Re: [ubl] Defining Geograpic areas in UBL - How?

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

Here is my guess:

I'm assuming that you are referring to how to fill in cac:Location 
... that in your UBL you've gotten down the structure to 
cac:DeliveryLocation or cac:PhysicalLocation, or some other ASBIE 
that has the object class described by cac:Location.

Looking at my HTML reports found here:

   http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/resources/ubl/index.htm#ubl2modelreport

... I find cac:Location at row 598 of the common library.  I see 
there is a child cac:Address.  In address I see the last child is 
zero or more cac:LocationCoordinate elements.  and in 
cac:LocationCoordinate I see the ability to enter in many values for 
latitude, longitude, etc.

So, then, if I had to specify three lat/long values for a delivery 
location, I would use:

   <cac:DeliveryLocation>
     <cac:Address>
       <cac:LocationCoordinate>
          <cac:LatitudeDegreesMeasure>yyy</cac:LatidudeDegreesMeasure>
          <cac:LatitudeDirectionCode>North</cac:LatitudeDirectionCode>
          <cac:LongitudeDegreesMeasure>xxx</cac:LongitudeDegreesMeasure>
          <cac:LongitudeDirectionCode>North</cac:LongitudeDirectionCode>
       </cac:LatitudeCoordinate>
       <cac:LocationCoordinate>
          <cac:LatitudeDegreesMeasure>yyy</cac:LatidudeDegreesMeasure>
          <cac:LatitudeDirectionCode>North</cac:LatitudeDirectionCode>
          <cac:LongitudeDegreesMeasure>xxx</cac:LongitudeDegreesMeasure>
          <cac:LongitudeDirectionCode>North</cac:LongitudeDirectionCode>
       </cac:LatitudeCoordinate>
       <cac:LocationCoordinate>
          <cac:LatitudeDegreesMeasure>yyy</cac:LatidudeDegreesMeasure>
          <cac:LatitudeDirectionCode>North</cac:LatitudeDirectionCode>
          <cac:LongitudeDegreesMeasure>xxx</cac:LongitudeDegreesMeasure>
          <cac:LongitudeDirectionCode>North</cac:LongitudeDirectionCode>
       </cac:LatitudeCoordinate>
     </cac:Address>
   </cac:DeliveryLocation>

And the way I actually found this was backwards:  I looked up 
Latitude and found where LatitudeDegreesMeasure is used, which is in 
LocationCoordinate, then looking at LocationCoordinate I see it is 
used in Address, then looking in address I see it is used as a DeliveryAddress.

I hope this is what FreightWise is looking for.  Please acknowledge 
either way so that I can guess again if I am wrong above.

Thanks for the question, Andy!

. . . . . . . . . . ken

At 2009-08-07 15:15 -0400, Andrew Schoka wrote:
>Dear UBLers,
>The Freightwise project is moving to formulate their data models, 
>and subsequently their documents, in UBL. They have requirements to 
>define locations as either a point or a geographic area. I believe 
>that Freightwise envisions defining a geographic area by listing 3 
>or more points or coordinate locations.
>
>I am querying the UBL TC participants to ask if this has already 
>been done in UBL, and if so, how;  or,  will an area location 
>represent a new requirement? Whether it already exists or is a new 
>requirement I am vitally interested in learning how this should be 
>done within UBL. All comments or suggestions are enthusiastically welcome.
>Regards,
>Andy Schoka
>


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