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Web Map Context

TAP Endorsed Specification
Description
 

A Web Map Context Document specifies how a specific grouping of one or more maps coming from one or more Web Map Services can be described in a portable format for storage, use and reuse within and between clients.

A Web Map Context Document can:

  1. Provide default views for particular users and applications
  2. Save the state of a viewer client during a session
  3. Allow a view saved from one client to be used within a different client to view the same content

This specification is designed to work with the Web Map Service, but can be used by a broad range of services providing content in the form of a catalog, for WMS layers. Context documents can also be catalogued and discovered, and are analogous to 'projects' in common desktop GIS applications.

Complete description


Implementation Specification
 
Version
Date
Location
1.0.0  
2003.06.10  

Geoconnections
03-036r2.pdf

Open Geospatial Consortium
03-036r2.pdf

 

Status
 
2002.11.12 Endorsed by the Geoconnections Technology Advisory Panel

Other Info
 

The Web Map Context Document specification was developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium.

effective 2003.05.30