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Geospatial Web Services, Open Standards, and Advances in Interoperability: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography
(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2010-03-09)
This paper is designed to help GIS librarians and information specialists follow developments in the emerging field of geospatial Web services (GWS). When built using open standards, GWS permits users to dynamically access, ...
Problems That Arise When Providing Geographic Coordinate Information for Cataloged Maps
(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2007-10-16)
Maps are not always published with coordinates. However, by following strict guidelines in the 034 and 255 MARC fields, and by using cataloging rules, one can interpolate this data in order to provide coordinates in ...
Unlocking the Mysteries of the Bounding Box
(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2005-08-29)
Few geospatial data representations are more basic than the bounding box; a rectangle surrounding a geographic feature or dataset. Bounding boxes are a key component of geospatial metadata and lie at the heart of many ...