EN ISO 19109:2006

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-september-2006
Geografske informacije – Pravila za aplikacijsko shemo (ISO 19109:2005)
Geographic information - Rules for application schema (ISO 19109:2005)
Geoinformation - Regeln zur Erstellung von Anwendungsschemata (ISO 19109:2005)
Information géographique - Regles de schéma d'application (ISO 19109:2005)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN ISO 19109:2006
ICS:
07.040 Astronomija. Geodezija. Astronomy. Geodesy.
Geografija Geography
35.240.70 Uporabniške rešitve IT v IT applications in science
znanosti
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EUROPEAN STANDARD
EN ISO 19109
NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
July 2006
ICS 35.240.70
English Version
Geographic information - Rules for application schema (ISO
19109:2005)
Information géographique - Règles de schéma d'application Geoinformation - Regeln zur Erstellung von
(ISO 19109:2005) Anwendungsschemata (ISO 19109:2005)
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Foreword
The text of ISO 19109:2005 has been prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 211
"Geographic information/Geomatics” of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
and has been taken over as EN ISO 19109:2006 by Technical Committee CEN/TC 287
"Geographic Information", the secretariat of which is held by NEN.

This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of
an identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by January 2007, and conflicting national
standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by January 2007.

According to the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organizations of
the following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium,
Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary,
Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland,
Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.

Endorsement notice
The text of ISO 19109:2005 has been approved by CEN as EN ISO 19109:2006 without any
modifications.
INTERNATIONAL ISO
STANDARD 19109
First edition
2005-06-15
Geographic information — Rules for
application schema
Information géographique — Règles de schéma d'application

Reference number
ISO 19109:2005(E)
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ISO 19109:2005(E)
Contents Page
Foreword. iv
Introduction . v
1 Scope . 1
2 Conformance. 1
3 Normative references . 2
4 Terms and definitions. 2
5 Presentation and abbreviations . 4
5.1 Presentation . 4
5.2 Abbreviations . 5
6 Context. 5
6.1 Purpose of an application schema . 5
6.2 Rules for application schema. 5
6.3 Application schema supporting data interchange . 6
7 Principles for defining features. 8
7.1 Features . 8
7.2 Features and the application schema. 9
7.3 The General Feature Model. 10
7.4 Attributes of feature types . 16
7.5 Relationships between feature types . 18
7.6 Behaviour of feature types . 20
7.7 Constraints . 21
8 Rules for application schema. 21
8.1 The application modelling process. 21
8.2 The application schema . 22
8.3 Rules for application schema in UML. 24
8.4 Domain profiles of standard schemas in UML . 27
8.5 Rules for use of metadata schema . 29
8.6 Temporal rules . 33
8.7 Spatial rules. 39
8.8 Cataloguing rules. 49
8.9 Spatial referencing using geographic identifiers. 50
Annex A (normative) Abstract test suite. 53
Annex B (normative) The modelling approach and the General Feature Model . 57
Annex C (informative) Application schema in EXPRESS. 61
Annex D (informative) Application schema examples. 63
Bibliography . 71

ISO 19109:2005(E)
Foreword
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ISO 19109:2005(E)
Introduction
Any description of reality is always an abstraction, always partial, and always just one of many possible
“views”, depending on the application field.
The widespread application of computers and geographic information systems (GIS) has led to an increased
use of geographic data within multiple disciplines. With current technology as an enabler, society’s reliance on
such data is growing. Geographic datasets are increasingly being shared and exchanged. They are also used
for purposes other than those for which they were produced.
To ensure that data will be understood by both computer systems and users, the data structures for data
access and exchange must be fully documented. The interfaces between systems, therefore, need to be
defined with respect to data and operations, using the methods standardized in this International Standard.
For the construction of internal software and data storage within proprietary systems, any method may be
used that enables the standardized interfaces to be supported.
An application schema provides the formal description of the data structure and content required by one or
more applications. An application schema contains the descriptions of both geographic data and other related
data. A fundamental concept of geographic data is the feature.

INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO 19109:2005(E)

Geographic information — Rules for application schema
1 Scope
This International Standard defines rules for creating and documenting application schemas, including
principles for the definition of features.
The scope of this International Standard includes the following:
 conceptual modelling of features and their properties from a universe of discourse;
 definition of application schemas;
 use of the conceptual schema language for application schemas;
 transition from the concepts in the conceptual model to the data types in the application schema;
 integration of standardized schemas from other ISO geographi
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