Here's a proposal for the charter of the new GIS Subcommittee,
drafted among Dave Denko, Bill Schroeder, and me.
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Geographic Information Systems Subcommittee (GIS SC)
Scope of Work - Geography and spatial location are an extremely
important part of Emergency Management. Geographic information
standards are becoming mature and being integrated into general
Information Technology standards. This subcommittee will ensure
the proper use and integration of these geographic standards into
the development of Emergency Management interoperability standards.
Purpose - The purpose of this subcommittee is to ensure existing
geographic information standards are properly used and integrated
into Emergency Management standards. This may include developing
profiles and application schemas of existing geographic information
standards for EM, if and when unique sets of requirements are
identified. The SC will seek to make EM TC participants aware of
the correct use of coordinate reference systems, GIS capabilities,
feature classes, geographic metadata, and other related geospatial
information.
Deliverables -
(1) By June 2003, provide to EM TC participants educational
materials, as well as identifying specific standards and
standards work such as the Open GIS Consortium, ISO TC 211
and the FGDC Framework Themes progressing in ANSI;
(2) By September 2003, provide advice on the GIS aspects of
the particular EM TC standards work concerning the Common
Alerting Protocol (CAP);
(3) By December 2003, institute the process to reach a consensus
position on how best to align symbologies across different
maps used in an emergency.
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