ISOTC 211

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ISO/TC 211
International Organization for Standardization Tec
hnical Committee 211

• Geographic information/Geomatics

September 2000
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Some objectives ...

• increase the understanding and usage of
  geographic information
• increase the availability, access, integration,
  and sharing of geographic information
• promote the efficient, effective, and economic
  use of digital geographic information and
  associated hardware and software systems
• contribute to a unified approach to addressing
  global ecological and humanitarian problems

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What is ISO/TC 211?

• Standardization in the field of digital
  geographic information.
• This work 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.
• These standards may specify, for geographic
  information, methods, tools and services for data
  management (including definition and
  description), acquiring, processing, analyzing,
  accessing, presenting and transferring such data
  in digital/electronic form between different
  users, systems and locations.
• This work 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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ISO/TC 211 organization
Adv.G-Strat
AG Registry
MHT
SWG-QC
AG LBS
WIBob MaherCanada
WG 2Antony CooperSouth Africa
WG 3Robert WalkerUK
WG 4Morten BorrebækNorway
WG 5Doug OBrienCanada
WG 1Chris DabrowskiUSA
Framework and reference model
Geospatial services
Profiles and functional standards
Qualifi-cations and certification of personnel
Geospatial models and operators
Geospatial data admini-stration
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Overview

• ISO 19113 - Quality principles
• ISO 19114 - Quality evaluation procedures
• ISO 19115 - Metadata
• ISO 19116 - Positioning services
• ISO 19117 - Portrayal
• ISO 19118 - Encoding
• ISO 19119 - Services
• ISO/TR 19120 - Functional standards new rev
• ISO/TR 19121 Imagery and gridded data
• ISO/TR 19122 - Qualifications and certification
  of personnel
• ISO 19123 - Schema for coverage geometry and
  functions
• ISO 19124 - Imagery and gridded data
  components
• ISO 19125 - Simple feature access - SQL option
• ISO 19126 - Profile - FACC Data Dictionary
• ISO 19127 - Geodetic codes and parameters

• ISO 19101 - Reference model
• ISO 19102 - Overview
• ISO 19103 - 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
• ISO 19111 - Spatial referencing by coordinates
• ISO 19112 - Spatial referencing by geographic
  identifiers

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New work in ballot

• Geographic information - Simple feature access -
  COM/OLE option (ballot ends 2000-09-21)
• Geographic information - Web Map Server Interface
  (ballot ends 2000-09-21)... both proposals
  originating from corresponding OGC specifications

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New work in preparation

• Location based services... an Advisory Group
  for location based services established at the
  Reston plenary under the chairmanship of John
  Rowley to start work and prepare a NWIP

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Special groups

• SWG-QC - Special Working Group on Quality Control
• overall harmonization and quality control
  guidelines, dependency matrix
• MHT - Model Harmonization Team
• harmonization of UML models
• Advisory Group for the creation of strategic
  direction statement
• assisting the secretariat and chairman in
  developing the business plan
• Advisory Group for Location Based Services
• Advisory Group for Registry

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ISO/TC 211 Chairman and secretariat
ISO/TC 211 Geographic information/ Geomatics
ISO/TC 211 will develop a family of standards
ISO 19100 series
Chairman Olaf Østensen, Norwegian Mapping
Authority Secretary Bjørnhild Sæterøy,
Norwegian Technology Standards Institution
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Who are we ? ...member listActive members
(P-members), 33 countries
Australia Austria Belgium Canada China Czech
Rep. Denmark Finland France Germany Hungary
Isl. Rep. of Iran Italy Jamaica Japan Republic of
Korea Malaysia Morocco Netherlands New
Zealand Norway Portugal
Russian Federation Saudi Arabia South
Africa Spain Sweden Switzerland Tanzania Thailand
United Kingdom United States of America Yugoslavia
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Member listObserving members (13 O-members), 4
corresponding members
Bahrain (corr.) Brunei Darussalam
(corr.) Colombia Cuba Estonia (corr.) Hong Kong
(corr.)
Iceland India Mauritius Oman Pakistan
Poland Slovakia Slovenia Turkey Ukraine Zimbabwe
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External liaisons

• IHB, International Hydrographic Bureau
• Digital Geographic Information Working Group
• ICA, International Cartographic Association
• UN Economic Commission for Europe, Statistical
  Division
• FIG, International Federation of Surveyors
• EPSG, European Petroleum Survey Group
• IAG, International Association of Geodesy
• ISPRS, International Society for Photogrammetry
  and Remote Sensing
• OGC, Open GIS Consortium, Incorporated
• The Permanent Committee on GIS Infrastructure for
  Asia and the Pacific
• Joint Research Centre, European Commission
• ISCGM, International Steering Committee for
  Global Mapping
• CEOS, Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
• WMO, World Metereological Organization
• applying IEEE GRSS ......

and CEN/TC 287 Geographic information
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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 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 82 - Mining
• ISO/TC 184/SC 4 Industrial data and global
  manufacturing languages
• ISO/TC 204 Transport Information and Control
  Systems

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Meeting schedule
Meeting 1st plenary 2nd plenary 3rd
plenary 4th plenary 5th plenary 6th
plenary 7th plenary 8th plenary 9th
plenary 10th plenary 11th plenary 12 th plenary
Place Oslo, Norway Reston, VA, USA Seoul, Rep. of
Korea Sydney, Australia Oxford, UK Victoria,
Canada Beijing, China Vienna, Austria Kyoto,
Japan Cape Town, South-Africa Reston, USA Lisbon,
Portugal
Date November 10-11, 1994 August 30-31, 1995 May
30-31, 1996 January 23-24, 1997 October 2-3,
1997 March 5-6, 1998 September 24-25, 1998 March
4-5, 1999 September 29-30, 1999 March 9-10,
2000 September 7-8, 2000 March 8-9, 2001
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ISO/TC 211 statistics

• More than 500 persons involved since start
• WG 1 approx. 77 persons
• WG 2 - approx. 52 persons
• WG 3 - approx. 88 persons
• WG 4 - approx. 58 persons
• WG 5 - approx. 49 persons
• Qualifications and certification - approx. 12
  persons

NB! Figures are approximate and vary over time
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Agreement ISO/TC 211 - OGC
Why cooperation ?

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

has led to establishment of a cooperative
agreement between Open GIS Consortium and ISO/TC
211, others may follow
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ISO/TC 211 on Internet - the WWW server
You will find updated information on ISO/TC 211
on the following World Wide Web-server
WWW
http//www.statkart.no/isotc211/
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