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PostGIS ajoute le support d'objets géographique à la base de données PostgreSQL. En effet, PostGIS "spatialise" le serverur PostgreSQL, ce qui permet de l'utiliser comme une base de données SIG.

Maintenu à jour, en fonction de nos disponibilités et des diverses sorties des outils que nous testons, nous vous proposons l'ensemble de nos travaux publiés en langue française.

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8    CRS
9        A "coordinate reference system". The combination of a geographic coordinate system and a projected coordinate system.
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11    GDAL
12        `Geospatial Data Abstraction Library <http://gdal.org>`_, pronounced "GOO-duhl", an open source raster access library with support for a large number of formats, used widely in both open source and proprietary software.
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14    GeoJSON
15        "Javascript Object Notation", a text format that is very fast to parse in Javascript virtual machines. In spatial, the extended specification for `GeoJSON <http://geojson.org>`_ is commonly used.
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17    GIS
18        `Geographic information system <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_information_system>`_ or geographical information system captures, stores, analyzes, manages, and presents data that is linked to location.
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20    GML
21        `Geography Markup Language <http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/gml>`_.  GML is the :term:`OGC` standard XML format for representing spatial feature information.
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23    JSON
24        "Javascript Object Notation", a text format that is very fast to parse in Javascript virtual machines. In spatial, the extended specification for `GeoJSON <http://geojson.org>`_ is commonly used.
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26    JSTL
27        "JavaServer Page Template Library", a tag library for :term:`JSP` that encapsulates many of the standard functions handled in JSP (database queries, iteration, conditionals) into a terse syntax.
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29    JSP
30        "JavaServer Pages" a scripting system for Java server applications that allows the interleaving of markup and Java procedural code.
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32    KML
33        "Keyhole Markup Language", the spatial XML format used by Google Earth. Google Earth was originally written by a company named "Keyhole", hence the (now obscure) reference in the name.
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35    OGC
36        The Open Geospatial Consortium <http://opengeospatial.org/> (OGC) is a standards organization that develops specifications for geospatial services.
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38    OSGeo
39         The Open Source Geospatial Foundation <http://osgeo.org> (OSGeo) is a non-profit foundation dedicated to the promotion and support of open source geospatial software.
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41    SFSQL
42        The `Simple Features for SQL <http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sfs>`_ (SFSQL) specification from the :term:`OGC` defines the types and functions that make up a standard spatial database.
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44    SLD
45        The `Styled Layer Descriptor <http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sld>`_ (SLD) specification from the :term:`OGC` defines an format for describing cartographic rendering of vector features.
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47    SRID
48        "Spatial reference ID" a unique number assigned to a particular "coordinate reference system". The PostGIS table **spatial_ref_sys** contains a large collection of well-known srid values and text representations of the coordinate reference systems.
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50    SQL
51        "Structured query language" is the standard means for querying relational databases. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL.
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53    SQL/MM
54        `SQL Multimedia <http://www.fer.hr/_download/repository/SQLMM_Spatial-_The_Standard_to_Manage_Spatial_Data_in_Relational_Database_Systems.pdf>`_; includes several sections on extended types, including a substantial section on spatial types.
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56    SVG
57        "Scalable vector graphics" is a family of specifications of an XML-based file format for describing two-dimensional vector graphics, both static and dynamic (i.e. interactive or animated). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics.
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59    WFS
60        The `Web Feature Service <http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wfs>`_ (WFS) specification from the :term:`OGC` defines an interface for reading and writing geographic features across the web.
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62    WMS
63        The `Web Map Service <http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wms>`_ (WMS) specification from the :term:`OGC` defines an interface for requesting rendered map images across the web.
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65    WKB
66        "Well-known binary". Refers to the binary representation of geometries described in the Simple Features for SQL specification (:term:`SFSQL`).
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68    WKT
69        "Well-known text". Can refer either to the text representation of geometries, with strings starting "POINT", "LINESTRING", "POLYGON", etc. Or can refer to the text representation of a :term:`CRS`, with strings starting "PROJCS", "GEOGCS", etc.  Well-known text representations are :term:`OGC` standards, but do not have their own specification documents. The first descriptions of WKT (for geometries and for CRS) appeared in the :term:`SFSQL` 1.0 specification.
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