Some comments:
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A.
Name: Box
Definition: The geographic extent, declared by means of a defined co-ordinate system.
<delete>
Comment: The Box construct uses the DCSV method [2] to gather a set of co-ordinates together. Although normal usage will be simply to define a
bounding box for the resource, the construct is also capable of holding more complex boundary shapes. The co-ordinate system used to describe
the locations (such as latitude and longitude) should be identified as a value qualifier.
</delete>
<insert>
Comment: Using a Box to identify a place requires multiple components within the element value. DCBOX [3] provides a simple method for
specifying these for a rectangular shaped region, including notations for plain-text serialisations which may be useful when using particular
storage methods. By encapsulating all components associated with a single place within one value in this way, it is straightforward to specify
multiple, disjoint, regions and locations through simple repetition of the Coverage element. If used, DCBOX should be identified as the value
qualifier.
</insert>
Name: Point
Definition: A single point in space, declared by means of a defined co-ordinate system.
<delete>
Comment: The co-ordinate system used to describe the location (such as a latitude and longitude) should be identified as a value qualifier.
</delete>
<insert>
Comment: A location identified through coordinates requires multiple components within the element value. DCPOINT [4] provides a simple method
for specifying this, including notations for plain-text serialisations which may be useful when using particular storage methods. By
encapsulating all components associated with a single place within one value in this way, it is straightforward to specify multiple, disjoint,
regions and locations through simple repetition of the Coverage element. If used, DCPOINT should be identified as the value qualifier.
</insert>
and further down, add refs to
[3] http://www.agcrc.csiro.au/projects/3018CO/metadata/dcbox/
[4] http://www.agcrc.csiro.au/projects/3018CO/metadata/dcpoint/
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B.
Delete refs to DD and DMS - they are useless by themselves as we should never have a single coordinate value to be thus qualified - you wouldn't
know which axis or boundary it referred to for which possibly disjoint region!
Add to list of "Value Qualifiers"
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System,
http://www-nmd.usgs.gov/www/gnis/
NIMA GEOnet Names Server,
http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/index.html
U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Gazetteer,
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer/
Natural Resources Canada, Geographical Names of Canada,
http://GeoNames.NRCan.gc.ca/english/
Australian Geographic Place Names (Gazetteer),
http://www.auslig.gov.au/products/digidat/topodata.htm#gazoz
http://kaos.erin.gov.au/database/MAN200R.html
Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica,
http://www.pnra.it/SCAR_GAZE
Gazetteer for Scotland,
http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/
Kentucky Atlas & Gazetteer,
http://ukcc.uky.edu:80/~atlas/
Swedish Atlas Place Names site:
http://www.sna.se/ortregister.html
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Best Simon
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