0.3.2 Jens Fitzke: Changed (some) implicit element declarations to explicit ones. Has to be done throughout the schema.
History: version 0.3.1 2005-12-19 Phillip Dibner.
Changed name of datatype to Geospatial. Namespace should ultimately disambiguate this otherwise too generic name, e.g., dc:Geospatial. Names and naming conventions are currently among the most unstable aspects of this definition.
No longer an extension of CollectionRecord.
Eliminated decimalLatitude, decimalLongitude, geodeticDatum, and coordinateUncertaintyInMeters. These are all contained within the GML geometries in this definition.
History: version 0.3 2005-09-04 Phillip Dibner. Validates.
History: version 0.2 2005-07-09 John Wieczorek. Based on DarwinCore2GML_draft01.xsd by Phillip Dibner, 2004-07-07. Removed temporal elements.
History: version 0.1 2005-07-07 Phillip Dibner. Based on geospatial.xsd by John Wieczorek, 2004-07-03
GML Application Schema expressing a geospatial extension to Darwin Core 2 (DwC2) v1.4.
GML representation of a single-point designation of a collection location, expressed as an ordered pair.HACK one of these two elements should be mandatory
GML representation of a polygonal description of a collection location, expressed as an array of coordinate pairs.
Example:
-134.256 38.672 -134.102 38.891 -133.603 38.893 -133.550 38.625
GML representation of a collection location designated as a point and an error radius. The error radius represents the upper limit of the distance from the given latitude and longitude describing a circle within which the whole of the described locality lies. If this geometry is not defined, it implies that the uncertainty is unknown, cannot be estimated, or is not applicable. Zero is not a valid value for the radius.
Example:
-134.2567801 38.6721569
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A text representation of the coordinate data (Latitude/Longitude, UTM, TRS, etc.) in its original format in the source database.
Example: "470999 1234300"
The name of the system in which the original geographic coordinates were recorded.
Examples: "decimal degrees", "degrees minutes seconds", "degrees decimal minutes", "UTM"
A reference to the methods used for determining the coordinates and uncertainties.
Example: "http://manisnet.org/GeorefGuide.html"
A list of maps, gazetteers or other resources used to georeference the locality. The content of this concept is meant to be specific enough to allow anyone in the future to use the same resource to georeference the same locality.
Example: "USGS 1:24000 Florence Montana Quad"
A categorical description of the extent to which the georeference has been verified to represent the location where the specimen or observation was collected. This element should be vocabulary-controlled.
Examples: "requires verification", "verified by collector", "verified by curator"
Comments about the spatial description determination, explaining assumptions made in addition or opposition to the those formalized in the method referred to in GeoreferenceProtocol.
Date when the record was georeferenced