H.7. Geospatial Interoperability

Purpose Standard Guidance
Distribution of compiled mapping (raster) data between applications.

OGC 04-024 (ISO 19128:2005), Web Map Service v.1.3

Fading (Dec 2012): v1.0.0, v1.1.0, and v1.1.1

OGC 05-078r4, OpenGIS Styled Layer Descriptor Profile of the Web Map Service (SLD) v.1.1.0

OGC XXX, Web Map Tiling Service v.1.3 Emerging: Dec 2012

WMTS are to be provided as a complimentary service to WMS to ease access to users operating in bandwidth constraint environments. WMTS trades the flexibility of custom map rendering for the scalability possible by serving of static data (base maps) where the bounding box and scales have been constrained to discrete tiles which enables the use of standard network mechanisms for scalability such as distributed cache systems to cache images between the client and the server, reducing latency and bandwidth use.
Distribution of geo feature (vector) data between applications

OGC 04-094, Web Feature Service (WFS) v.1.1.

OGC 06-049r1, GML Simple Feature Profil (GML 3.1.1) v.1.0.0 Compliance Level 0

OGC 04-095, Filter Encoding v.1.1

 
Electronic interchange of geospatial data as coverages, that is, digital geospatial information representing space varying phenomena

OGC 07-067r2, Web Coverage Service (WCS) v.1.1.1

Fading (Dec 2011): v1.0.0 and v1.1.0

OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) Standard Guidance Implementation Specification 1.0

Required for publishing coverage data.
Catalogue services support the ability to publish and search collections of descriptive information (metadata) for geospatial data, services, and related information objects.

OGC 07-006r1: Catalogue Service for the Web (CSW) v.2.0.2, SOAP message

OGC 07-110r4, CSW-ebRIM Registry Service - Part 1: ebRIM profile of CSW v.1.0.1

Catalogue Services will be defined during CE planning events.
Electronic format for medium resolution terrain evaluation data. U.S. Military Specification Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED) level 0,1,2 MIL- PRF-89020B Used to support line-of-sight analyses, terrain profiling, 3- D terrain visualization, mission planning/rehearsal, and modeling and simulation.
File based storage and exchange of digital geospatial mapping (raster) data where services based access is not possible
  • Geotiff (a public domain metadata standard embedding georeferencing information within a TIFF 6.0 file

  • JPEG2000 (ISO/IEC 15444-1 and 2)

  • Multiresolution seamless image database (MrSid Generation 2)

  • Enhanced Compressed Wavelet (ECW 3.3)

  • NSA Compressed ARC Digitized Raster Graphics (CADRG)

  • Raster product format (RPF)

This is provided for legacy systems, implementers are encouraged to upgrade their systems to consume OGC Web Services.
File based storage and exchange of non-topological geometry and attribute information or digital geospatial feature (vector) data where services based access is not possible

ESRI SHAPE files

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), Keyhole Markup Language (KML 2.2)

This is provided for legacy systems, implementers are encouraged to upgrade their systems to provide/consume OGC Web Services.
Table H.5. Geospatial Interoperability