Allow aliases in GeoTIFF CRS #122
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…pochGeoKey` key name from the "GeoTIFF v1.0 key name" column to the "This document key name". In my understanding, that key didn't existed in GeoTIFF 1.0.
… and requirement 16.5. This is a source code formatting, with no change in text and no change in the PDF or HTML formatting. This is a complement of pull request opengeospatial#114, which was done by an automatic tool on main paragraphs only. The formatting in this commit was done manually in preparation for future change requests with content changes.
…peated. All occurrences after the first one should be interpreted as aliases.
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In the planetary working group, there is a need for aliases because names or identifiers of some asteroids (for example) can change. The ISO 19111 specification already supports aliases, but not GeoTIFF. A possible approach would be as below:
"GCS Name = my CRS|Datum = My datum|Ellipsoid = my ellipsoid|Datum = My Datum alias|", "My datum" would be the primary datum name and "My datum alias" would be an alias for that datum.