NOTICE: This version of the NSF Unidata web site (archive.unidata.ucar.edu) is no longer being updated.
Current content can be found at unidata.ucar.edu.
To learn about what's going on, see About the Archive Site.
NOTE: The galeon
mailing list is no longer active. The list archives are made available for historical reasons.
-- Wenli ----- Original Message ----- From: Ron Lake <rlake@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008 6:04 pm Subject: RE: [galeon] Features and Coverages
Indeed rasters are key - but rasters are one kind of data structure torepresent a coverage - nothing that I said had anything to do witheliminating rasters - just one should not equate coverage with raster -it is one kind of coverage representation (and a very important one). Note that one could also represent the geometry of so called conventional features like roads by creating a coverage which is thecharacteristic function of the road - e.g. set all points on the road =1and set all points off the road = 0 - this is a "where the road is" coverage. R
galeon
archives: