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Feature: resolution in addition to precision #88

Closed tsaubergine closed 1 year ago

tsaubergine commented 1 year ago

On 9/21/22 19:57, Fenucci, Davide wrote:

The second question I have is about the "precision" attribute, that, as far as I understood, allows to define the resolution of a field only as a multiple/submultiple of 10 - is that correct? In some of our use cases it would be useful to define a different resolution, for instance 0.5 m for a depth, or pi/180 for an angle in radians. Restricting the resolution to multiples of 10 results in some waste of space, especially when the field is "repeated". Do you think it would make sense to add support for a "resolution" attribute (mutually exclusive with "precision" to preserve backward compatibility) that allows to specify the field's resolution as a real number (or a Lua expression)?

psmskelton commented 1 year ago

This would be extremely useful for some of our current applications, for the same reasoning.