[dhcwg] Re: Unit of Measurement...?

Henning Schulzrinne <hgs@cs.columbia.edu> Thu, 10 July 2003 17:36 UTC

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Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 13:39:09 -0400
From: Henning Schulzrinne <hgs@cs.columbia.edu>
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James M. Polk wrote:

> 
> OK.... so I'm having a bad day and (perhaps) as a result of this, I 
> don't understand what (which?) "unit of the measurement" you are 
> referring to...
> 
> It seems to be in relation to Altitude - which we have a unit of 
> measurement included already (meters and floors). Do you want additional 
> ones defined?
> 
> We state that if the datum doesn't define a "0" altitude, we define it 
> as "mean low tide". Does this not cover that angle? This seems pointless 
> when the altitude is measured in floors, but I could be wrong.

I gather the datum for long/lat does not uniquely define the datum for 
altitude.


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