java开发者从0gis——一些术语

该文列出一些术语或缩写以后陆续会追加 

WMS：在gis这块，wms的意思是Web Map Service 。（并非warehouse mananagement system仓库管理系统）。它的英文定义如下

Web Mapping Service (WMS)
OpenGIS Specification that standardizes the way in which Web clients request maps. Clients request maps from a WMS instance in terms of named layers and provide parameters such as the size of the returned map as well as the spatial reference system to be used in drawing the map.

A Web Map Service can:

1. Produce a map (as a picture, as a series of graphical elements, or as a packaged set of geographic feature data);
2. Answer basic queries about the content of the map; and
3. Tell a client what maps it can produce and which of those can be queried further.

In contrast with a Web Coverage Service, this service is not intended to provide access to the original unprocessed data.

A Web Map Service may act as a client by combining a number of images served by other WMS servers, and it may also accomodate an extension called a Styled Layer Descriptor.

It may also offer the capability to restrict which features are displayed, through the use of a filter as defined by the Filter Encoding specification.

Complete description 

官方参考

http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wms

PostGIS

PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database. In effect, PostGIS "spatially enables" the PostgreSQL server, allowing it to be used as a backend spatial database for geographic information systems (GIS), much like ESRI's SDE or Oracle's Spatial extension. PostGIS follows the OpenGIS "Simple Features Specification for SQL" and has been certified as compliant with the "Types and Functions" profile.

PostgreSQL 是一种对象-关系型数据库管理系统（ORDBMS），也是目前功能最强大、特性最丰富和最复杂的自由软件数据库系统。它起源于伯克利（BSD）的数据库研究计划，目前是最重要的开源数据库产品开发项目之一， 有着非常广泛的用户。PostGIS在对象关系型数据库PostgreSQL上增加了存储管理空间数据的能力，相当于Oracle的spatial部分。PostGIS最大的特点是符合并且实现了OpenGIS的一些规范，是最著名的开源GIS数据库。

参考

http://postgis.refractions.net/