This European Prestandard establishes a schema for spatial referencing using geographic identifiers.
It specifies how a system of geographic identifiers is described, and defines the attributes of a location
and the contents of a gazetteer of locations. Spatial referencing based on coordinates is outside the
scope of this standard.
This European Prestandard is applicable not only to digital data, but also to other forms of geographic
data such as maps, charts and textual documents.