[Xastir-Dev] proposed method of doing canoncial shapefile DBF attributes support

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

GML is the OpenGIS Consortium's map/GIS-specific XML, or Geographic 
Markup Language, and is pretty rich-featured.  Check here: 
http://opengis.net/download.htm

I'm going to build a webpage for specs on page4.tamu.edu, specifically 
for xastir-2.  Anyone wanting to share specs and documentation we want 
to add there can send it to me off-list.  I should have something up 
late Monday.

gerry

Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Gerry Creager (N5JXS) wrote:
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>>Woohoo!  Metadata!  In a consistent fashion!
> 
> 
> Look out, you woke up Gerry...
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>>There are standards we can tap for metadata, including GML instead of 
>>awk syntax, which are reasonably mature and don't require defining our own.
>>
>>If there's interest, I can get the OGC GML references and making them 
>>available; they're on the OpenGIS.org site, too.
>>
>>One thing I'd love to see is Xastir-2 OGC compliant for Location-Based 
>>Services, among other areas.
> 
> 
> I'm suspect Gerry knows a great deal more about this than I do, but
> why not use XML instead?  Is GML some subset of XML?
> 
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