The scope of this International Standard is as follows:
Identification and definition of the architecture patterns for service interfaces used for geographic information
and definition of the relationships to the Open Systems Environment model.
This International Standard presents a geographic services taxonomy and a list of example geographic
services placed in the services taxonomy.
This International Standard prescribes how to create a platform-neutral service specification, and how to
derive platform-specific service specifications that are conformant with this.
This International Standard provides guidelines for the selection and specification of geographic services from
both platform-neutral and platform-specific perspectives.