OGC OLS Standard

This standard specifies interfaces that enable companies in the Location Based Services (LBS) value chain to “hook-up” and provide their pieces of applications such as emergency response (E-911, for example), personal navigator, traffic information service, proximity service, location recall, mobile field service, travel directions, restaurant finder, corporate asset locator, concierge, routing, vector map portrayal and interaction, friend finder, and geography voice-graphics.

Documents

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Document title	Version	OGC Doc No.	Type
OpenGIS Location Service (OpenLS) Implementation Specification: Core Services	1.2.0	07-074	IS
OpenGIS Location Service (OpenLS) Implementation Specification: Core Services	1.1	05-016	D-IS
OGC Location Services (OpenLS): Tracking Service Interface Standard	1.0.0	06-024r4	IS
OpenGIS Location Services (OpenLS): Core Services [Parts 1-5]	1.0	03-006r3	D-RFC
OpenGIS Location Services (OpenLS): Part 6 - Navigation Service		08-028r7	IS
OpenGIS Location Services (OpenLS): Core Services [Parts 1-5]		03-006r1	D-RFC
OpenGIS Location Services (OpenLS): Navigation Service [Part 6]		03-007r1	D-RFC

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Overview

The Open Location Services Interface Standard (OpenLS) specifies interfaces that enable companies in the Location Based Services (LBS) value chain to “hook up” and provide their pieces of applications such as emergency response (E-911, for example), personal navigator, traffic information service, proximity service, location recall, mobile field service, travel directions, restaurant finder, corporate asset locator, concierge, routing, vector map portrayal and interaction, friend finder, and geography voice-graphics. These applications are enabled by interfaces that implement OpenLS services such as a Directory Service, Gateway Service, Geocoder Service, Presentation (Map Portrayal) Service and others.