Re: Location Requirements - Data Details

At 07:29 AM 7/17/2002 -0400, Rosen, Brian wrote:
>The current requirements are pretty sparse in describing what has
>to be carried in a location. I'd like to see some specificity,
>so that the following are accommodated:
>
>1. There must be formats for both lat/lon/altitude and "civil"
>locations

You mean "Postal", as in the street address? Shouldn't this be a valid
optional *additional* LO in the reply?
>
>2. Time of sighting (mentioned, but not a requirement)

I firmly believe the timestamp should be a requirement (using NTP)

>
>3. Motion and direction vectors

This is a good idea, but shouldn't be mandatory

>
>4. Precision (there is a more appropriate term, I forget what
>it is)

fuzziness, or fudge-factor.... I agree with this

>
>Brian

cheers,
James

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Received on Wed Jul 17 20:16:33 2002