An internationally-adopted schema for describing geographic information and services. It provides information about the identification, the extent, the quality, the spatial and temporal schema, spatial reference, and distribution of digital geographic data.
Sponsored by the International Standards Organisation, the first edition of ISO 19115 was published in 2023.
An extension of ISO 19115 and the main changes are as follows:
— cross-references to other documents have been updated; in particular, ISO 19139:2007 has been updated to ISO/TS 19139-1:2019;
— components have been reallocated to the relevant primary International Standards, notably ISO 19115-1:2014, ISO 19115-2:2019 and ISO 19103:2015;
— additional packages and namespaces derived by the aggregation of packages defined in ISO 19115-1:2014 and ISO 19115-2:20091 have been removed;
— tables have been consolidated in order to reduce repetition of information and to collocate information concerning requirements, conformance tests and the clauses to which they refer;
— elements in the XML schemas for ISO 19115-1:2014 and ISO 19115-2:2019 have been reordered in order to align with the order of attributes in the associated data dictionaries. Appropriate XML stylesheets (XSLT) have been generated to assist in the transformation of XML records from records conforming to previous versions of the schemas. The conceptual models in the HMMG have been augmented to include the attribute ordering as set out in the data dictionaries in ISO 19115-1:2014 plus ISO 19115-1:2014/Amd 1:2018 and ISO 19115-1:2014/Amd 2:2020 and ISO 19115-2:2019.