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New GMLJP2 standard: software architect Michael Gerlek details about how spatial reference...

By Gerlek, Michael
Publication: GEO: connexion
Date: Friday, September 1 2006

The XML-based Geography Markup Language (GML) has already been approved as an official standard by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and endorsed by the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) and other organizations. But GML may achieve its highest calling when used inside another standard, JPEG 2000.

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You've probably heard about JPEG 2000 by now: "JP2" is an ISO-standard image format which for a few years now has been steadily gaining traction in a number of technically-demanding markets. A number of applications in our own G

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