Talk:GMLLCN

raphael 06:55, 11 August 2009 (UTC) : A new attribute GML location name is proposed. This attribute is intended for a verbal description or designation of the location of a place. It is a renamed form of one the attributes suggested in the BSH/JEppesen pilot report and the GML attribute locationName which plays the same role in GML. Comment received in 2008 after the BSH-Jeppesen study suggested using GML locationName instead of the unnamed new attribute suggested in that study. This would work, but makes the conceptual model dependent on GML (the single such dependency). I think an attribute for strings designating locations will be useful because in some cases displaying a verbal description of the place may be useful to the human user of the ECDIS though not to the software. E.g., "on a line between X and Y", "between buoys M and N", "in the vicinity of feature X" can be visually checked (though sometimes only approximately). The introduction of this attribute will not prevent spatial objects being created for the same location wherever needed.

As usual, comments invited.

This attribute is intended to be bound to PILBOP but could also be bound to other objects.