ISO 19109

Area	Geographic information
title	Geographic information - rules for creating application schemes
Latest edition	2006-09
ISO	19109

ISO 19109 Geographic information - Rules for application schema is the standard within the ISO family of standards for geographic information that defines the rules for creating application schemas. It has also been available as the German DIN EN ISO 19109 since September 2006 .

ISO 19109 is based on a general model for technical information (General Feature Model), the properties of which are specified in the standard. On this basis, principles for the definition of specialist information and specialist objects (features) are described.

In addition to describing the general modeling process, special rules are given for:

the creation of application schemes in UML
the creation of profiles of standardized application schemes for specific areas of application
the use of metadata schemas

There are also

Time rules
Spatial rules
Rules for creating data catalogs
Rules for establishing spatial reference through referencing using geographical identifiers (e.g. postcodes)

General Feature Model

The following drawing ( UML class diagram) provides an overview and introduction to the general model for specialist information :

General Feature Model overview

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Applications

ISO 19109 was e.g. B. observed when creating the AFIS-ALKIS-ATKIS model .