EN ISO 19117:2006

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-september-2006
Geografske informacije – Prikazi in opisi geografskih podatkov (ISO 19117:2005)
Geographic information - Portrayal (ISO 19117:2005)
Geoinformation - Präsentation (ISO 19117:2005)
Information géographique - Présentation (ISO 19117:2005)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN ISO 19117:2006
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 19117
NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
July 2006
ICS 35.240.70
English Version
Geographic information - Portrayal (ISO 19117:2005)
Information géographique - Présentation (ISO 19117:2005) Geoinformation - Präsentation (ISO 19117:2005)
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Foreword
The text of ISO 19117:2005 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 19117:2006 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standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by January 2007.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 19117:2005 has been approved by CEN as EN ISO 19117:2006 without any
modifications.
INTERNATIONAL ISO
STANDARD 19117
First edition
2005-06-01
Geographic information — Portrayal
Information géographique — Présentation

Reference number
ISO 19117:2005(E)
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ISO 19117:2005(E)
Contents Page
Foreword. iv
Introduction . v
1 Scope. 1
2 Conformance. 1
3 Normative references. 1
4 Terms and definitions. 1
5 Abbreviated terms. 4
6 Unified Modeling Language (UML). 4
6.1 Notations. 4
6.2 UML model stereotypes. 5
7 Portrayal mechanism. 5
7.1 Introduction. 5
7.2 Priority attribute. 6
7.3 Portray nothing. 6
7.4 Default portrayal specification. 6
7.5 Annotation. 7
7.6 Overview of portrayal . 7
8 Portrayal schema. 8
8.1 Overview. 8
8.2 Portrayal service. 9
8.3 Portrayal catalogue package. 9
8.4 Portrayal specification package. 13
8.5 Complex symbols. 16
8.6 Portrayal of textual data . 17
8.7 Default portrayal specification. 18
8.8 Representation of symbols. 19
Annex A (normative) Abstract test suite. 20
Annex B (informative) Examples. 22

ISO 19117:2005(E)
Foreword
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ISO 19117 was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 211, Geographic information/Geomatics.
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ISO 19117:2005(E)
Introduction
This International Standard is an abstract document and is not intended for direct implementation. It gives
general guidelines to the application developers about the mechanism to be used to portray the feature
instances of a dataset. The portrayal mechanism described makes it possible to have general rules valid for
the whole dataset, and at the same time rules valid for a specific value of a feature attribute only. Different
computer graphics standards use different attributes to visualize geometric primitives. For example, a line can
be distinguished by thickness, width, colour, stippling, anti-aliasing, etc. This International Standard therefore
includes a mechanism for declaring portrayal attributes as part of the portrayal specification.
In some cases whole feature classes have to be referenced and portrayed in a specific way, e.g. as symbols
on nautical charts. Several symbol standards exist, and without a portrayal standard the application would
have to set up a separate interface to each of these standards. With this International Standard all the
supported symbol standards can be handled in a uniform way.
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO 19117:2005(E)

Geographic information — Portrayal
1 Scope
This International Standard defines a schema describing the portrayal of geographic information in a form
understandable by humans. It includes the methodology for describing symbols and mapping of the schema to
an application schema. It does not include standardization of cartographic symbols, and their geometric and
functional description.
2 Conformance
Any portrayal catalogue and portrayal schema describing the portrayal of geographic information claiming
conformance with this International Standard shall pass all the requirements of the abstract test suite
presented in Annex A.
3 Normative references
The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this document. For dated
references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced
document (including any amendments) applies.
ISO 19101, Geographic information — Reference model
1)
ISO/TS 19103:— , Geographic information — Conceptual schema language
ISO 19107:2003, Geographic information — Spatial schema
1)
ISO 19109:— , Geographic information — Rules for application schema
ISO 19115:2003, Geographic information — Metadata
ISO/IEC 19501:2005, Information technology — Open Distributed Processing — Unified Modeling Language
(UML) Version 1.4.2
4 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply.
4.1
annotation
any marking on illustrative material for the purpose of clarification
NOTE Numbers, letters, symbols, and signs are examples of annotation.

1) To be published.
ISO 19117:2005(E)
4.2
class
description of a set of objects that share the same attributes, operations, methods, relationships, and
semantics
[ISO/TS 19103]
NOTE A class may use a set of interface
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