One view of GML is as a metadata framework. When combined with the ebRIM (e-business registry information model) this capability is further strengthened. ebRIM is one of the key specifications from OASIS. It provides a general data model . . . → Read More: GML and ebRIM

When one says that a Road feature has 3 lanes what do we mean?  Does it mean that a friend of mine has observed this to be the case?  That a government body or private company will attest . . . → Read More: Features, Observations and Authorization

When GML was first developed, many people thought of it as another kind of "shape file", that is something supporting the transfer model for geographic data. By transfer model I mean the movement of geographic data from one . . . → Read More: Transfer and Transaction Models

Feature type dictionaries have been with us for quite some time, either within proprietary products, or in open standards such as the Digest FACC. Such feature dictionaries identify concepts or terms of interest within a particular domain of . . . → Read More: Feature Catalogues/Dictionaries, GML and RDF/S

I recently had the opportunity to listen to a keynote address by Michael Jones, the CTO of Google Earth, given at Map Middle East 2006, in Duabi, U.A.E.. Most of his talk dealt with the problem he felt GE . . . → Read More: Genus Loci