From carson@siggraph.org Wed Jan 5 06:39:54 2000 Received: from mail.htg.net (mail.htg.net [209.136.26.18]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id GAA04424 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 06:39:53 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from carson@siggraph.org) Received: from study (pm3-4-221.htg.net [216.253.7.221] (may be forged)) by mail.htg.net (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA09426 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 22:29:55 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.20000104223530.00f07c18@siggraph.org> X-Sender: carson@siggraph.org X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 22:35:34 -0700 To: SC24@dkuug.dk From: Steve Carson Subject: Presentation materials from spatial standards meetings Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by dkuug.dk id GAA04424 This note describes how you can obtain copies of the presentations given at two informal meetings on spatial standardization held a few weeks ago. A "Spatial Standards Briefing" was held on 9 December 1999 on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles, CA in conjunction with a plenary meeting of the Open GIS Consortium (OGC). The session was informal and directed at providing background information to help OGC come to a consensus position on issues regarding placement and coordination of formal standards activities in the area of spatial information standards. Cliff Kottman, VP and Chief Scientist of the Open GIS Consortium, opened the meeting with a short briefing to acquaint OGC members with the issues. Following Cliff's introduction, additional presenters included: · Keith Brannon (representing JTC 1/ITTF (Information Technology Task Force), · Martin Ford (representing JTC 1), · John Rowley (representing TOCG), · Carl Cargill (representing JCP), · Steve Smyth (representing ISO TC 204), · Steve Carson (representing SC24), · Farid Mamaghani (representing the SEDRIS Organization), · Paul Scarponcini (representing JTC 1/SC 32 - Data Management and Services), · Dave Archer (representing POSC - Petrotechnical Open Software Corporation), Henry Tom (representing L1, the US TAG to ISO/TC 211). The presentations made at this meeting taken together provide a good picture of spatial standardization. They are posted at: http://www.opengis.org/techno/presentations.htm On December 17, 1999 an "Informal Meeting" on Spatial Standardization at was held at Defense Information System Agency (DISA) in Reston, Virginia. Twenty experts who are participants in various standards activities participated. The major presentations at this meeting covered the work of ISO TC 211, OGC, JTC 1/SC 24 and the SEDRIS Organization. The presentations are posted at: http://www.jtc1tag.org/spatial_stds/spatial.htm Steve Carson Chair, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 Computer Graphics and Image Processing --------------------------------------------------------- Steve Carson http://www.huntel.com/~carson/ GSC Associates http://www.gscassociates.com/ 5272 Redman Road phone:+1-505-521-7399; fax:+1-505-521-9321 Las Cruces, NM 88011 USA e-mail: carson@siggraph.org ---------------------------------------------------------