An Environmental Data Coding Specification ...
Unifies characterizations of environmental “things”
- Regardless of how represented: Feature or Geometry or Data Table or Model or ...
- Whether individual primitives or structured collections of primitives: Furniture vs. Room vs. Building vs. Facility vs. Region
Separates enumerations from Data Representation Models
- Evolve at different rates for different reasons
- It’s a big world to capture ...
Answers three types of questions:
- What is it? Classifications and Features
- What are its additional clarifying characteristics? Attributes and Values
- What are its characteristic measures? Units of Measure and Scale