Text Box: Geospatial  Interoperability Office
Geospatial  Interoperability Office
–Transaction (optional)
–LockFeature (optional)
Web Feature Service (WFS)
•WFS 1.0: 2002-09
•Scope: storage & retrieval of geographic
vector feature data (point/line/polygon)
•XML data encoding format:
Geography Markup Language (GML)
•Filter Specification: Restrict WFS
output based on user criteria
•Operations:
–GetCapabilities
–DescribeFeatureType
–GetFeature