The OGD Standard
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The OGD (Open Geospatial Database) Standard defines a format for the storage of geospatial information in a container that facilitates data sharing and object-oriented programming. We hope that it will become the favorite way to transfer a cohesive or comprehensive set of geospatial data between desktop GIS systems.
The OGD standard will specify an API that can be implemented in different programming languages. It will allow for the storage of spatial features, non-spatial features, geometries, topology and will support services like spatial indexing and spatial queries.
The OGD implementation will be developed in conjuntion with its first real world application. This real world application will be part of the OpenJUMP-Ex project, which will use a Java implementation of the OGD as its primary data store. This implementation will utilize the Polaris Geometry Library and LocusXML for its internal, persistent storage. This will allow OGD implementations in any programming language with XML support.
[The development of clear, simple, easy-to-understand, and "open" standards for geospatial data and free (as in "open source") software.
