<div dir="auto">I too took that understanding from the text, Ari. I'll read the specs later, but since they mention a lot Big Data and the raster <> vector integration, I imagine it is akin to a geometry collection, but encompassing a wider range of data types, and arranged in a pyramid/r-tree -esque environment for faster processing.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If so, it's not an entirely novel idea (Esri's File GDB is mostly that, as well as the entire CAD modelling), but one that would be interesting to have an open standard for.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017/10/31 午前4:23 "Ari Jolma" <<a href="mailto:ari.jolma@gmail.com">ari.jolma@gmail.com</a>>:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">That also caught my eye. The text sounds a bit like marketing talk but maybe there is something.<br>
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>From a quick look my understanding is that the idea is to create a grid that divides the whole earth into cells of similar shape in a sequence of increasing cell size. And that sounds to me like a new idea.<br>
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Any other thoughts? Did I get the idea right?<br>
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Fyi<br>
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<a href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/2656" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.opengeospatial.org/<wbr>pressroom/pressreleases/2656</a><br>
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"The goal of DGGS is to enable rapid assembly of spatial data without the<br>
difficulties of working with projected coordinate reference systems. The OGC<br>
DGGS Abstract Specification standard defines the conceptual model and a set<br>
of rules for building highly efficient architectures for spatial data<br>
storage, integration and analytics. ....."<br>
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