Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
Acronyms and Abbreviations
I thought it would be pertinent to leave you with a list of some of the acronyms you've seen
throughout the topic. Like any industry, there are many acronyms to be familiar with, and
even though I've tried to explain them where possible, a summary list never hurts.
EPSG
European Petroleum Survey Group
ESRI
Environmental Systems Research Institute
EWKT
Extended well-known text
GIS
Geographic information system
GML
Geography markup language
GPS
Geographic positioning system; geographic positioning satellite; global positioning system
KML
Keyhole markup language
NMEA
National Marine Electronics Association
OGC
Open Geospatial Consortium
OSGeo
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
SRID
Spatial reference identifier
WKB
Well-known binary, the binary format of data in a GIS database
WKT
Well-known text, the text format of data in a GIS database
