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Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 08:04:28 -0600
From: Cliff Mugnier <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Re: MI Request for Comments - ISO Draft Standard
onSpatialReferencing by Coordinates
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Luis,
I see no paradox. Like the government lady said, she can only accept
comments from citizens of her country. I ask you: what's the matter with
YOUR government not asking for YOUR opinion?
Paradox? Nope. Problem? Probably, but it ain't on our side of the
Atlantic ...
Cliff
Clifford J. Mugnier ([log in to unmask])
The Topographic Engineering Laboratory
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS
New Orleans, LA 70148
Voice and Facsimile: (504) 280-7095
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Date: Wednesday, 09 December, 1998 3:33 AM
Subject: GPS: Re: MI Request for Comments - ISO Draft Standard
onSpatialReferencing by Coordinates
>Funny paradox:
>
>An International Organization putting together an International
>Standard....
>
>but...
>
>you have to be an "International" United States citizen OR represent the
>interests of a United States domiciled organization... to be eligible for
>reviewing and providing comments on that work.
>
>"We live in one of two worlds:
>else in the world that can establish international standards (USA),
>or else in the world that must comply with international standards (the
>rest)."
>
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>From: Julie Binder Maitra <[log in to unmask]>
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>Date: lunes 7 de diciembre de 1998 16:56
>Subject: MI Request for Comments - ISO Draft Standard on SpatialReferencing
>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.
>>
>>**************************************
>> 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
>>**************************************
>>"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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