[Source] [X3D-Earth] Xj3D property setting for origin manager, for inclusion in X3D-Edit

[Don Brutzman]

Rune Aasgard wrote:
> I have worked with similar problems in my Virtual Globe 
> [....]

thanks for posting these interesting code excerpts Rune
  
> I'm coming to web3d in Darmstadt, and I would like to attend the earth3d 
> workshop.

nice to meet you, thanks for attending and participating

> By the way, I'm planning to raise some noise pestering you 
> with questions of why you have not based the geographic coordinate 
> format in X3D on GML???????

we adopted the syntax and form for the various spatial reference frames
as first defined in GeoVRML

> I believe the ISO standard for 3D graphics 
> would be much more useful if there was some interoperability with the 
> ISO standard for geographic information....

this is a good point but hard to implement in the X3D schema design
unless we go to multiple-namespace support, which so far we have avoided
because it would place another burden on implementers and not add any
new functionality.

so it is worth keeping in mind, but probably better implemented in
converters to/from GML.

all the best, Don
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