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=== Background ===
John has noted that in CDM, he introduced a notion of Coordinate System which is a set of maps defined independently of any variable. In xml, this would be something like this.
<pre><CoordinateSystem name="...">
<map variable="var1"/>
...
<map variable="varn"/>
</CoordinateSystem>
</pre>
==Rationale==
The argument for it is that sets of maps are often going to be used in identical form in a number of variables. Further, it allows one to add attributes to the coordinate system element to provide extra information.

==Proposal==
Do we add this element to the DDX?

==Discussion==
There seems no immediate hurry on this. It can be added rather transparently later on when a demonstrated need exists.

DAP4: Coordinate Systems Element - Revision history

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