Corridor

Corridors are sometimes used in the definition of airspace geometries. This is done by specifying a centerline and a width or half-width and it is supported in AIXM 5 through the following properties of the AirspaceVolume class:

  • width attribute
  • centreline association with Curve

The encoding of airspace corridors in this way does not make full use of the GML capabilities. Theoretically, the gml:OffsetCurve, which is an implementation of the GM_OffsetCurve, could be used to encode the corridor shape in GML. However, because of some lack of clarity that exists with regard to GM_OffsetCurve, the use OffsetCurve shall be avoided until clarified in a future ISO 19107 update.