2nd meeting of the Joint Steering Group on Spatial Standardization and Related Interoperability (JSG)

Meeting place: British Standards Institute, London, United Kingdom
Meeting date: 2002-06-21/22

Delegates

Name Representing
Olaf Østensen Chairman
Abdullah Al-Shahrani ISO/TC 211
Jesse Campos SEDRIS (Saturday only)
Jack Cogman ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 (Saturday only)
Paul Foley SEDRIS
Tim Gifford ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 (Saturday only)
Mike Harbaugh DGIWG
Ha-Jine Kimn ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 (Friday only)
Farid Mamaghani SEDRIS
Laura Moore ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24
Doug O'Brien DGIWG and ISO/TC 211
Richard Puk ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 (Saturday only)
Mark E. Reichardt OGC (Friday only)
Charles Roswell DGIWG and ISO/TC 211
John Rowley ISO/TC 211
Jerry Smith ISO/TC 184/SC 4
Jean Stride ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24
Bjørnhild Sæterøy Secretary

Presentations from the organizations

ISO/TC 211

 Olaf Østensen

 Presentation

 ISO/TC 211 home page

SEDRIS

 Farid Mamaghani

  

 SEDRIS home page

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24

 Laura Moore

  

 JTC 1/SC 24 home page

DGIWG

 Mike Harbaugh

    

Open GIS Consortium, Inc

 Mark E. Reichardt

Presentation

OGC home page

ISO/TC 184/SC 4

 Jerry Smith

 Report

TC 184/SC 4 home page

Location based services

 John Rowley

 Presentation

 

IHO

 Doug O'Brien

   IHO home page

Discussion items

Proposal for an International Workshop Agreement (IWA)

Jerry Smith (no ISO/TC 184/SC 4 connection in this matter) informed about the recognized need to standardize symbology, referring to US Military standard 2525.

Proposal that a National Body to call for a IWA.

Consensus in JSG that something needs to be done.

Interested organizations would be OGC, NIMA, NATO, IHO, ISO/TC 211, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24.

JSG wants to be kept updated on what's being done.

Authoritative referencing between feature catalogues/data dictionaries

Presentation by Doug O'Brien

JTC 1/SC 24 confirmed that the Environmental Data Coding Specification (EDCS)(ISO/IEC 18025) is a candidate for the proposed authoritative referencing scheme. The EDCS is currently at the Committee Draft stage, with the disposition of comments due in July. Further information on the EDCS is available from the SEDRIS home page (www.sedris.org).

Other items

Other discussion items are reflected in the updated Action item.

General

ISO/TC 211 encourage nomination of experts to their work items through members bodies and liaison organizations.

Nomination of liaison representatives important to be able to monitor work it the other organizations.

Next meeting

Possible opportunities: May 2003 in Geneva, March 2003 in Stuttgart (date later decided to 2003-02-17/21).

 

Photographs from the London meeting