GeoWorld: Exploring Schema Constructs in KML
Issue Date: August — 2008, Posted On: 9/1/2008
Building the GeoWeb by Ron Lake
This is Part II in a series of “Building the GeoWeb” columns comparing the schema constructs found in Keyhole Markup Language (KML) and Geography Markup Language (GML). In the first column (see “Exploring Schema Constructs in KML,” <I>GeoWorld<I>, May 2008, page 20), I […]
Geoplace.com: GeoWeb 2008 Conference: Attend. Network. Learn.
Issue Date: July - 2008, Posted On: 6/30/2008
GeoWeb 2008 Conference: Attend. Network. Learn.
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By Ron Lake
The GeoWeb is concerned with the standards and technology that enable the local and global sharing of information about the world. It’s about the impact of geographic information on the Web as well as the effect of the Web […]
GeoWorld: Exploring Schema Constructs in KML
Issue Date: May - 2008
Building the GeoWeb by Ron Lake
Many languages, including Keyhole Markup Language (KML) and Geography Markup Language (GML), use schema constructs to express a data model. "Building the GeoWeb" will explore the nature of these constructs as well as their role in each language to help researchers and application developers deploy these […]
GIS Development: gmlSDK
February 2008
Geography Markup Language(GML) has emerged in the past several years as a primary means for the exchange, sharing and aggregation of geographic information. This is true increasingly for vector based
data and we can anticipate will also be true for imaging data in the
near future.
GML application schemas exist for most of the traditional GIS data […]
GeoPlace.com: GeoWeb 2007 Deemed a Success
Issue Date: August - 2007, Posted On: 9/10/2007
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By Amielle Lake
The GeoWeb 2007 conference wrapped up on July 27, 2007, and, from all appearances, was a major success. Participation was up, with more than 260 delegates worldwide and the presence of “big-name” speakers such as Vinton Cerf (co-inventor of the Internet Protocol), Michael Jones […]
GeoWorld: Move the Discussion from Interoperability to Infrastructure (Building the Geoweb)
Issue Date: March - 2007, Posted On: 3/9/2007
Building the GeoWeb
By Ron Lake, president, Galdos Systems Inc.; e-mail: rlake@galdosinc.com.
The "watchword" of many information-technology (IT) standards organizations, notably the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and ISO TC/211, has been "interoperability": to get this to work with that. And use of this word has continued, despite the fact […]
GeoWorld: KML and GML Working Together
GeoWorld-May 2007
Building the GeoWeb
By Ron Lake, president, Galdos Systems Inc.; e-mail: rlake@galdosinc.com.
When I first encountered KML, I thought of it as a competitor to GML or, at best, an alternative. On further reflection, I thought that KML overlapped several other Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) specifications, including Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD), context (map-view specification) and XIMA […]
Geospatial Solutions: Using GIS to Manage Precious Natural Resources
November 21, 2006
By Jim Farley and Amielle Lake
Our world's most precious natural resources are in shorter supply than ever before. As such, geologists and software engineers are currently rethinking how geospatial technologies can lead to better asset management. The Oil & Gas sector has decided to focus on the management of coordinate reference system (CRS) […]
GeoWorld: ebRIM Manages Artifacts in an Open World
GeoWorld-November 2006
Building the GeoWeb-ebRIM Manages Artifacts in an Open World
By Ron Lake, president, Galdos Systems Inc.; e-mail: rlake@galdosinc.com.
The GeoWeb is an open, global or regional community of geographic information services, providing access to diverse data and geoprocessing functions. The GeoWeb can, in turn, be seen as embedded in a broader "semantic […]
GeoWorld: GML Profiles and Applications Build the GeoWeb
GeoWorld-Issue Date: October - 2006, Posted On: 10/1/2006
GML Development-GML Profiles and Applications Build the GeoWeb
By Ron Lake, president, Galdos Systems Inc.; e-mail: rlake@galdosinc.com.
Geography Markup Language (GML) is gaining momentum, and it's being adopted worldwide in a broad diversity of application domains, ranging from aviation to natural-resource management to transportation security to […]