geographicboundingbox.java

GEo 地理操作源代码

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 ** $Id: GeographicBoundingBox.java,v 1.2 2004/03/09 20:02:54 desruisseaux Exp $
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 ** $Source: /cvsroot/geoapi/src/org/opengis/metadata/extent/GeographicBoundingBox.java,v $
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package org.opengis.metadata.extent;


/**
 * Geographic position of the dataset. This is only an approximate
 * so specifying the co-ordinate reference system is unnecessary.
 *
 * @UML abstract EX_GeographicBoundingBox
 * @author ISO 19115
 * @author <A HREF="http://www.opengis.org">OpenGIS&reg; consortium</A>
 * @version 5.0
 */
public interface GeographicBoundingBox extends GeographicExtent {
    /**
     * Returns the western-most coordinate of the limit of the
     * dataset extent. The value is expressed in longitude in
     * decimal degrees (positive east).
     *
     * @return The western-most longitude between -180 and +180