期刊名称：ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2194-9042
电子版ISSN：2194-9050
出版年度：2004
卷号：XXXV Part B4
页码：1153-1155
出版社：Copernicus Publications
摘要：Spatial Data as one major component of every GIS System has faced many challenges these years. Each software uses its own data format and exchanging from one format to another may cause some problems like lose of data or incompatibility. Going toward Interoperability and inventing open data formats will help data owners to prepare their data for all users with different needs and different software. Markup languages with their characteristics made it easy to define any kind of data without the need to have any particular software. So spatial data is no exception. Using new technologies like XML and GML helps to find a way of Interoperability and data sharing, with the benefit of independency of any special software
