Geographic Information Standards: Overview of International Activities

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Geographic Information StandardsOverview of
International Activities

• Jean Brodeur, Chair CAC-ISO/TC211

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Presentation Outline

• Introduction
• ISO/TC 211
• Presentation
• Members
• Structure
• Activities
• Concluding remarks

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Introduction

• Canada has three decades of history in
  standardization in geographic information
• Sharing and using geographic information
  appropriately has always been a concern of the
  Canadian geographic information community
• CCOGIF (Canadian Council on Geomatics Interchange
  Format)
• MDIF (Map Data Interchange Format)
• DIGEST (Digital Geographic Exchange Standard)
• S57 (formerly DX-90, hydrography)
• SAIF (Spatial Archive and Interchange Format)
• ISO19100
• National and North American Profiles of the
  ISO19100 suite of standards
• Canadian standardization activities in GI
  (CGSB-CoG) are harmonized with international
  activities at ISO/TC211

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ISO/TC 211

• Started in 1994
• From a Canadian initiative
• To develop a family of international standards on
  geographic information
• Canadian participation is led by the Canadian
  Advisory Committee to ISO/TC211 (CAC-ISO/TC211)

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Why GI International Standards?

• To support the understanding and usage of
  geographic information
• To increase the availability, access,
  integration, and sharing of geographic
  information, i.e. to enable interoperability of
  geospatially enabled computer systems and data
• To support the establishment of geospatial data
  infrastructures at local, regional and global
  level
• To contribute to a unified approach to address
  global, ecological, and humanitarian problems
• To contribute to sustainable development

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Scope of ISO/TC 211

• Aims to establish a structured set of standards
  for information concerning objects or phenomena
  that are directly or indirectly associated with a
  location relative to the Earth
• May specify, for geographic information, methods,
  tools and services for data management (including
  definition and description), for acquiring,
  processing, analyzing, accessing, presenting and
  transferring such data in digital/electronic form
  between different users, systems and locations
• Shall link to appropriate standards for
  information technology and data where possible,
  and provide a framework for the development of
  sector-specific applications using geographic data

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Who is ISO/TC 211?...member list

• 30 active members (P-members)
• Australia Austria Belgium Canada China Czech
  Rep. Denmark Ecuador Finland Germany Italy
  Japan Republic of Korea Malaysia Morocco
  Netherlands New Zealand Norway Peru Portugal
  Russian Federation Saudi Arabia Serbia
  Montenegro South Africa Spain Sweden
  Switzerland Thailand United Kingdom United
  States of America
• 31 observing members (O-members)
• Argentina Bahrain Brunei Darussalam Colombia
  Croatia Cuba Estonia France Greece Hong
  Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Isl.
  Rep. of Iran Ireland Jamaica Kenya Mauritius
  Oman Pakistan Philippines Poland Slovakia
  Romania Slovenia Tanzania Turkey Ukraine
  Uruguay Zimbabwe

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Who is ISO/TC 211?...member list

• 25 external liaisons
• CEOS DGIWG ESA EuroSDR FAO/UN FIG GSDI
  IAG ICA ICAO IEEE Geoscience and Remote
  Sensing Society IHB ISCGM ISPRS JRC OGC
  OGP PAIGH PCGIAP PC IDEA SCAR UN Economic
  Commission for Africa UN Economic Commission for
  Europe, Statistical Division UNGEGN UNGIWG WMO
• 17 internal liaisons
• ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 Coded character sets ISO/IEC
  JTC 1/SC 24 Computer graphics and image
  processing ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31 Automatic
  identification and data capture techniques
  ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 Data Management and
  Interchange ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 35 User interfaces
  ISO/TC 20 /SC 13 Space data and information
  transfer systems ISO/TC 23/SC 19 Agricultural
  electronics ISO/TC 46/WG 2 - Coding of country
  names and related entities ISO/TC 59/SC 13
  Organization of information about construction
  works ISO/TC 69 Applications of statistical
  methods ISO/TC 82 Mining (Stand by) ISO/TC 130
  Graphic Technology ISO/TC 154 Processes, data
  elements and documents in commerce, industry and
  administration ISO/TC 184/SC 4 Industrial data
  and global manufacturing languages ISO/TC 204
  Transport Information and Control Systems ISO/TC
  207 Environmental management ISO/TC 223 Civil
  Defence ISO/TC 82 Mining (stand by)

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ISO/TC 211 structure
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Special groups

• Advisory group on strategy
• HMMG Harmonized Model Maintenance Group -
  harmonisation des modèles UML
• Advisory group on outreach
• JAG - ISO/TC211 / OGC Joint Advisory Group
• TMG - Terminology maintenance group
• Task force to support convergence between
  relevant ISO/TC 204 and ISO/TC 211 projects
• Task force to support convergence between
  relevant JTC 1/SC 24 and ISO/TC 211 projects

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Cooperation

• Why ?
• common objectives
• similar work programmes
• complementary approaches
• joining resources gives strength
• avoiding inconsistent standards - de jure / de
  facto / industrial
• and more

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Cooperation
has led to establishment of cooperative
agreements betweenISO/TC 211 and liaison
organizations
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ISO/TC 211 Standard Activities
Organization
Content (data)

• Standard development, e.g. Reference model

• Documentation

Access,technology
Education

• Qualifications andcertification of personnel

• Access and services

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ISO/TC 211 Projects (1)

• ISO 67091983 - Standard representation of
  latitude, longitude and altitude for geographic
  point locations
• ISO 6709 - Standard representation of latitude,
  longitude and altitude for geographic point
  locations Rev.
• ISO 19101 - Reference model
• ISO 19101-2 - Reference Model Part 2 Imagery
• ISO/TS 19103 - Conceptual schema language
• Revision of ISO/TS 19103 Geographic information
  Conceptual Schema Language
• ISO 19104 - Terminology
• ISO 19105 - Conformance and testing
• ISO 19106 - Profiles
• ISO 19107 - Spatial schema
• ISO 19108 - Temporal schema
• ISO 19109 - Rules for application schema

• ISO 19110 - Feature cataloguing methodology
• 19110 Amd 1 - Methodology for feature cataloguing
  - Amendment 1
• ISO 19111 - Spatial referencing by coordinates
• ISO 19111 - Spatial referencing by coordinates
  Revision
• 19111-2 Geographic information -- Spatial
  referencing by coordinates -- Part 2 Extension
  for parametric value
• ISO 19112 - Spatial referencing by geographic
  identifiers
• ISO 19113 - Quality principles
• Revision of ISO 19113
• ISO 19114 - Quality evaluation procedures
• ISO 19115 Metadata
• ISO 19115-2 Metadata Part 2 Extensions for
  imagery and gridded data
• ISO 19116 - Positioning services
• ISO 19117 Portrayal

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ISO/TC 211 Projects (2)

• ISO 19118 Encoding
• 19118 rev Geographic information -- Encoding
• ISO 19119 - Services
• ISO/TR 19120 - Functional standards
• ISO/TR 19121 - Imagery and gridded data
• ISO/TR 19122 - Qualifications and certification
  of personnel
• ISO 19123 - Schema for coverage geometry and
  functions
• ISO/RS 19124 - Imagery and gridded data
  components
• ISO 19125 - Simple feature access Part 1-2
• 19126 - Feature concept dictionaries and
  registers
• ISO 19127 - Geodetic codes and parameters
• ISO 19128 - Web Map Server Interface
• ISO 19129 - Imagery, gridded and coverage data
  framework
• ISO 19130 - Sensor and data model for imagery and
  gridded data

• ISO 19131 - Data product specification
• ISO 19132 - Location based services possible
  standards
• ISO 19133 - Location based services tracking and
  navigation
• ISO 19134 - Multimodal location based services
  for routing and navigation
• ISO 19135 - Procedures for item registration
• ISO 19136 - Geography Markup Language (GML)
• ISO 19137 - Generally used profiles of the
  spatial schema and of similar important other
  schemas
• ISO 19138 - Data quality measures
• ISO 19139 - Metadata Implementation
  specification
• ISO 19141 - Schema for moving features
• ISO 19142 - Web Feature Service
• ISO 19143 - Filter encoding
• Stage 0 - Am. to ISO 191132002 - Quality
  principles and ISO 191152003 Metadata

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ISO/TC 211 Projects (3)

• ISO 19144 - Classification Systems Part 1
  Classification system structurePart 2 Land
  Cover Classification System LCCS
• ISO 19145 - Registry of representations of
  geographic point location
• ISO 19146 - Cross-domain vocabularies
• ISO19147 - Location based services -- Transfer
  Nodes
• ISO19148 - Location based services -- Linear
  Referencing System
• ISO19149 - Rights expression language for
  geographic information GeoREL
• ISO 19150 Ontology
• ISO 19151 Dynamic Position Identification
  Scheme for Ubiquitous Space (u-Position)

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Status at ISO/TC 211

• Standard 29
• Revised standard 1
• Technical specification 4
• Corrigendum and amendment 5
• Technical report 3
• Draft International Standard 5
• Draft Technical Specification 2
• Committee Draft 7
• Working Draft 3
• Stage 00.60 (review summary) 3
• Total 62 projects

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Concluding remarks

• ISO/TC 211 is building an international
  infrastructure of standards for interoperability
  of geographic information on the globe
• 25 plenaries
• Extremely large membership
• More than 1000 persons involved in ISO/TC 211
  internationally
• More than 600 have attended one or more plenaries
• 29 standards, 4 technical specs total of 62
  projects
• ISO/TC 211 web site http//www. isotc211.org
• Future challenges
• Review of standards
• Backward compatibility
• Standardization of content (e.g., LCCS)
• Semantic Web, ontology, and knowledge