Another eml-spatialReference Question

[Peter McCartney]

Nope. its the same as the attribute Projected Coordinate System Name
introduced in the ESRI profile of FGDC. i may have accidently put fgdc in
the lineage by mistake, sorry. 

Esri basically introduced this so that people could put in a friendly name
for a projection and ( think) have the option of not providing the rest of
the information if the didnt know it. We do have a very real situation where
many users know that their data is utm zone 12 Nad 27, but still wouldnt
know how to fill in the spatial reference parameters. This was why i
suggested following the STMML model that chad invoked as a way of storing
definitions for common projections.

Peter McCartney (peter.mccartney at asu.edu)
Center for Environmental Studies
Arizona State University
480-965-6791 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Ramsey [mailto:kramsey at jornada.nmsu.edu]
> Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 11:20 AM
> To: peter.mccartney at asu.edu
> Subject: Another eml-spatialReference Question
> 
> 
> Peter,
> 
> Is the element 'ProjectedCoordinateSystemName' in eml-spatialReference
> the same as the FGDC attribute 'Map Projection Name'?
> 
> Examples of FGDC Map Projection Names are Albers Conical Equal
> Area,Azimuthal Equidistant,Equidistant Conic,Equirectangular,General
> Vertical Near-sided Projection,Gnomomic,Lambert Azimuthal Equal
> Area,Lambert Conformal Conic,Mercator,Modified Stereographic for
> Alaska,Miller Cylindrical,Oblique Mercator,Orthographic,Polar
> Stereographic,Polyconic,Robinson,Sinusoidal,Space Oblique
> Mercator,Stereographic,Transverse Mercator,van der Grinten,other
> projection.
> 
> Sorry for the amount of examples, but I cut and pasted from the FGDC.
> 
> Ken
> 
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