Geographic Information Data Standard Applied in the Software Development Process

Abstract

Geographic information is more and more important in our information systems development. The geographic information data standards are essential and indispensable when developing the GIS. To make those standards taking effect we need to give a clear roadmap on how to combine the geographic data standards and the software development process. These articles first introduces the concept of the geographic information data standards, then describe how to apply these standards in the software developing process and at last gives the DIDs needed to document the software requirements and software designs according to MIL-STD-498 with GDDMS as an example.