Glossary

OWS - OGC Web Service.

OGC - Open Geospatial Consortium. International voluntary consensus standards organization. Develop and implements standards for geospatial content and services, GIS data processing and exchange.

WFS - Web Feature Service. Allow requests for geographical features across the web. It is a OGC specification.

KML - Keyhole Markup Language. XML format used by Google to represent 3D geographic information.

Feature - Entity with a geographic location, typically describable by (for example) points, arcs, or polygons.

CRS - Coordinate Reference System