At the OGC Architecture Board Meeting on 2021-05-11, there was discussion of how should OGC define in the Abstract Specification a model for describing bounding boxes that is inclusive of all uses in OGC Standards?
Secondary question: what working group has ownership of this concept?
Or maybe that is the primary question, and why the supporting models are either missing or at best hard to find?
Conceptual model - well established in mathematics
Do we need to cover convex hulls, envelopes, etc.?
Do we need to clarify number of dimensions? (e.g. weather forcasts have (x,y,z,t + t1), digital twins could have doubling (x,y,z,t + x1,y1,z1,t1))
Terminology – much is OGC specific, perhaps unnecessarily
Encoding in specific contexts
Encoding for specific special cases (e.g. calendar time, discrete dimensions)
May need best practices.
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