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Mapping Symbology, Phase 1 (EMS 1)
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The Emergency Mapping Symbology Interoperability Program Initiative
will be a testbed initiative focusing on maturing the Style
Management Service (SMS) and the Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) with
application to Emergency Mapping Symbology. The project will test by
enabling the use of multiple symbol sets with one set of feature
data. The symbology used will likely come from the following:
- Emergency Response Map Symbology (ERMS) – a map symbology set
being defined by the FGDC’s Homeland Security Work Group. See: http://www.fgdc.gov/publications/homeland.html
- Geospatial Symbols (GeoSym) for Digital Displays. The map
symbology set defined by DOD to portray Vector Product Format
(VPF)data. Reference TBD.
SMS is a service that
was first described and demonstrated in the Open Web Services Phase
1.2 (OWS-1.2) test bed initiative. While SMS can be thought of as a
type of service, it is in actuality a logical composition of
design-patterns, service interfaces and encodings. As such, SMS
defines architecture for enabling scalable and interoperable
management of symbols and styles in support of cartographic
portrayal
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