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Interoperability in Practice: Problems in Semantic Conversion from Current Technology to OpenGIS

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Interoperating Geographic Information Systems (INTEROP 1999)

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This work investigates the practical issue of mapping existing GIS to the OpenGIS standards. We describe the data models used in three systems (MGE, ARC/INFO and SPRING) and analyse the problems involved when mapping them to OpenGIS. Our conclusion is that the OpenGIS standard has not been defined in a formal and unequivocal way, and therefore, there are indefinitions and competing alternatives for mapping existing GIS systems into the proposed standard.

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  1. Image Processing Division – DPI, National Institute for Space Research – INPE, P.O.Box 515, 12201-027, São José dos Campos, Brazil

    Gilberto Câmara, Ubirajara Freitas & Antônio Miguel Vieira Monteiro

  2. Geoambiente Sensoriamento Remoto, Rua Anésia N. Matarazzo, 60, Vila Rubi, 12245-160, São José dos Campos, Brazil

    Rogério Thomé

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  1. Netcetera AG, Zypressenstr. 71, CH-8040, Zürich, Switzerland

    Andrej Včkovski

  2. Spatial Data Handling, Department of Geography, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstr. 190, CH-8057, Zürich, Switzerland

    Kurt E. Brassel

  3. Professor Emeritus of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland

    Hans-Jörg Schek

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Câmara, G., Thomé, R., Freitas, U., Vieira Monteiro, A.M. (1999). Interoperability in Practice: Problems in Semantic Conversion from Current Technology to OpenGIS. In: Včkovski, A., Brassel, K.E., Schek, HJ. (eds) Interoperating Geographic Information Systems. INTEROP 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1580. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10703121_11

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