opengeospatial / geoedge-plugfest

Repository for Geospatial to the Edge Interoperability Plugfest
http://www.github.com/opengeospatial/geoedge-plugfest
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Issue with raster scale questions #56

Open bermud opened 6 years ago

bermud commented 6 years ago

Bounding envelope (lat/Long) plus scale (which isn’t really possible to specify in Geodetic values) isn’t that sensible. It only makes sense in a projected CRS.

Scale also only makes sense if you specify the mm/pixel of the image generated. Scale is of course comparing the real world measure against a real world scaled down version. So neither source units (degrees which are an anglular measure and need to be mapped to m) or the target (pixels but without a mm/pixel) are measurable. Assumptions can be made but I think you need to make them otherwise every client will do something different.

If you compare images, literal comparison of identity/equivalence is probably not good enough. There needs probably to be specific tests and tolerances (due to different rounding assumptions etc.