%0 Journal Article
%4 sid.inpe.br/iris@1912/2005/07.19.21.36.58
%2 sid.inpe.br/iris@1912/2005/07.19.21.37
%@issn 0302-9743
%F 8904
%T Interoperability in practice: problems in semantic conversion from current technology to OpenGIS
%D 1999
%9 journal article
%A Cāmara, Gilberto,
%A Thome, Rogerio,
%A Freitas, Ubirajara Moura de,
%A Vieira, Monteiro Antonio Miguel,
%B Lecture Notes in Computer Science
%V 1580
%P 129-138
%K GEOPROCESSAMENTO, SISTEMAS DE INFORMACAO GEOGRAFICA, GIS, SEMANTICA, SISTEMAS OPERACIONAIS, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, OPERATING SYSTEMS, SEMANTICS.
%X This work investigates the practical issue of mapping existing GIS to the OpenGIS standards. We describe the data models used in three systems (MGE,ARC/INFO and SPRING)and analyse the problems involved when mapping them to OpenGIS. Our conclusion is that the OpenGIS standard has not been defined in a formal and unequivocal way, and therefore, there are indefinitions and competing alternatives for mapping existing GIS systems into the proposed standard.
%@language en
%3 1999_camara5.pdf
%O International Conference on Interoperable Operating Systems, 2, <1999>, Zurique.