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Terminology doc bugs #20

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c42f opened this issue Aug 8, 2016 · 1 comment
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Terminology doc bugs #20

c42f opened this issue Aug 8, 2016 · 1 comment

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c42f commented Aug 8, 2016

According to https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/docs/support/guide-coordinate-systems-great-britain.pdf (an excellent read), the word datum should be identified with a TRS rather than a TRF (is this standard? need to read something definitive on the matter). The terminology docs probably need more work anyway.

Perhaps this also means the abstract type Datum should be ReferenceFrame instead since positions are always relative to an actual realization. A pity since it's longer, though possibly less jargon-y.

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c42f commented Aug 11, 2016

Uh oh. The IERS says a datum is a "geodetic reference frame"

ftp://tai.bipm.org/iers/conv2010/tn36_gl.pdf

So maybe the technical community doesn't really agree, still needs further digging.

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