Location and Bounded Areas: GML Simple Features Profile

[Anne Hendry <ahendry@pacbell.net>]

Following on to the discussion/request in today's EMIX meeting about zeroing in on the ability to define bounded areas I took the recent exchange on EI ( http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/energyinterop/201101/msg00029.html ) and followed along through the wikipedia reference to the OGC site.

There is a Common Architecture document at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards under 'Simple Features' (scroll down in left navigation panel, must do a click-through agreement to view the spec).  Being a very visually oriented person I started on page 23.  :)  I think the geospatial elements in this document address our needs around defining bounded areas, such as those used to define baseline tariff areas/territories by the California PUC.

There is also a 'simple features profile' (click on 'Specification Profiles' back at standards page) recently released and approved for OASIS use last month http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/emergency/201101/msg00026.html also attached to this email  http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/emergency/201101/msg00007.html.  Supported GML geometric property types on page 21.

The referenced GML standard is here: http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/gml

Schema examples forthcoming: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/emergency/201102/msg00003.html

Therer are many, many specs, profiles, etc on the OGC site so still needs more sorting/investigation but this is a start for discussion.

-Anne