Geography Markup Language

Geographic Markup Language (GML) ist eine vom Open GIS Consortium bearbeitete 2-D-Vektorbeschreibungssprache. Offene Schnittstelle zu GIS. Das Format soll nur dem Datenaustausch und der Datensicherung dienen.

Allgemein

• British Ordnance Survey distributes data in GML 2.1.2
• Enabling the Geo-spatial Web
• Geography Markup Language (version 3.1) is described in a Recommendation Paper from Open Geospatial Consortium available
• The GML 3.1 schema documents are available from http://schemas.opengis.net/gml/3.1.0/base/.
• GML Artikel
• OpenGIS® Geography Markup Language (GML) Implementation Specification (pdf)
• JUMP - Unified Mapping Platform - JUMP includes:* The JUMP Workbench, an extensible, interactive GUI for visualizing and manipulating spatial features with geometry and attributes
• Location-based Services and GML: Laying the Geo-spatial Web Foundations
• Making Maps for the Web with GML
• Presentation by Galdos on GML to a W3C/WAP workshop
• Why GML - Einführende Übersicht mit zahlreichen Linkhinweisen zum Thema Geography Markup Language

API

• GML4J - Java API for facilitating work with Geography Markup Language (GML)

Daten

• TIGER/GML Download Page - einschl. Schemas

Papers

• A New Breed of Web-Enabled Graphics ( Michael Gould and Antonio Ribalaygua)
• Developing an Internet-GIS Application using GML
• GML - User Perspectives - Article from Don Murray, President SAfe Software
• Impact of GML on Data Development
• Is GML only for Internet GIS?
• [ Multi-purpose Publishing of Geodata in the Web]

Specifications

• GML 1
• GML 2.1.2
• [http://www.opengis.org/docs/02-023r4.pdf GML 3.0 Specification

Tools

• [GAIA: WMS/WFS/GML viewer for Windows - OGC compliant viewer]