{"id":18161,"date":"2023-02-09T12:36:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T17:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ogc.org\/?post_type=standards&#038;p=4740"},"modified":"2025-09-17T05:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T05:09:12","slug":"sld","status":"publish","type":"standards","link":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/standards\/sld\/","title":{"rendered":"Styled Layer Descriptor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-2-xl-font-size\"><strong>Styled Layer Descriptor<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>This standard defines an encoding that extends the WMS standard to allow user-defined symbolization and coloring of geographic feature and coverage data.<\/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 OpenGIS\u00ae Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) Profile of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ogc.org\/standards\/wms\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenGIS\u00ae Web Map Service (WMS)<\/a> Interface Standard defines an encoding that extends the WMS standard to allow user-defined symbolization and coloring of geographic feature and coverage data. SLD addresses the need for users and software to be able to control the visual portrayal of the geospatial data. The ability to define styling rules requires a styling language that the client and server can both understand. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ogc.org\/standards\/se\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenGIS\u00ae Symbology Encoding Standard<\/a> (SE) provides this language, while the SLD profile of WMS enables the application of SE to WMS layers using extensions of WMS operations. Additionally, SLD defines an operation for standardized access to legend symbols.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview The OpenGIS\u00ae Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) Profile of the OpenGIS\u00ae Web Map Service (WMS) Interface Standard defines an encoding that extends the WMS standard to allow user-defined symbolization and coloring of geographic feature and coverage data. SLD addresses the need for users and software to be able to control the visual portrayal of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19361,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"standards-tag":[656],"class_list":["post-18161","standards","type-standards","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","standards-tag-styled-layer-descriptor"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/standards\/18161","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=18161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/standards\/18161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19362,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/standards\/18161\/revisions\/19362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"standards-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/standards-tag?post=18161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}