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ISO 2001 All rights reserved
ISO TC 211
Date: 2001-07-07
ISO/DIS 19109
ISO TC 211/WG 2
Secretariat: NSF
Geographic information Rules for application schema
Information gographique Rgles de schma d'application
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Contents
Foreword.....................................................................................................................................................................vi
Introduction...............................................................................................................................................................vii
1
Scope ..............................................................................................................................................................1
2
Conformance..................................................................................................................................................1
3
Normative references ....................................................................................................................................1
4
Terms and definitions ...................................................................................................................................2
5
Presentation and abbreviations ...................................................................................................................4
5.1
Presentation ...................................................................................................................................................4
5.2
Abbreviations.................................................................................................................................................4
6
Context............................................................................................................................................................4
6.1
Purpose of an application schema ..............................................................................................................4
6.2
Rules for application schema.......................................................................................................................5
6.3
Application schema supporting data interchange.....................................................................................5
6.3.1
Introduction....................................................................................................................................................5
6.3.2
Data interchange by transfer........................................................................................................................6
6.3.3
Data interchange by transactions................................................................................................................7
7
Principles for defining features....................................................................................................................8
7.1
Features..........................................................................................................................................................8
7.2
Features and the application schema .........................................................................................................9
7.3
The General Feature Model ........................................................................................................................10
7.3.1
Introduction..................................................................................................................................................10
7.3.2
The purpose of the GFM .............................................................................................................................10
7.3.3
The main structure of the GFM ..................................................................................................................11
7.3.4
GF_FeatureType ..........................................................................................................................................12
7.3.5
GF_PropertyType.........................................................................................................................................13
7.3.6
GF_AttributeType ........................................................................................................................................13
7.3.7
GF_AssociationRole....................................................................................................................................14
7.3.8
GF_Operation...............................................................................................................................................14
7.3.9
GF_AssociationType ...................................................................................................................................14
7.3.10 GF_InheritanceRelation ..............................................................................................................................15
7.3.11 GF_Constraint..............................................................................................................................................16
7.4
Attributes of feature types ..........................................................................................................................16
7.4.1
Introduction..................................................................................................................................................16
7.4.2
attributeOfAttribute .....................................................................................................................................16
7.4.3
GF_SpatialAttributeType.............................................................................................................................17
7.4.4
GF_TemporalAttributeType ........................................................................................................................18
7.4.5
GF_QualityAttributeType ............................................................................................................................18
7.4.6
GF_LocationAttributeType .........................................................................................................................18
7.4.7
GF_MetadataAttributeType.........................................................................................................................18
7.4.8
GF_ThematicAttributeType.........................................................................................................................18
7.5
Relationships between Feature Types ......................................................................................................18
7.5.1
Introduction..................................................................................................................................................18
7.5.2
GF_InheritanceRelation ..............................................................................................................................18
7.5.3
GF_AssociationType ...................................................................................................................................19
7.6
Behaviour of feature types .........................................................................................................................20
7.6.1
Introduction..................................................................................................................................................20
7.6.2
observesValuesOf ....................................