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Alistair Ritchie edited this page Jan 9, 2019
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Version: 2.0.1 Released: 2013 Documentation: http://anzsoil.org/anzsoilml/
The current version of ANZSoilML is a Geography Mark-up Language (GML) Application Schema. This approach involves the definition and provision of 'Features' (broadly speaking physical things) that are of interest when dealing with soils. These include (in italics):
- Soil Profiles as made up of Soils and their Horizons
- Soil Landscape Features (e.g. Topography, Climatic Setting and Vegetation)
- Soil Sites
- Soil Samples and Specimens
- Laboratory Measurements
ANZSoilML has focussed on defining the Features specific to soil and imported and extended other Application Schema:
- Observations and Measurements 2.0 (O&M) - soil samples and laboratory measurements
- GeoScience Mark-up Language 3.0 (GeoSciML) - soil composition and parent material
The use of GML Application Schema has these technical implications:
- GML is an XML grammar therefore XML documents are provided by default
- The physical model for the XML documents is provided as a collection of XML Schema Documents (XSDs) (link)
- Documents are mainly provided via web services conforming to the OGC Web Feature Service (WFS) specification
- Documents may be accessed via URLs acting as an identifier for a Feature (so called HTTP URIs) - these may proxy or redirect to a WFS request or a static document