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Mobile Location Services: The Definitive Guide
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Mobile Location Services: The Definitive Guide

by Andrew Jagoe
December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
12h 16m
English
Pearson
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4. Encoding GML

4.1. Introduction

This section describes how to encode geospatial (geographic) features in GML. The encoding of spatial features using GML 2.0 requires the use of two XML Schemas: the GML Feature Schema (feature.xsd) and the GML Geometry Schema (geometry.xsd); with these two simple schemas it is possible to encode a wide variety of geospatial information.

The remainder of this sub-section introduces the two XML Schemas using UML notation. The following sub-sections provide an introduction to encoding geospatial information in GML 2.0, broken down as follows:

  • 4.2 Encoding a feature without geometry

  • 4.3 Encoding geometry

  • 4.4 Encoding a feature with geometry

  • 4.5 Encoding collections of features

  • 4.6 Encoding associations between features ...

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