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RE: [emergency] Kent State Symbology Study

  • 1.  RE: [emergency] Kent State Symbology Study

    Posted 07-16-2003 23:28
    Have they published anything over that 18 months? A working draft or
    anything we can look at and see how things are going?
    
    On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 10:26, Ham, Gary A wrote: 
    > My source on the FGDC Homeland Security Subcommittee tell me that the FGDC
    > efforts BEGAN WITH THE KENT STATE STUDY as its initial guidance with the
    > idea of producing the elusive "quick win."  But they ended up having to
    > review the Kent State stuff in combination with DOD military symbology and
    > several other competing inputs.  So, the "quick win" has been 18 months in
    > the making.  But they are fully aware of the Kent State work and have
    > incorporated it in what they are doing.  
    > 
    > R/S  Gary Ham
    > 
    > 
    > P.S. My email registered with OASIS still does not work in send mode (my
    > fault, not theirs) so I will rely on Allen to pass to the full committee as
    > needed.
    > 
    > 
    > 
    > 
    > --Original Message--
    > From: Allen Wyke [mailto:emtc@nc.rr.com] 
    > Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 9:36 PM
    > To: David Hall
    > Cc: Emergency Management TC; emergency-gis@lists.oasis-open.org
    > Subject: Re: [emergency] Kent State Symbology Study
    > 
    > 
    > This is actually an excellent report. I have cross posted it with the GIS
    > SC.
    > 
    > Eliot/Bill: I recommend we attempt to contact Dr. Dymon
    > (udymon@kent.edu) and see if he can speak at one of your con calls. In
    > conjunction, we should try and ascertain the status of the work at FEMA, if
    > they received this paper, and get their thoughts/direction. The goal would
    > be to specify where we (the EM TC) plans to draw its symbology from, even if
    > it is in a working draft state.
    > 
    > Thoughts?
    > 
    > Allen
    > 
    > On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 13:36, David Hall wrote:
    > > The following is a link to the Emergency symbology study performed by 
    > > Kent State for FEMA that was mentioned in today's XML committee call.
    > >  
    > > http://dept.kent.edu/geography/Dymon/symbology.htm
    > >  
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    R. Allen Wyke
    Chair, Emergency Management TC
    emtc@nc.rr.com
    http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/emergency