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Summary
Name	Geography Markup Language
Version
Other names	GML
Identifiers	MIME: application/gml+xml PUID: x-fmt/227
Family
Classification	GIS, Text (Mark-up)
Disclosure
Description	The Geography Markup Language (GML) is the XML grammar defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) to express geographical features. GML serves as a modeling language for geographic systems as well as an open interchange format for geographic transactions on the Internet. Full specifications can be found at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/gml
Orientation	Text
Byte order
Related file formats	Has lower priority than XML Schema Definition Has lower priority than Geography Markup Language (3.2) Has priority over Extensible Markup Language (1.0) Is previous version of Geography Markup Language (3.2)
Technical Environment
Released
Supported until
Format Risk
Developed by	None.
Supported by	None.
Source	Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Source date	02 Aug 2005
Source description	Format description information supplied by the Geospatial Multistate Access and Preservation Partnership (GeoMAPP), a grant funded collaboration sponsored by the National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP) of the Library of Congress, involving archives staff from North Carolina, Kentucky, Montana, and Utah state archives. Additional information supplied by Ordnance Survey. Mime type corrected to application/gml+xml 26/09/2012
Last updated	26 Sep 2012
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