Geographic Linkage Service (GLS) Specification

Citation

Schut P, Geng X, Caron R, Townend P, Turner A, Ismail M, Li H, You J, Swan J, Low B, Muro-Medrano PR, Bejar-Hernandez R, Lopez-Pellicer J, Gayan D, Higgins C & Koutroumpas M (2009) Geographic Linkage Service (GLS) Specification. Geospatial Consortium, Inc. https://portal.opengeospatial.org/modules/admin/license_agreement.php?suppressHeaders=0&access_license_id=3&target=http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=32111

Abstract
This document is the result of work first undertaken to support the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI), and in particular the Canadian Soil Information System (CanSIS), and Canada's National Forest Information Service (NFIS). The standard was implemented as a prototype in 2002 by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC). Version 0.8.1 was approved by OGC in 2004 as a set of two discussion documents, which towards the end of 2005 were found to be among the top 10 downloads from the OGC website. An Interoperability Experiment was subsequently initiated by the organizations identified below, to further refine the concept and associated interfaces, and resulted in the production of version 0.10.2. The final report of the Interoperability Experiment recommended a number of additional improvements to the specifications including that they be merged into a single interface specification. This version addresses those recommendations.