Talk:CARDIR

raphael 02:08, 21 February 2012 (UTC): Either compass point alone or compass point + degrees is fine. FYI, GML uses text abbreviations like "ESE", "NE".
Is Cardinal Point the proper name for something which also names the intermediate points?

(And we must not forget Southwest and by West three-quarters West.)

jens 07:52, 21 February 2012 (UTC) That is why I called them cardinal directions. We have got 4 main cardinal directions anmd some intermediate directions.
Soutwest was defined as halfway beteen S and W, or did I got your message wrong?

raphael 22:10, 21 February 2012 (UTC): Just a small joke...one of Capt. Marryat's more obscure stories.

raphael (talk) 03:02, 6 February 2017 (CET): GML has the enumeration compassPoint, which uses abbreviations instead. Should we change CARDIR to be like that?

<simpleType name="CompassPointEnumeration">
<restriction base="string">
<enumeration value="N"/>
<enumeration value="NNE"/>
<enumeration value="NE"/>
<enumeration value="ENE"/>
<enumeration value="E"/>
<enumeration value="ESE"/>
<enumeration value="SE"/>
<enumeration value="SSE"/>
<enumeration value="S"/>
<enumeration value="SSW"/>
<enumeration value="SW"/>
<enumeration value="WSW"/>
<enumeration value="W"/>
<enumeration value="WNW"/>
<enumeration value="NW"/>
<enumeration value="NNW"/>
</restriction>
</simpleType>

raphael (talk) 23:57, 25 May 2018 (CEST): Use of abbreviations was agreed in March 2017. The CARDIR page should be updated. It will need discussion because the registry currently (1) does not use the abbreviations and (2) defines the points in numeric terms, e.g., "west" is defined as "258.75-281.25 degrees" which may be too much precision for nautical publications. (Are nautical publications precise enough to distinguish "northwest" from "northnorthwest"?)

Also, there are similar attributes defined in different domains (windDirectionCompassPoint, waveDirectionCompassPoint, directionOfExpectedMovement). That may become another issue to be reconciled.