Glossary of Terms - B
Definitions:
- backward (and forward) compatibility
- A new version of a standard is backward compatible if all implementation of the new standard include the conformance requirements of the previous versions of the standard.
- base document
- The working draft of the OpenGIS Specification, maintained by the Chairman of the OGC Technical Committee, which is the repository for working papers that have been submitted by Committee members.
- base maps, data, or layers
- Spatial data sets that provide the background upon which more specific thematic data is overlaid and analyzed. As inputs into a GIS, the term base map is usually applied to those sources of information about relatively permanent features including topography, soil data, geology, cadastral divisions, and political divisions. Within a GIS database, such information may become part of a land base to which other information is indexed and referenced.
- base standard
- An approved International Standard, Technical Report, CCITT Recommendation or National Standard.
- bind
- In the context of OGC Web Services, Bind refers to Web service components connecting and executing through interfaces
- BMP
- Bitmap. A Microsoft Windows image format.
- bounding box
- a set of 2, 4, 6 or 8 numbers indicating the upper and lower bounds of an interval (1D), rectangle (2D), parallelpiped (3D), or hypercube along each axis of a given CRS
- broker
- A kind of intermediary service whose responsibility is only to bring other services together (typically a service requester and a service provider) and has no responsibility for satisfactory completion of the `contract` established between the requester and provider.
- business object
- An identifiable business concept such as customer or order.
- business process
- See process domain model.
