Recommended reading on spatial topics

For a good primer on the different approaches that are used to map and measure the earth's surface (geodesy), and the major concepts surrounding coordinate (or spatial) reference systems, go to www.epsg.org/guides/index.html and select Geodetic Awareness.
OGC OpenGIS Implementation Specification for Geographic information - Simple feature access: www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sfs
International Standard ISO/IEC 13249-3:2006: www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=38651
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 Specification: www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
Geographic Markup Language (GML) specification: www.opengeospatial.org/standards/gml
KML specification: www.opengeospatial.org/standards/kml
JavaScript Object Notation (JSON): json.org
GeoJSON specification: geojson.org/geojson-spec.html

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