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Recommend ESRI shapefile definitions for GeoSciML-Portrayal

Because the field names in GeoSciML-Portrayal are longer than 10 characters, you will not be able to have the full attribute (column) name for many of the properties if your portrayal data is loaded into an ESRI shapefile, which can be an issue in some WMS server software. To prevent truncated names, we are providing a recommended shapefile implementation with shorter field names. Field names are abbreviated to try and leave characters that convey the full name of the field; lower camel case typographic has been used, except that fields that contain URI’s end with ‘_uri’.

 

Table 4. Recommend shapefile definition for ContactView

XML field Name	Shapefile field name	Shapefile data type
identifier	identifier	String
name	name	String
description	descriptio	String
contactType	contactTyp	String
observationMethod	obsvMethod	String
positionalAccuracy	posAccur	String
source	source	String
contactType_uri	conTyp_uri	String
specification_uri	spec_uri	String
metadata_uri	metada_uri	String
genericSymbolizer	genericSym	String
shape	SHAPE	ESRI geometry

 

Table 5. Recommended shapefile definition for ShearDisplacementStructureView

XML field Name	Shapefile field name	Shapefile data type
identifier	identifier	String
name	name	String
description	descriptio	String
faultType	faultType	String
movementType	movmntType	String
deformationStyle	defrmStyle	String
displacement	displacmnt	String
geologicHistory	geolHistry	String
observationMethod	obsvMethod	String
positionalAccuracy	posAccur	String
source	source	String
faultType_uri	fltTyp_uri	String
movementType_uri	movTyp_uri	String
deformationStyle_uri	defStl_uri	String
representativeAge_uri	repAge_uri	String
representativeOlderAge_uri	oldAge_uri	String
representativeYoungerAge_uri	yngAge_uri	String
specification_uri	spec_uri	String
metadata_uri	metada_uri	String
genericSymbolizer	genericSym	String
shape	SHAPE	ESRI geometry

 

Table 6. Recommended shapefile definition for GeologicUnitView

XML field Name	Shapefile field name	Shapefile data type
identifier	identifier	String
name	name	String
description	descriptio	String
geologicUnitType	geoUnitTyp	String
rank	rank	String
lithology	lithology	String
geologicHistory	geolHistry	String
observationMethod	obsvMethod	String
positionalAccuracy	posAccur	String
source	source	String
geologicUnitType_uri	uniTyp_uri	String
representativeLithology_uri	repLth_uri	String
representativeAge_uri	repAge_uri	String
representativeOlderAge_uri	oldAge_uri	String
representativeYoungerAge_uri	yngAge_uri	String
specification_uri	spec_uri	String
metadata_uri	metada_uri	String
genericSymbolizer	genericSym	String
shape	SHAPE	ESRI geometry

Section last modified: 12 October 2015

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