptors over the Australian, and chooses to use homebrew >descriptors for geographic elements over say, GML, then >at this point, a global vendor has no choice but to >gut the standard with variants. One prefers to do this >using an acceptable version indicator or even by extension, >but it will be done regardless of the intent of the >committees. > I don't agree that the smaller countries (i.e. the US or Europe) should have to yield to the larger country (i.e. Australia, including our Antarctic Territories.) For a start, I can imagine that our standard unit of distance (the "hop") , area (the "square hop"), and longtitude and latitude (the "hopalong" and "hopalot") would be unintuitive for people from the kangaroo-poor nations, however reasonable they may seem to us. With the customary marsupial blandishments, Skippy
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