[mapserver-commits] r8303 - trunk/docs
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Sun Dec 28 19:49:14 EST 2008
Author: tomkralidis
Date: 2008-12-28 19:49:14 -0500 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008)
New Revision: 8303
Modified:
trunk/docs/glossary.txt
Log:
add SOS def, and move tileindex to be alphabetically correct
Modified: trunk/docs/glossary.txt
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--- trunk/docs/glossary.txt 2008-12-29 00:19:15 UTC (rev 8302)
+++ trunk/docs/glossary.txt 2008-12-29 00:49:14 UTC (rev 8303)
@@ -120,21 +120,18 @@
.. seealso::
`Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefile>`_
+ SOS
+ `SOS <http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sos>`__ is an :term:`OGC`
+ standard which provides an API for managing deployed sensors and
+ retrieving sensor and observation data.
+
+ .. seealso::
+ :ref:`sos_server`
+
Spherical Mercator
`Spherical Mercator <http://docs.openlayers.org/spherical_mercator/#what-is-spherical-mercator>`__
is a term used to describe the :ref:`PROJECTION` used by many
commercial API providers.
-
- Tileindex
- A tileindex is a :term:`Shapefile` or other :term:`Vector` data
- source that contains footprints of :term:`Raster` data coverage.
- MapServer can use a tileindex to render a directory of raster
- data. The tileindex allows MapServer to only read the data that
- intersects the requested map extent, rather than reading all of the
- data.
-
- .. seealso::
- :ref:`tileindex`
SWF
`Shockwave Flash <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWF>`__ format that
@@ -157,6 +154,17 @@
all languages other than C/C++ and PHP. :ref:`mapscript` describes
these bindings.
+ Tileindex
+ A tileindex is a :term:`Shapefile` or other :term:`Vector` data
+ source that contains footprints of :term:`Raster` data coverage.
+ MapServer can use a tileindex to render a directory of raster
+ data. The tileindex allows MapServer to only read the data that
+ intersects the requested map extent, rather than reading all of the
+ data.
+
+ .. seealso::
+ :ref:`tileindex`
+
Vector
Geographic features described by geometries (point, line, polygon) on
a (typically) cartesian plane.
@@ -184,4 +192,4 @@
rendered map images from a service and return them to a client.
.. seealso::
- :ref:`wms_server` and :ref:`wms_client`
\ No newline at end of file
+ :ref:`wms_server` and :ref:`wms_client`
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