Reference document

Org
OGC
Pubnum
02-070
Date
2002-09-19
Version
1.0
Title
OpenGIS Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) Profile of the Web Map Service (WMS) Implementation Specification

Applicability

The OpenGIS Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) Profile of the OpenGIS Web Map Service (WMS) Encoding 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 OpenGIS Symbology Encoding Standard (SE) provides this language, while the SLD profile of WMS enables application of SE to WMS layers using extensions of WMS operations. Additionally, SLD defines an operation for standardized access to legend symbols.

Responsible Party

Name
NATO Communications and Information Agency

Status

URI
https://www.ogc.org/standards/sld

History

Flag Date RFC Version
added 2014-11-25 8-5 9
deleted 2017-01-26 9-21 10
changed 2017-04-19 9-15 10
changed 2022-12-20 14-62 15
changed 2023-03-23 14-73 15
UUID
2a6b543c-2a97-48b5-a4d4-6e135a204ac0

Relationships

This standard is used by the following service profiles: