Re: [Geopriv] I-D Action:draft-george-geopriv-lamp-post-00.txt

Carl,

Agree that we need a reference feature to this CAtype. Will it make 
sense to consider MP with a parameter to specify additional information 
(what kind, road name ... ?) Unfortunately, that required a new xml 
namespace, a registry ...

-Robins

On 7/4/2010 3:36 AM, Carl Reed wrote:
> Robins -
> I would suggest adding some clauses stating that MP shall be used in 
> conjunction with RD or some other feature type that references a 
> linear feature, such as a stream, road, or trail. A mile marker/post 
> means nothing unless there is a reference feature. Also, there are 
> often rules regarding from which "end" of the feature the marker is 
> calculated from. Not sure if this information needs to also be 
> encoded. Perhaps worth some discussion. Finally, the mile market issue 
> was intensely discussed in the NENA Next Generation Data Working 
> Group. This discussion was part of the larger addressing standards 
> discussion. Unfortunately, I cannot remember the outcome :-( but we 
> can find out.
> Also, for those interested, there is an ISO standard for an abstract 
> model for linear referencing (ISO 19148).
> Regards
>
> Carl Reed
> CTO
> OGC
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Robins George <mailto:robinsg@huawei.com>
>     *To:* geopriv@ietf.org <mailto:geopriv@ietf.org>
>     *Sent:* Thursday, July 01, 2010 3:21 AM
>     *Subject:* [Geopriv] Fwd: I-D
>     Action:draft-george-geopriv-lamp-post-00.txt
>
>
>     The ECRIT WG believes, GEO-PRIV WG would be more appropriate to
>     discuss this draft [1], by considering the previous discussions
>     happened in the GEO-PRIV mailing list. More over, draft is talking
>     about location information.
>
>     Will everyone please give this draft a review, and post comments,
>     questions, and suggested changes?
>
>     [1] - draft-george-ecrit-lamp-post-02
>
>     - robins.
>
>
>
>     -------- Original Message --------
>     Subject: 	I-D Action:draft-george-geopriv-lamp-post-00.txt
>     Date: 	Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:15:02 -0700 (PDT)
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>     A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
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>     	Title           : Civic Location Format Extension for Utility and Lamp Post Numbers
>     	Author(s)       : R. George, et al.
>     	Filename        : draft-george-geopriv-lamp-post-00.txt
>     	Pages           : 6
>     	Date            : 2010-07-01
>
>     This document describes an extension to civic location format and
>     adds two new CAtypes: PN (pole number) and MP (milepost).  Pole
>     Numbers are used on poles such as lamp posts or utility poles, and
>     can be used in some circumstances as location information.  Mileposts
>     are numeric values measured from an end of a trail, road, railway
>     line or other feature.
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