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This International Standard defines rules for creating and documenting application schemas, including principles for the definition of features. The scope of this International Standard includes the following: -conceptual modelling of features and their properties from a universe of discourse; -definition of application schemas; -use of the conceptual schema language for application schemas; -transition from the concepts in the conceptual model to the data types in the application schema; -integration of standardized schemas from other ISO geographic information standards with the application schema. The following are outside the scope: -choice of one particular conceptual schema language for application schemas; -definition of any particular application schema; -representation of feature types and their properties in a feature catalogue; -representation of metadata; -rules for mapping one application schema to another; -implementation of the application schema in a computer environment; -computer system and application software design; -programming.