Open Technology For A Spatially Enabled Web Announced
The new OpenGIS Grid Coverages Specification and OpenGIS Distributed Catalog Services Specification, combined with the already available OpenGIS Simple Features Specification and technology from OGCs Web Mapping Testbed, provide the means for unprecedented interoperability between systems that use geospatial data.In OGC, Grid Coverages refers to satellite images, digital aerial photos, digital elevation data, and other kinds of data represented in a grid cell or raster coordinate system.(Interoperability for a wider range of image operations awaits the OpenGIS Image Exploitation Services Specification, which is in progress in OGCs Technical Committee.)- Create and maintain collections of universally discoverable geospatial data sets, including a metadata set and metadata entities associated with each stored data set.- Retrieve complete or partial forms of geodata resources, including entire geospatial data sets or geographical subsections of data sets, returned to the requestor as a file or set of files.