[galeon] Overview of Some OGC Web Services

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• Subject: [galeon] Overview of Some OGC Web Services
• From: "Ben Domenico" <Ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 07:10:31 -0600

Hi all,

Arliss Whiteside, one of the leaders in the development of Open Geospatial
Consortium (OGC) interface specifications has drafted a concise summary of
some of the primary web services related to GALEON (Geo-interface for Air
Land Environment Oceans NetCDF).  The document includes descriptions of  WMS
(Web Map Service), WFS (Web Feature Service), WCS (Web Coverage Service),
CS-W (Catalog Service for the Web).  I've made a copy of it available at:

 http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dc6q6qjx_165d3drv2

There may be a better place for it in the long run, but this will get us
started.

I would add that there are another set of OGC specifications associated with
Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) that include Sensor Observation Service (SOS)
that are not described in Arliss's  summary.

-- Ben