This International Standard defines rules for creating and documenting application schemas, including principles for the definition of features.
The scope of this International Standard includes the following:
conceptual modelling of features and their properties from a universe of discourse;
definition of application schemas;
use of the conceptual schema language for application schemas;
transition from the concepts in the conceptual model to the data types in the application schema;
integration of standardized schemas from other ISO geographic information standards with the application schema.
The following are outside the scope:
choice of one particular conceptual schema language for application schemas;
definition of any particular application schema;
representation of feature types and their properties in a feature catalogue;
representation of metadata;
rules for mapping one application schema to another;
implementation of the application schema in a computer environment;
computer system and application software design;
programming.