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Styled Layer Descriptor

TAP Endorsed Specification
Description
 

A Styled Layer Descriptor allows a client to specify custom styles (such as colour and feature symbolization) that a Web Map Service will use to render a map layer.

Complete description

Implementation Specification
 
Version
Date
Location
1.0  
2002.09.19  

Geoconnections
styled_layer_descriptor_1_0.pdf

Open Geospatial Consortium
02-070.pdf

 
Status
 
2002.11.12 Endorsed by the Geoconnections Technology Advisory Panel
Other Info
 

The Styled Layer Description specification was developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium.

 

effective 2003.01.06