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Technical standard for retrieving GIS data

In computing, the Open Geospatial Consortium Web Feature Service (WFS) Interface Standard provides an interface allowing requests for geographical features across the web using platform-independent calls. One can think of geographical features as the "source code" behind a map, whereas the WMS interface or online tiled mapping portals like Google Maps return only an image, which end-users cannot edit or spatially analyze. The XML-based Geography Markup Language (GML) furnishes the default payload-encoding for transporting geographic features, but other formats like shapefiles can also serve for transport. In early 2006 the OGC members approved the OpenGIS GML Simple Features Profile. This profile is designed both to increase interoperability between WFS servers and to improve the ease of implementation of the WFS standard. Wikipedia →

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  1. Read the overview: Web Feature ServiceA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Group Feature Aggregation for Web Service RecommendationsInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text ProcessingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: A New QoS-Aware Web Service Recommendation System Based on Contextual Feature Recognition at Server-SideCited 43 times
  5. Go sideways: Open Geospatial ConsortiumA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Web Coverage ServiceA closely related topic

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