[mapserver-commits] r8303 - trunk/docs

svn at osgeo.org svn at osgeo.org
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
===================================================================
--- 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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