Object Oriented Programming

Object oriented programming
Schach, Stephen (2006). Object-Oriented and Classical Software Engineering, Seventh Edition. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-073-19126-4.
Abadi, Martin; Luca Cardelli (1998). A Theory of Objects. Springer-Verlag.

An application programming interface (API) is a set of subroutines (organized as object oriented programming) designed to perform a specific task. GIS APIs are designed to manage GIS data for its delivery to a web browser client from a GIS server.

In recent times, the debate over object oriented data models has been diffused somewhat by distinguishing between object oriented analysis and design (OOAD) methods, and object oriented programming (OOP) languages and databases (Booch, 1996).

Current GIS Market (Chrisman/U of Washington) -- Important issues (e.g. data structure, database management, functions/operations); GIS World Chart and unaddressed issues; object oriented programming; etc.

To fulfil the requirements of managing, processing and storing very different data types the OGM should have an object oriented database structure and should be constructed by object oriented programming tools.

See also: Information, GIS, Object, Model, Network