Issue #14: Potential Errata Clarification

Jeff - thanx for the input, as I see better what you mean (while I 
still claim to be no geo expert). Essentially it boils down to 
correcting the last sentence in Section 3.3.1 from currently saying:

"Coordinates in the Southern and Western hemispheres are signed 
negative with a leading dash."

To instead say...

"Latitudes in the southern hemisphere and Longitudes in the western 
hemisphere are signed negative with a leading dash."

As such, I am changing my own opinion to include this as errata and 
support your proposed language. We obviously need more than myself to 
agree, so if there is any other input/guidance (Carl???) from the group 
then please reply. If what Jeff proposes more accurately reflects our 
intension, then we should change it.

Allen

On Jul 13, 2004, at 2:27 PM, Jeff Kyser wrote:

> On Tuesday, July 13, 2004, at 12:05  PM, R. Allen Wyke wrote:
>>
>> 2. CAP Errata: Elysa sent email 
>> (http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/emergency/200407/msg00002.html) 
>> outlining the details for Issues #13 - #18. Discussed them in meeting 
>> as follows:
>>
>> #14: Invalid issue - there can be negatives.
>
> I'm guessing that Bob Wyman's original post was not
> understood.
>
> Perhaps if the sentence in question read:
>
> 	Latitudes in the southern hemisphere and
> 	Longitudes in the western hemisphere are
> 	signed negative with a leading dash.
>
> he would have been happy, and the sentence
> would be correct.
>
> As it now reads, it is confusing. 'Coordinates' is
> really another way of saying 'Coordinate Pairs'.
> Negative 'Coordinate Pairs' does not make sense.
> And if it is not assumed to be 'Coordinate Pairs',
> then it is still incorrect or at least ambiguous as written,
> since there are longitudes in the southern hemisphere that
> are positive and there are latitudes in the western
> hemisphere that are positive.
>
> regards,
>
> -jeff