News from ISO/TC 211 Geographic information/Geomatics

Save the date. ISO/TC 211 58th Hybrid Plenary meeting, Chiswick, London, UK

The 58th ISO/TC 211 plenary meeting will be hosted by the British Standards Institute (BSI) in Chiswick, London between the 24th and 28th June.

The provisional technical program has been published and can be accessed on our website: 58th Plenary meeting Chiswick (iso.org)

You will also find practical information to help you plan your visit. Registration will be required in advance.

Our popular standards in action event of talks and panel discussions will take place on Wednesday 26th June at the same venue. Speakers from the Ordnance Survey, UK Hydrographic Office and the Office for National Statistics have been confirmed. Details of the full program will follow. This will be a hybrid event. Early registration will be required.

 

Published 2024-03-23 - Read more News

 

OGC 128th Member Meeting, 25-28 March 2024, TU Delft

The ISO/TC 211 community looks forward to the OGC Member Meetings in Delft later this month.

We have enjoyed a fruitful collaboration with OGC since both organisations were founded within months of each other almost thirty years ago; this relationship was formalised in 1999.

Of course, most of the time we work asynchronously and in virtual meetings, but project teams can often make great strides forward when we have the chance to meet together, and this month’s meeting week will include several meetings to progress joint work:

Land Admin special session

We’ve been working with OGC and others for some years to update ISO 19152 Land Administration Domain Model, and this year OGC will be leading Part 6 Implementation aspects. Holding the meeting in TU Delft is special to, as they have contributed a lot to the development of LADM for many years.

Analysis Ready Data standards working group

This is a joint project between OGC and ISO/TC 211 to formalise and generalise the work done by CEOS on specifying what is meant by data being “analysis ready”. On the ISO side, it is registered as ISO 19176-1 Analysis ready data — Part 1: Framework and fundamentals.

Europe Forum

We worked with OGC and the European Commission on Input to EU Data Spaces to help publishers see how to use existing standards to publish into these new general data environments.

Other overlaps

  • Discrete Global Grid System domain working group, cooperating as ISO 19170.
  • GeoDCAT standards working group, which will influence the future of geospatial metadata.
  • Data Quality domain working group has a strong interest in ISO 19157 Data quality. OGC will host the Data quality measures register being defined in ISO 19157-3.
  • Observational data special session: where next after publishing the revised joint ISO 19156 Observations, measures, and samples?
  • Agriculture domain working group, as we strengthen our relationship with ISO’s new TC 347 Data-driven agrifood systems
  • OGC API standards working groups as we have fast tracked OGC API Features as ISO 19168 Geospatial API for features and are working to fast track OGC API Tiles as ISO 19177 Geospatial API for tiles.

We look forward to a good presence as many of our nominated experts are also members of OGC.

 

Published 2024-03-09 Read more News

 

Addressing a new addition 

ISO 19160-2, Addressing -- Part 2: Assigning and maintaining addresses for objects in the physical world

An address is structured information that allows the unambiguous determination of an object for purposes of identification and location (ISO 19160-1:2015). The objects exist in the physical world (i.e. virtual objects are excluded) and can be outdoor (e.g. a building) or indoor (e.g. an office inside a building). Addresses provide one of the most common ways to locate and identify an object in the physical world. They are essential for the management of cities, for governance and public administration generally, for service delivery in the public and private sector, and they can give people status or (legal) identity in society. They also play an important role in detecting emerging hotspots and clusters of infected cases during an epidemic or pandemic. Yet, in many parts of the world, addresses do not exist or are poorly maintained, and even if they exist, corresponding address data is often lacking or incomplete. 

ISO 19160-2 specifies how to plan, implement, and maintain addresses and corresponding address data in order to gain maximum benefits for governance and society in the long run. It does not promote uniform addresses across the world but rather specifies good governance and management practices for any kind of address so that challenges related to address assignment and maintenance can be resolved consistently and sustainably. Based on international good practice, the requirements and recommendations are aimed at upholding a long-lasting addressing infrastructure that meets today’s needs for addressing that can also be used by future generations.

ISO 19160-2 supports the first goal of the United Nations Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (UN IGIF), namely, enabling geospatial (address) information governance, policy and institutional arrangements that ensure effective geospatial (address) information management, accommodate individual organizational requirements and arrangements, and that are aligned to national and global policy frameworks. ISO 19160-2 also supports the Universal Postal Union’s initiative, “Addressing the World – An Address for Everyone”, which promotes the establishment of national addressing infrastructures to the benefit of all. For example, it is a useful tool for those involved in slum upgrading, as addresses are often assigned when housing conditions in settlements are being improved. Finally, ISO 19160-2, together with the other parts of ISO 19160, contributes to address data being FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable).
 

 

Published 2024-03-01 - Read more News

 

This committee contributes with over 100 standards supporting the following Sustainable Development Goals:

 

 

            

Scope

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.

Within the scope of geographic information, these standards may specify methods, tools, and services for data management. Data management includes acquiring, processing, analyzing, accessing, presenting, and publishing geographic data for users and systems.

The 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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