Format
Geography Markup Language
Summary
- Name
- Geography Markup Language
- Identifiers
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- MIME: application/gml+xml
- PUID: x-fmt/227
- Format type
-
- GIS
- Text (Mark-up)
- 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
- File extensions
-
gml - Source
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Relationships
- Has lower priority than
- Has priority over
- Is previous version of
Internal signatures
Geography Markup Language
- Note
- ASCII header: <?xml version="1.0" , followed by gml namespace declaration xmlns:gml='http://www.opengis.net/gml
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
3C3F786D6C2076657273696F6E3D(22|27)312E30(22|27){0-320}786D6C6E733A676D6C3D(22|27)687474703A2F2F7777772E6F70656E6769732E6E65742F676D6C- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
Updated in V91
- Release date
- 25 July 2017
Geography Markup Language: Added format type GIS.
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Added in V55
- Release date
- 4 January 2012
Geography Markup Language: Format description information supplied by the Geospatial Multistate Access and Preservation Partnership (GeoMAPP).
Geography Markup Language: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.