Interface AuthorityFactory

All Superinterfaces:
Factory
All Known Subinterfaces:
CoordinateOperationAuthorityFactory, CRSAuthorityFactory, CSAuthorityFactory, DatumAuthorityFactory
All Known Implementing Classes:
Abstract_URI_AuthorityFactory, AbstractAuthorityFactory, AbstractAuthorityMediator, AbstractCachedAuthorityFactory, AbstractEpsgFactory, AbstractEpsgMediator, AccessDialectEpsgFactory, AllAuthoritiesFactory, AnsiDialectEpsgFactory, AuthorityFactoryAdapter, AutoCRSFactory, BufferedAuthorityFactory, CachedAuthorityDecorator, CachedCRSAuthorityDecorator, CartesianAuthorityFactory, CoordinateOperationFactoryUsingWKT, DeferredAuthorityFactory, DirectAuthorityFactory, DirectEpsgFactory, EPSGCRSAuthorityFactory, EsriExtension, FactoryUsingAnsiSQL, FactoryUsingSQL, FactoryUsingWKT, FallbackAuthorityFactory, HsqlDialectEpsgMediator, HTTP_AuthorityFactory, HTTP_URI_AuthorityFactory, IAUAuthorityFactory, IAULongitudeFirstFactory, LongitudeFirstEpsgDecorator, LongitudeFirstFactory, ManyAuthoritiesFactory, NetCDFCRSAuthorityFactory, OGCAPICRSFactory, OrderedAxisAuthorityFactory, OrderedAxisCRSAuthorityFactory, PropertyAuthorityFactory, PropertyCoordinateOperationAuthorityFactory, ThreadedAuthorityFactory, ThreadedEpsgFactory, ThreadedHsqlEpsgFactory, ThreadedPostgreSQLEpsgFactory, TransformedAuthorityFactory, UnnamedExtension, URN_AuthorityFactory, WebCRSFactory

public interface AuthorityFactory extends Factory
Base interface for all authority factories. An authority is an organization that maintains definitions of authority codes. An authority code is a compact string defined by an authority to reference a particular spatial reference object. For example the European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) maintains a database of coordinate systems, and other spatial referencing objects, where each object has a code number ID. For example, the EPSG code for a WGS84 Lat/Lon coordinate system is '4326'.
Since:
GeoAPI 1.0
Author:
Martin Desruisseaux (IRD)