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The OGC seeks comment on Gazetteer Best Practices
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Please note: This Request is closed. The documents listed below have been adopted by the OGC Technical and Planning Committee. These specifications are under control of the Standards Working Group and will be released after the edits and revisions. For the most current version please check our Standards Page.
Description:
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC Gazetteer Best Practices Document.
There is growing interest in the development of a common feature-based model for geographic names databases, often referred to as gazetteers. This candidate OGC best practice describes the Gazetteer Service Application Profile of the OGC Web Feature Service Interface Standard.
This document is an OGC Best Practice on a particular technology or approach related to the use of OGC standards.
The following organizations submitted this Best Practice to the OGC:
- CubeWerx Inc.
- Intergraph Government Solutions
- The Carbon Project
- US Army Corps of Engineers Army Geospatial Center (AGC)
- US Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)
- US Geological Survey (USGS)
- US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
The candidate OGC Gazetteer Best Practices Document is available for public review and comment below:
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