[DDI-users] New Geographic Tags in DDI

[Wendy Thomas]

I'll send some along a bit later. However, check in the DTD, I believe it
has a pretty good explanation. This geographic information is definately
not a substitute for FGDC or other geographic file descriptors. It
provides a coordinate based searching approach for data file
identification. It provides the basic bounding box info and allows for one
or more bounding polygons (closer approximation of the geographic shape of
the area covered by the data file.

I'll see what I can dig up for you a bit later...sorry for the delay

wendy


On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, A. Michelle Edwards wrote:

> Hello again all!
>
> Another question - is there any documentation available for the new tags dealing with Geo data?  Specifically tags 2.2.3.6 - 2.2.3.7?  I haven't been able to find anything on the DDI page..
>
> Also - has anyone used these and willing to show me an example?  We're trying to determine whether using the DDI standard would work for GIS data in our setting.
>
> Thanks again,
> Michelle
>
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