GML Version 3.1 released

[Peter McCartney]

There would be some advangage to using GML rather than our own
implmentation of fgdc coverage for expressing geometric boundaries in
EML. You gain a growing base of search and processing operators rather
than having to develp your own for EML. You can, of course convert to
and from pretty easily, but the GML gives you a little richer syntax. 

Peter McCartney (peter.mccartney at asu.edu)
Center for Environmental-Studies
Arizona State University
 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: eml-dev-admin at ecoinformatics.org 
> [mailto:eml-dev-admin at ecoinformatics.org] On Behalf Of Matt Jones
> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 4:47 PM
> To: eml-dev
> Subject: GML Version 3.1 released
> 
> 
> I thought this might be of interest to the EML crowd.
> 
> Matt
> 
> 
> Geography Markup Language (GML) Version 3.1 Public Release 
> from Open GIS Consortium.
> 
> The Open GIS Consortium (OGC) has approved the release of the 
> "OpenGIS Geography Markup Language (GML) Implementation 
> Specification" Version 3.1.0 as a publicly available Open GIS 
> Recommendation Paper, tracked for dual release as ISO 19136. 
> GML defines XML encoding for the transport and storage of 
> geographic information, including both the geometry and 
> properties of geographic features. The release contains a 
> 601-page prose document and 33 XML Schema files.
> 
http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2004-03-26-a.html

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