[wfs-dev] SRS of LatLongBoundingBox

[Carl Reed]

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If you have discovered a bug in the CITE test suite, please let the folks in
the CITE list know so that if there is a problem it can be corrected ASAP.

Thanks!

Carl

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aleksandar Milanovic" <risjak at telus.net>
To: "'Wfs-Dev (E-mail)'" <wfs-dev at opengis.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 11:08 PM
Subject: RE: [wfs-dev] SRS of LatLongBoundingBox


> It seems that you discovered a bug in the CITE tests. It may be that this
> bug is benign. For example, if these coordinates are not actually used for
> anything in the tests, then the fix will be easy to do.
>
> Alex
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wfs-dev-bounces at opengis.org [mailto:wfs-dev-bounces at opengis.org] On
> Behalf Of David McCullough
> Sent: August 31, 2004 7:18 PM
> To: Wfs-Dev (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: [wfs-dev] SRS of LatLongBoundingBox
>
>
> Alex,
>
> Yeah, I have my server coded up to return EPSG:4326 (even though our
> features are in a projected coordinate system). However, what got me
> questioning things again was looking at the GetCapabilities response in
the
> WfsCapabilities.xml file that is included wfsTestData1.0.0.zip test data
> from OGC CITE. This test file has XML like this:
>
> ...
>       <wfs:SRS>EPSG:32615</wfs:SRS>
>       <wfs:LatLongBoundingBox minx="500000" miny="500000" maxx="501000"
> maxy="501000"/> ...
>
> Clearly, these coordinates are not lat/long degree values, so is this
sample
> data incorrect?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aleksandar Milanovic [mailto:risjak at telus.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 6:45 PM
> To: David McCullough; 'Wfs-Dev (E-mail)'
> Subject: RE: [wfs-dev] SRS of LatLongBoundingBox
>
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> LatLongBoundingBox coordinates are *not* bound to the SRS of the feature
> type declared in the Capabilities document. Rather, they are in EPSG:4326
> with decimal degrees as units, if I remember well :).
>
> Cheers,
> Alex
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wfs-dev-bounces at opengis.org [mailto:wfs-dev-bounces at opengis.org]
> On
> Behalf Of David McCullough
> Sent: August 31, 2004 5:59 PM
> To: Wfs-Dev (E-mail)
> Subject: [wfs-dev] SRS of LatLongBoundingBox
>
>
> This question concerns the optional <LatLongBoundingBox>[s] that may be
> returned in the <FeatureType> elements of a GetCapabilities response. I'm
> having some confusion about what SRS the coordinates should be relative
to.
>
> The WFS-capabilities.xsd schema file says that a <LatLongBoundingBox>
should
> indicate the edges of the enclosing rectangle in the SRS of the associated
> feature. That seems clear, but then why is the element called
> LatLongBoundingBox? That seems to me to imply that the coordinates are
> geodetic, regardless of the associated feature's SRS. Which is correct?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Dave
>
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