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Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 09:17:25 -0500
From: Julie Binder Maitra <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Request for Comments - ISO Draft Standard on Spatial
Referencing by Coordinates
 
(Note: the following message has been posted to several special interest E-mail
lists; please excuse duplicate messages)
 
Since 1997, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Technical
Committee 211, project item 15046-11, has been drafting an International Standard
on Spatial Referencing by Coordinates.  In November 1998, the status of the ISO
Standard on Spatial Referencing by Coordinates progressed from that of a working
draft to a committee draft.  With the status changed to that of a committee draft,
a select larger geospatial data community can now review the proposed ISO Standard.
 
The ISO Standard on Spatial Referencing by Coordinates provides a standardized
conceptual schema to fully define coordinate reference systems so that coordinates
referenced to a particular coordinate reference system uniquely identify a position
on the Earth.   The proposed standard will facilitate data sharing and integration,
particularly among data sets on different coordinate systems.
 
If you are interested in reviewing and commenting on the ISO Standard on Spatial
Referencing by Coordinates and/or by helping to adjudicate the comments, you must
register* by contacting Julie Binder Maitra, U.S. technical expert to ISO/TC 211
(contact information below) no later than Friday, December 18, 1998.
Please specify if you want the Committee Draft in hard copy or soft copy.  For
further information on the registered review, please contact Ms. Maitra directly.
 
*To register, you must be a United States citizen OR represent the interests of a
United States domiciled organization.  By registering, you will receive a copy of
the ISO Standard Committee Draft on Spatial Referencing by Coordinates for the
sole purpose of reviewing and providing comments on that document.  The ISO
Standard Committee Draft is a copyrighted document and therefore can not be
copied in any forms without written consent of ISO.
 
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 Julie Binder Maitra
 Data Policy and Standards
 Data Production and Integration
 National Mapping Division
 
 Post or courier:
 
 U.S. Geological Survey
 511 National Center
 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive
 Reston, Virginia 20192
 USA
 
 Phone: +001 703 648 4627
 Fax: +001 703 648 4722
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"We live in two worlds:
the world that we can measure with line and rule, and
the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination." - Leigh Hunt
 
 
 
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