OASIS Emergency Management TC

  • 1.  GIS SC draft charter

    Posted 04-22-2003 15:35
    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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