Forestry GIS and papiNet
I had the opportunity to spend some time with ESRI (one of the early providers of GIS services and a key current provider).
- Visit http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=downloads.dataModels.gateway for a list of all the data models for all the industry segements.
- Use this link (http://downloads2.esri.com/support/datamodels/Forestry/forestry_datamodel.pdf) for a description of their high level data model,
- At resources.esri.com you can find links to some of their more formal documentation and tools.
Here’s some additional information of note. ESRI had developed something called ArcXML as their contribution to the XML world. ArcXML is no longer being used (you will find numerous mentions of it on the internet, still). OpenGIS is what they are using. As near as I can tell OpenGIS has something they call GML which can be found at http://schemas.opengis.net/gml/3.1.1/base/.
It is important that papiNet make use of the excellent work in the GIS field.