{"id":18159,"date":"2023-02-09T12:29:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T17:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ogc.org\/?post_type=standards&#038;p=4734"},"modified":"2025-09-17T05:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T05:05:13","slug":"sfo","status":"publish","type":"standards","link":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/standards\/sfo\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Features for OLE\/COM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-2-xl-font-size\"><strong>Simple Features for OLE\/COM<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>This specification addresses GIS specific interfaces above and interfaces that were available through Microsoft data access technologies in 1999. It is based on use of the OLE DB and ADO facilities provided by Microsoft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-group pattern-single-column is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color has-2-xl-font-size wp-elements-c81bb6ca8df4a9fb76581a9b45c4fe6b\"><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The three OpenGIS\u00ae Simple Features Implementation Specifications (one each for OLE\/COM, CORBA, and SQL) define interfaces that enable transparent access to geographic data held in heterogeneous processing systems on distributed computing platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Simple Feature Specification application programming interfaces (APIs) provide for publishing, storage, access, and simple operations on Simple Features (point, line, polygon, multi-point, etc). The purpose of these specifications is to describe interfaces to allow GIS software engineers to develop applications that expose functionality required to access and manipulate geospatial information comprising features with &#8216;simple&#8217; geometry using different technologies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview The three OpenGIS\u00ae Simple Features Implementation Specifications (one each for OLE\/COM, CORBA, and SQL) define interfaces that enable transparent access to geographic data held in heterogeneous processing systems on distributed computing platforms. The Simple Feature Specification application programming interfaces (APIs) provide for publishing, storage, access, and simple operations on Simple Features (point, line, polygon, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19355,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"standards-tag":[655],"class_list":["post-18159","standards","type-standards","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","standards-tag-simple-features-ole-com"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/standards\/18159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/standards"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/standards"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/standards\/18159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19357,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/standards\/18159\/revisions\/19357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"standards-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/standards-tag?post=18159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}