Gazetteer Service - Application Profile of the Web Feature Service Best Practice 1.0

OGC Document ID:  11-122r1
Document Version: 1.0.0
Document type:    OGC Best Practice
Date Published:   2012-02-17
Online Reference: http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/bp

This document defines a Gazetteer Service profile of the OGC Web Feature
Service Standard. The OGC Gazetteer Service allows a client to search and
retrieve elements of a georeferenced vocabulary of well-known place-names. This
profile extends the WFS interface in a way that a client is able to - Determine
if a WFS implementation is acting as a Gazetteer Service. - Query the Gazetteer
Service in order to retrieve place-name features without closer examination of
the feature type definitions - Access metadata about the gazetteer(s) provided
by the service - Update place-name features using WFS transactions - Fetch
place-name features that have Parent-Child relationships and then follow those
links 

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2012-02-17  Panagiotis (Peter) A. Vretanos, Jeff Harrison
  * Published WFS Gaz Profile 1.0 from 11-122r1

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