[gdal-dev] GML lat-lon coverages and interoperability

Andrea Aime andrea.aime at geo-solutions.it
Wed Apr 5 05:16:00 PDT 2017


On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 12:24 PM, Peter Baumann <
p.baumann at jacobs-university.de> wrote:

> To avoid the problems that other standards have with axis order, coverages
> contain the axis order explicitly, in the axisLabels attribute. Here an
> example:
>
>         <gml:Envelope srsName="http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4326"
> <http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4326> *axisLabels="Lat Long"*
> uomLabels="deg deg" srsDimension="2">
>             <gml:lowerCorner>1 1</gml:lowerCorner>
>             <gml:upperCorner>3 10</gml:upperCorner>
>         </gml:Envelope>
>
> The sequence in axisLabels is indicative.
>

I'm looking at the WCS 2.0.1 core spec, all it says about the labels is:

"The attribute axisLabels is an ordered list of labels for all the axes of
this CRS". Label is a generic term, I don't see any dictionary giving
meaning to the labels.
So the following should all be equivalent to the client, or not?
<gml:Envelope srsName="http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4326"
axisLabels="Lat Long" uomLabels="deg deg" srsDimension="2">
<gml:Envelope srsName="http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4326"
axisLabels="a b" uomLabels="deg deg" srsDimension="2">
<gml:Envelope srsName="http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4326"
axisLabels="foo bar" uomLabels="deg deg" srsDimension="2">
<gml:Envelope srsName="http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4326"
axisLabels="Long Lat" uomLabels="deg deg" srsDimension="2">

I added the last on purpose, since they are just labels, they really carry
no meaning, and the axis order is still determined by the srsName instead
(thus, lat long).
Or not?


> So it is not necessary to use GridFunctions for this purpose. My personal
> opinion is that such mechanisms are not optimal for fiddling with
> coordinate positions as they make it unnecessarily difficult to determine
> the final pixel position. This seems to be the case here as well.
>

The function is there because we could not stomach the idea that "i j" in
raster space would be associated to up and right (in this order),
geographic coordinates systems have their own madness (or at least OGC
wants us to believe that) but we hoped the raster space wouldn't be
touched. If we remove the function, keep the lat/lon orientation for the
envelope, and assume pairwise matching like Jukka suggests, then this is
our raster (aka pixel) space:

[image: Inline image 2]
It can work of course.

Then, since you are here, a question about the axis order of the returned
coverages (let's assume geotiff for simplificity's sake). I am presuming
some uniformity across OGC standards, so if vector data in WGS84 is to be
returned in lat/lon order, does it makes sense to return also coverages in
the same order?
Projection unaware software displays vector data flipped when returned by a
compliant WFS 1.1 server... shouldn't it happen the same for WCS 2.0? Or
should rasters be considered somehow blessed and outside of this issue?

Cheers
Andrea

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