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Resolutions taken at the 1st plenary

Oslo, 1994-11-10/11

Resolution 1 Election of chairman

ISO/TC 211 supports the secretariat's nomination of Mr. Olaf Østensen as chairman. TC 211 asks the secretariat to forward this decision to the ISO Technical Management Board for appointment.

Abstention: France

Resolution 2 Title and scope of ISO/TC 211

ISO/TC 211 resolves that the scope of ISO/TC 211 is:

Standardization in the field of digital geographic information.

This work aims to establish a structured set of standards for information concerning objects or phenomena that are directly or indirectly associated with a location relative to the Earth.

These standards may specify, for geographic information, methods, tools and services for data management (including definition and description), acquiring, processing, analyzing, accessing, presenting and transferring such data in digital/electronic form between different users, systems and locations.

The work shall link to appropriate standards for information technology and data where possible, and provide a framework for the development of sector-specific applications using geographic data.

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to submit the scope to the ISO Technical Management Board for approval.

ISO/TC 211 asks the member bodies to prepare contributions concerning the title to be considered at the next meeting of ISO/TC 211.

Unanimous

Resolution 3 Establishment of Ad hoc groups

ISO/TC 211 resolves to establish 5 ad hoc groups to progress the work of the Technical committee until the next meeting of the TC.

These groups are as follows:

Resolution 3.1 Ad hoc group 1

Title: Geographic information standards reference model

Scope: Taking into account the draft work items prepared at the first meeting of the TC along with comments from National Bodies, to draft a Reference Model. Based on a first version, finalize work item proposals for balloting and propose assignment of work items to ad hoc groups 1-4.

ISO/TC 211 accepts the offer of convenorship from the USA (Mr. Henry Tom).

Target date: 1995-03-31

Unanimous

Resolution 3.2 Ad hoc group 2

Title: Geo-spatial Data Modelling

Scope: After availability of the draft Reference Model begin preliminary work according to the draft Reference Model and work item proposals.

Abstention: France

Resolution 3.3 Ad hoc group 3

Title: Geo-spatial Data Administration

Scope: After availability of the Draft Reference model begin preliminary work according to the draft Reference Model and work item proposals.

ISO/TC 211 accepts the offer of convenorship from the UK (Mr. John R. Rowley).

Abstention: France

Resolution 3.4 Ad hoc group 4

Title: Geo-spatial Services

Scope: After availability of the Draft Reference model begin preliminary work according to the draft Reference Model and work item proposals.

ISO/TC 211 accepts the offer of convenorship from Norway (Mr. Morten Borrebæk)

Abstention: France

Resolution 3.5 Ad hoc group 5

Title: Functional standards

Scope: Establish whether or not any regional and international de facto standards or part of them may be adapted into profiles of TC 211 standards.

Tasks: Decompose and identify parts of these standards relevant to TC 211 work based on a mapping to the Reference Model and work item proposals.

Describe how harmonization with TC 211 standards work may be carried out to achieve interoperability.

Report to TC 211 including suggestion for actions.

ISO/TC 211 accepts the offer of convenorship from Canada (Mr. David McKellar).

Abstention: France

Resolution 4 Documents for comments

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to circulate the following documents to the National Bodies and Liaison organizations for comments by 1994-12-30:

• N 035 Report from the ad hoc working group 1 at the Plenary Meeting
• N 036 Report from the ad hoc working group 2 at the Plenary Meeting
• N 037 Report from the ad hoc working group 3 at the Plenary Meeting
• N 038 Report from the ad hoc working group 4 at the Plenary Meeting

The comments will be forwarded to the ad hoc group 1 for consideration in order to finalize the work item proposals before ballot.

Unanimous

Resolution 5 Balloting New Work Item Proposals

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat that immediately upon the receipt of the draft Reference Model and completed ISO form 4 for each work item, to conduct the balloting of the New Work Item Proposals.

The draft Reference Model shall be circulated at the same time in order to provide information on the proposed relationship between the work items.

The member bodies will be asked to comment on the draft Reference Model.

Unanimous

Resolution 6 Liaisons

ISO/TC 211 welcomes and establishes the liaisons listed in the secretariat report, document N 031.

• United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
• International Cartographic Association (ICA)
• Digital Geographic Information Working Group (DGIWG)
• International Hydrographic Bureau (IHB)

• ISO/TC 204
• ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 21/WG 3
• ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 30 (to be confirmed)
• ISO/TC 184/SC 4 (to be confirmed)

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to revise document N 031 to include co-operation with CEN/TC 287.

Abstention: France

Resolution 7 Next meeting

ISO/TC 211 welcomes the US National Body's offer to host the next meeting. The meeting will be in the Washington area on 28 and 29 August 1995.

Unanimous

Resolutions at the 2nd plenary

Washington, 1995-08-28/29 (location USGS, Reston, VA)

Resolution 8 - Liaisons

ISO/TC 211 welcomes the establishment of category A liaisons with the following organizations:

• International Association of Geodesy (IAG)
• European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG)
• Open GIS Consortium, Inc, (OGC)
• International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)

Liaisons are also established with

• ISO/TC 82 - Mining
• ISO/TC 46/WG 2 - Coding of country names and related entities

Unanimous

Resolution 9 - Dissolvement of ad hoc working groups

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation for the work done by the ad hoc working groups.

Unanimous

Resolution 10 - Structure of Working Groups

ISO/TC 211 resolves to establish 5 Working Groups to progress the programme of work of the committee. These groups are:

WG 1 - Framework and reference model

Work items assigned to WG 1: Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5

WG 2 - Geospatial data models and operators

Work items assigned to WG 2: Parts 7, 8, 9 and 20

WG 3 - Geospatial data administration

Work items assigned to WG 3: Parts 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15

WG 3 is invited to submit a new work item proposal in the area of Specification of geographical data products.

WG 4 - Geospatial services

Work items assigned to WG 4: Parts 16, 17, 18 and 19

WG 5 - Profiles and functional standards

Work items assigned to WG 5: Part 6

WG 5 shall also develop a new work item proposal on functional standards.

Unanimous

Resolution 11 - Appointment of convenors

ISO/TC 211 accepts the offer of convenorship of WG 1 from the USA (Mr. Greg Smith).

ISO/TC 211 accepts the offer of convenorship of WG 2 from Australia (Mr. Ken Bullock).

ISO/TC 211 accepts the offer of convenorship of WG 3 from the United Kingdom (Mr. Les Rackham).

ISO/TC 211 accepts the offer of convenorship of WG 4 from Norway (Mr. Morten Borrebæk).

ISO/TC 211 accepts the offer of convenorship of WG 5 from Canada (Mr. David McKellar).

Unanimous

Resolution 12 - Call for experts to the working groups

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to send out to the P-members and liaison members, a call for experts to the working groups within the next week.

Unanimous

Resolution 13 - Call for P-members and experts to the working groups

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to send out an invitation to the O-members to apply for P-membership in order to participate in the committee's programme of work by appointing experts to the working groups.

Unanimous

Resolution 14 - Nomination of project leaders

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to send out to the P-members a call for project leaders for the approved work items within the committee's programme of work within the next week. ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to require a clarification from the ISO CS on whether a class A liaison member nomination of a project leader could be accepted by the TC.

Unanimous

Resolution 15 - Cooperation with CEN/TC 287

ISO/TC 211 welcomes and accepts the proposal from CEN/TC 287 to arrange a joint coordination meeting between the two committees. ISO/TC 211 will be represented at this meeting by its chairman, secretary and the working group convenors.

Unanimous

Resolution 16 - Resolving comments to the programme of work

ISO/TC 211 instructs the working groups to carefully study all comments made by members and liaisons concerning the work programme and to suggest actions or indicate intended actions on each comment. The recommendations of the working groups should be available by February 1, 1996, allowing individual reballots prior to the next plenary.

Unanimous

Resolution 17 - Timetable of the programme of work

ISO/TC 211 resolves the following dates for working groups to submit the 1st working draft of the work items:

• Part 1 - Reference model - 96-03
• Part 2 - Overview - 96-09
• Part 3 - Conceptual schema language - 96-01
• Part 4 - Terminology - 96-09
• Part 5 - Conformance and testing - 96-09
• Part 6 - Profiles - 96-09
• Part 7 - Spatial subschema - 96-03
• Part 8 - Temporal subschema - 96-03
• Part 9 - Rules for application schema - 96-09
• Part 10 - Cataloguing - 96-09
• Part 11 - Geodetic reference systems - 96-03
• Part 12 - Indirect reference systems - 96-03
• Part 13 - Quality - 96-03
• Part 14 - Quality evaluation procedures - 96-09
• Part 15 - Metadata - 96-03
• Part 16 - Positioning services - 96-03
• Part 17 - Portrayal of geographic information - 96-09
• Part 18 - Encoding - 96-09
• Part 19 - Services - 96-09
• Part 20 - Spatial operators - 96-09

Unanimous

Resolution 18 - Title of ISO/TC 211

ISO/TC 211 resolves that the title of the committee shall remain for the time being:

Geographic information/Geomatics

ISO/TC 211 shall be presented with definitions and relationships for the terms

• geographic information
• geomatics

at the next plenary. The terminology work shall be undertaken by WG 1 within its terminology project. Further actions - if necessary - will be based upon these definitions.

Unanimous

Resolution 19 - Strategic policy statement

ISO/TC 211 instructs the chairman and the secretariat to draft a strategic policy statement, including information dissemination and publicity, and submit the document to the members before January 1996 for comments.

Unanimous

Resolution 20 - Requirements concerning subsequent meetings

ISO/TC 211 adopts the following meeting schedule:

3rd plenary - May 30-31 1996 Korea*

4th plenary - January 23-24 1997 Australia*

5th plenary - United Kingdom

6th plenary - Canada

Japan also offers to host a future meeting.

*Subject to confirmation

Concerning meeting requirements, it is referred to letter from ISO CS dated 1995-06-16 "Guidelines for the organization of ISO technical committee or subcommittee meetings".

ISO/TC 211 resolves to hold a joint WG meeting in Oslo, Norway, December 4-8 1995.

TC 211 also instructs the secretariat to organize a seminar on the Reference model on the first day of the meeting, and during the meeting to organize a workshop on candidates for a conceptual schema language.

ISO/TC 211 appoints Mr. Henry Tom to represent the committee at the IEC/ISO/ITU Seminar on the Standards aspect of Global Information Infrastructure (GII) in Geneva, January 24-26, 1996.

Unanimous

Appreciations

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to ANSI, Defence Mapping Agency and the US Geological Survey for the excellent arrangements offered for hosting the meeting.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to Defence Mapping Agency, UNISYS, ESRI and Intergraph for the excellent dinner on Monday evening and Navigation Technologies/SEI Technology Group for the refreshments during the meeting.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to the US Geological Survey staff, Mr. Richard Hogan, Mr. Robin Fegeas , Mr. Mark DeMulder, Ms. Bridget Nevitte and Ms. Lydia Quintana for the provision of timely and high quality assistance to the meeting.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to Mr. Jean Claude Thomas for his services as interpreter.

Acclamation

Resolutions at the 3rd plenary

Seoul, 1996-05-30/31 (location Seoul Palace Hotel)

Resolution 21 Title of ISO/TC 211

ISO/TC 211 resolves that the title of the committee shall be:

Geographic information/Geomatics

Abstention: France, Germany, UK

Resolution 22 Convenor of WG 1

ISO/TC 211 accepts the US nomination of Mr. Christopher Dabrowski as new convenor of WG 1.

ISO/TC 211 expresses it's appreciation to Dr. Gregory Smith for the excellent work he has done with WG 1.

Unanimous

Resolution 23 Change of time schedule for NWI 15046-7 - Geographic information - Spatial subschema

ISO/TC 211 accepts the recommendation from WG 2 to delay the first Working Draft of NWI 15046-7 until 1996-10-30 to allow further time for harmonization with the equivalent CEN/TC 287 work item.

Unanimous

Resolution 24 Change of time schedule NWI 15046-11 - Geographic information - Geodetic reference systems

ISO/TC 211 accepts the recommendation from WG 3 to delay the first Working Draft of NWI 15046-11 until 1996-09-30 due to delay in confirming a project leader.

Unanimous

Resolution 25 Change of scope and time schedule NWI 15046-16 - Geographic information - Positioning services

ISO/TC 211 accepts the recommendation from WG 4 in document N 186 to broaden the scope, purpose and justification of NWI 15046-16 to be:

Scope:
Definition of a standard interface protocol for positioning systems.

Purpose and justification:
A standardized interface of geographic information with position will allow the integration of position data into a variety of geographic information applications, such as surveying, navigation and fleet management. This standard will benefit geographic information system users, and will be used by geographic information systems and software developers to provide such capability within their systems.

ISO/TC 211 also accepts the recommendation from WG 4 to delay the first Working Draft of NWI 15046-16 until 1996-09-30 because of the change of the scope.

Unanimous

Resolution 26 Special Working Group on Quality Control - TC 211/SWG - QC

ISO/TC 211 resolves to establish a special working group on quality control of the standards being produced; TC 211/SWG - QC, convened by the TC Chairman.

The SWG - QC shall establish guidelines for quality control, including terminology, compliance with the reference model and conformance and testing methodology. The principle of the list shown in document N 232 Rev on terminology quality control shall be included in the guidelines.

Guidelines and procedures for implementing these shall be presented at the next plenary.

ISO/TC 211 resolves that document N 232 Rev applies provisionally.

Unanimous

Resolution 27 Document handling

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to distribute a draft document on electronic document handling by 1996-08-01.

Unanimous

Resolution 28 Cooperation between ISO/TC 211 and CEN/TC 287

Considering both work programmes together with their schedules and their syncronization, ISO/TC 211 agrees with CEN/TC 287 that only levels 1 and 2 of cooperation (as defined by the Vienna agreement: exchange of information, mutual representation at meetings) are possible between the two TCs for the time being.

With the objective to achieve one harmonized and globally accepted family of standards, ISO/TC 211 will use, as far as possible, the CEN/TC 287 work as input to the ISO/TC 211 work at suitable stages (working draft, CD, DIS). ISO/TC 211 welcomes the invitation to comment upon CEN/TC 287 draft standards, and encourages its members to provide comments to the CEN/TC 287 secretariat.

Unanimous

Resolution 29 New Work Item Proposals on products/profiles

ISO/TC 211 supports the recommendation from WG 3 to withdraw the new work item proposal in N 217.

ISO/TC 211 invites WG 5 to cooperate with WG 3, and also with the other working groups, on one or more NWI proposals, taking into consideration NWI 15046-6 and -9, as well as draft proposals given in N 204, 205 and 217.

ISO/TC 211 asks WG 5 to complete the new work item proposal given in N 204 according to the ISO Directives, prior to the next plenary.

Abstention: Germany

Resolution 30 Requirements concerning subsequent meetings

ISO/TC 211 adopts the following meeting schedule:

4th plenary		1997-01-23/24	Australia

5th plenary		1997-09/10	United Kingdom

6th plenary		1998-02/03	Canada

7th plenary		1998-09/10	China

ISO/TC 211 welcomes the Japanese offer to host a future meeting.

All WGs have decided to have meetings prior to the plenary meeting in Australia, and provisions for WG meetings will also be made in the UK, Canada and China.

Unanimous

Resolution 31 External meetings

Mr. Bernd Wenzel was appointed to represent ISO/TC 211 at the ISO/TC 184/SC 4 meeting in Kobe on 1996-06-14.

The chairman will be giving a presentation of ISO/TC 211 at Joint Workshop on Standards for the Use of Models that Define the Data and Processes of Information Systems.in Seattle on 1996-09-09/12. Mr. Arne-JDrgen Berre and Mr. Christopher Dabrowski will give expert contributions.

ISO/TC 211 expects to have reports from these events.

Unanimous

Resolution 32 Special working group on GII

ISO/TC 211 appoints Mr. Henry Tom as the TC 211 representative to the Special working group on GII, with Mr. Arne-JDrgen Berre as alternate.

Unanimous

Appreciations

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to KNITQ for the excellent arrangements offered for hosting the Working Group and plenary meetings.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to Professor Tschangho Kim. ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to Mr. Young-Goo Kwon, director at KNITQ and his staff, Mr. Kil-Young Bae, Mr. Yong-Soo Roh, Ms. Eun-Jeong Lee, Ms. Hye-Ran Cho and Mr. Sung-Gon Kim, IIS, for their assistance to the meeting.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to the Director General of KNITQ, Mr. Seung-Bae Lee for hosting the excellent reception on May 28. ISO/TC 211 expresses its pleasure to the minister of trade, industry and energy, Dr. Jae Yoon Park for his interest in the work of ISO/TC 211 expressed through his welcoming address at the reception.

Acclamation

Resolutions ISO/TC 211 Plenary Meeting
in Sydney, 1997-01-23/24

Resolution 33 ISO Term database

ISO/TC 211 instructs its secretariat to ask the ISO Central Secretariat to set up and maintain a publicly available database for all terms defined in ISO standards. The secretariat will report back to TC 211 at the 5th plenary meeting.

Unanimous

Resolution 34 Adoption of conceptual schema languages

For 1997 ISO/TC 211 adopts the intermediate use of the OMT Object Model as a graphical language, and EXPRESS and CORBA IDL as lexical languages. For harmonization and ease of integration these languages shall be used in the specifications within all TC 211 work items where specifications are necessary. For data models, EXPRESS will be used. If operations associated with entities are needed, EXPRESS-C will be used. For services, CORBA IDL will be used.

ISO/TC 211 instructs WG 1 to monitor progress on the development of relevant conceptual schema languages and advise the TC when the provisional selection should be reviewed no later than February 1998.

Unanimous

Resolution 35 Convenor WG 5

ISO/TC 211 accepts the nomination from the Netherlands of Mr. Kees Wevers as new convenor of WG 5.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to Mr. David McKellar for the excellent work he has done with WG 5.

Unanimous

Resolution 36 Project leader of work item 15046-11, Geodetic reference systems

ISO/TC 211 resolves to terminate the current project leadership of work item 11, Geodetic reference systems, held by the International Association of Geodesy.

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to consult with the ISO CS on the procedure for terminating the assignment of project leadership.

ISO/TC 211 instructs the WG 3 convenor to progress the work with Dr. Johannes Ihde, Germany, as interim editor of the Geodetic reference systems work item, and provide a new timetable.

Objection: France

Resolution 37 Revision of title, scope, and purpose and justification of standards

ISO/TC 211 instructs its secretariat to work together with the WG's in revising title, scope, and purpose and justification of all work items in the ISO/TC 211 programme of work, and to present a proposal in time to be adopted at the next plenary. The titles shall follow the principles for defining titles in the ISO directives, and the other revisions shall take account of the proposals tabled at the 4th ISO/TC 211 plenary meeting.

Unanimous

Resolution 38 Raising the priority of raster and matrix data

ISO/TC 211 instructs the convenors and project leaders to provide feedback to Standards Council of Canada by 31 March 1997, identifying which elements of their work are related to raster and matrix (grid) data.

Canada will report back to the 5th plenary of ISO/TC 211, with estimates of the work and resource implications. ISO/TC 211 welcomes the offer from Canada and the USA to consider resourcing this work.

ISO/TC 211 welcomes the drafting of a new work item proposal on imaging by Canada for presentation to the 5th plenary, in consultation with other relevant organizations, including Center for Earth Observations (CEO), Committee on Earth Observation Sattelite (CEOS), International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) and Open GIS Consortium, Inc (OGC).

Unanimous

Resolution 39 Class A Liaison Status for The Permanent Committee on GIS Infrastructure for Asia and the Pacific

ISO/TC 211 welcomes the application from The Permanent Committee on GIS Infrastructure for Asia and the Pacific to become a class A liaison, and instructs the secretariat to recommend to the ISO Central Secretariat the establishment of this liaison.

ISO/TC 211 appoints Mr. Henry Tom, USA, as its liaison representative to this committee.

Unanimous

Resolution 40 Use of character sets in ISO/TC 211 standards

ISO/TC 211 instructs the project leaders to ensure that ISO 8859-1 and ISO 10646 (UCS 2 and 4) are used as normative references for character sets where appropriate.

Abstention: Japan

Resolution 41 New work item proposal: Functional standards

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to modify the scope of the new work item proposal given in document ISO/TC 211 N 310 according to the proposal from WG 5 and initiate the formal adoption procedures.

Unanimous

Resolution 42 Requirement concerning subsequent meetings

ISO/TC 211 adopts the following meeting schedule:

5th plenary	1997-10-02/03	Swindon, UK 

6th plenary	1998-03-05/06	Sidney, BC, Canada 

7th plenary	1998-09/10	Beijing, China 

All WGs have decided to have meetings prior to the plenary meeting in the UK and Canada, and provisions for WG meetings will also be made in China.

Unanimous

Resolution 43 External meetings

ISO/TC 211 appoints Professor Tschangho Kim, Korea, and Mr. Steve Gordon, USA, to represent ISO/TC 211 at the forthcoming ISO/TC 204 meeting in Noosa Head, Australia, March 1997.

Unanimous

Resolution 44 Liaison representatives

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to develop a complete proposal for representation of ISO/TC 211 in liaison organizations for consideration at the 5th plenary. ISO/TC 211 welcomes nominations from national bodies.

Unanimous

Appreciations

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to SAA for the excellent arrangements offered for hosting the working group and plenary meetings.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to Mr. Neville Chen, Mrs. Betty Titcombe and Mrs. Cheryl O'Neill for their excellent organization of the meetings and their helpful assistance throughout the meeting, and Mrs. Geraldine Mijajlovic and Mrs. Gwen Sorensen for their kind and helpful assistance to the meeting.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to Mr. Colin Blair and Mr. Max Maffucci, SAA, for their kind words of welcome to the delegates. ISO/TC 211 expresses its pleasure to SAA for the excellent reception given on Thursday 23.

Acclamation

Resolutions ISO/TC 211 5th Plenary Meeting
in Oxford, United Kingdom
1997-10-02/03

Resolution 45 - ISO Central Secretariat's decentralization

Unanimous

Resolution 46 - Quality control procedures

a special working group on quality control be established, consisting of the chairman, convenors of the WGs and all project leaders of WG 1 as well as the project leader of 15046-6, with a mandate to
	finalize the quality control guidelines, including procedures, by October 31 1997; this shall include the requirement to adhere to the terminology checking procedure; assist WGs in implementing the guidelines; smonitor the implementation and revise the guidelines as necessary;
all WGs shall implement the quality control guidelines before submission of CD and DIS; in the meantime WGs shall implement N 232 Rev. and N 419.

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to distribute the quality control guidelines to the members for comments and to distribute a revised version for approval at the next plenary.

Unanimous

Resolution 47 - Cooperation with OGC

ISO/TC 211 accordingly agrees to

establish a task force consisting of the chairman and the WG convenors to
	liaise with OGC in order to develop a proposal for the detailed process of harmonization indicated in document N 418; develop a business case to identify the benefits of this cooperation, including effective use of resources;
seek establishment of a formal agreement with OGC for joint development of imagery and gridded data requirements, if the new work item proposal in document N 404 is accepted. This work will be carried out with other liaisons as appropriate; propose a joint project (case study) with OGC to demonstrate mutual cooperation and the feasibility of implementing the emerging ISO standard (ISO WD 15046-15 Geographic information - Part 15: Metadata).

Unanimous

Resolution 48 - Appointment of liaison representatives

Digital Geographic Information Working Group (DWIWG)	Mr. David Danko
European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG)	Mr. Roger Lott
International Federation of Surveyors (FIG)	Mr. Larry Hothem
International Cartographic Association (ICA)	Ms. Leslie Godwin
International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)	Mr. Norman Andersen
Open GIS Consortium, Incorporated (OGC)	Mr. Olaf Østensen
ISO/IEC/JTC 1/SC 21/WG 3 Open systems interconnection, data management and open distributed processing/Database	Dr. John R. Herring
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 Computer graphics and image processing	Ms. Laura Moore

Unanimous

Resolution 49 -Adjustments of the ISO/TC 211 Programme of work

ISO/TC 211 agrees to the following adjustments in the titles and target dates of the ISO/TC 211 Programme of work, and instructs the secretariat to forward these changes to the ISO Central Secretariat, while recognising that these changes cannot fully accommodate the requirement of quality control and harmonization:

15046-1

Title: Geographic information - Part 1: Reference model

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-03	97-12	98-06	98-12	99-03

15046-2

Title Geographic information - Part 2: Overview

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-09	98-03	98-09	99-03	99-06

15046-3

Title: Geographic information - Part 3: Conceptual schema language

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-01	98-09	99-03	99-09	99-12

15046-4

Title: Geographic information - Part 4: Terminology

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-09	99-12	00-05	00-11	01-02

15046-5

Title: Geographic information - Part 5: Conformance and testing

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-09	98-03	98-09	99-03	99-06

15046-6

Title: Geographic information - Part 6: Profiles

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-09	98-03	98-09	99-03	99-06

15046-7

Title: Geographic information - Part 7: Spatial schema

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-10	98-03	98-09	99-03	99-06

15046-8

Title: Geographic information - Part 8: Temporal schema

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-03	98-03	98-09	99-03	99-06

15046-9

Title: Geographic information - Part 9: Rules for application schema

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-09	98-03	98-09	99-03	99-06

15046-10

Title: Geographic information - Part 10: Feature cataloguing methodology

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-09	98-03	98-09	99-03	99-06

15046-11

Title: Geographic information - Part 11: Spatial referencing by coordinates

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
97-10	98-03	98-09	99-03	99-06

15046-12

Title: Geographic information - Part 12: Spatial referencing by geographic identifiers

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-03	98-01	98-07	98-12	99-03

15046-13

Title: Geographic information - Part 13: Quality principles

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-03	98-01	98-07	98-12	99-03

15046-14

Title: Geographic information - Part 14: Quality evaluation procedures

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-09	98-03	98-09	99-03	99-06

15046-15

Title: Geographic information - Part 15: Metadata

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-03	98-03	98-09	99-03	99-06

15046-16

Title: Geographic information - Part 16: Positioning services

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
97-09	98-03	98-09	99-03	99-06

15046-17

Title: Geographic information - Part 17: Portrayal

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-09	98-03	98-09	99-03	99-06

15046-18

Title: Geographic information - Part 18: Encoding

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-09	98-03	98-09	99-03	99-06

ISO/TC 211 recognises the dependency of this work item with 15046-3 and will revise the dates if necessary at the next plenary.

15046-19

Title: Geographic information - Part 19: Services

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-09	98-03	98-09	99-03	99-06

15046-20

Title: Geographic information - Part 20: Spatial operators

Target dates:

WD	CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
96-09	98-03	98-09	99-03	99-06

15854

Title: Geographic information - Functional standards

Target dates:
TR: 98-03

Unanimous

Resolution 50 - Requirements concerning subsequent meetings

6th plenary	1998-03-05/06	Victoria, BC, Canada
7th plenary	1998-09-24/25	Beijing, China
8th plenary	1999-03	Europe
9th plenary	1999-09/10	Tentative date, offer by Japan

All WGs have decided to have meetings in connection with the plenary meeting in Canada, and provisions for WG meetings are also made in China.

Unanimous

Resolution 51 - External meetings

ISO/TC 211 shall be notified of the participation at the meetings and requires a report after the meetings.

ISO/TC 211 appoints Ms. Kara Kelly to represent ISO/TC 211 at the ISO/TC 204 meeting in Berlin, 1997-10-17.

Unanimous

Appreciations

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to BSI for the excellent reception in the Town Hall on Monday, and asks the BSI also to forward the committee's appreciation to the Lord Mayor of Oxford and AGI.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to Professor David Rhind, Director General of Ordnance Survey, for his kind words of welcome to the delegates.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its pleasure to BSI for arranging the excellent organ recital and dinner Thursday night.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to the arrangement committee, Mr. John Rowley, Ms. Sue Besbrode, Mr. Rob Walker and Mr. Les Rackham, and to Mr. Martin Ford and Ms. Mary Marriott of Loxley Associates, for their organization of the meetings and their helpful assistance throughout the meeting. ISO/TC 211 also expresses its appreciation to Mr. Darren Hunter and Mr. Atul Gautam for their helpful and kind assistance during the meeting.

Acclamation

Resolutions of the 6th Plenary Meeting of ISO/TC 211
Victoria, B.C., Canada
1998-03-05/06

Resolution 52 - Establishment of editing committees

ISO/TC 211 resolves to establish an editing management committee to process the resolution of the comments resulting from the review of the CDs and DIS's circulated to the members.

The editing management committee shall constitute the convenors of the working groups, chaired by the chairman of the TC, and supported by the secretary of the TC.

The editing management committee shall appoint editing committees for individual work items or groups of work items, using the resources provided by the convenors, project leaders and editors, or otherwise the working group members.

The editing committees shall hold at least one meeting to

• appoint an editor for each work item assigned by the editing management committee,
• resolve comments on the drafts from the members,
• report to the editing management committee:
• concerning consistency with all other parts of 15046
• concerning conformance to the Quality control guidelines and
• recommend to the editing management committee on the advancement of drafts to the next stage.

Unanimous

Resolution 53 - Quality control guidelines

ISO/TC 211 resolves that the SWG-QC shall revise the Quality control guidelines to enable self assessment by the project teams and according to the received comments.

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to distribute the updated guidelines before the end of March 1998 for immediate implementation as stated in resolution 46.

In the meantime the existing guidelines shall be used and interpreted in the spirit of this resolution.

Unanimous

Resolution 54 - Cooperation with OGC

ISO/TC 211 supports the intentions of the draft resolutions in document N 503 and instructs the secretariat to consult with the ISO Central Secretariat on the proper method for ISO/TC 211 to process specifications developed by class A liaisons.

The result of this shall be presented in due time for decision at the next plenary in Beijing.

Unanimous

Resolution 55 - Conceptual schema language for specifying ISO 15046

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to carry out an immediate postal ballot on the following resolution:

ISO/TC211 shall use the Unified Modelling Language (UML) static structure diagram with the ISO Interface Definition Language (IDL) basic type definitions and the UML Object Constraint Language (OCL) as the conceptual schema language for specification of the normative parts of ISO 15046. This requirement shall be implemented prior to submission of the parts for CD and DIS.

Justification:

The reason for this decision is that the goal of ISO/TC 211 is to create a framework to enable syntactic interoperability and to support semantic interoperability, while supporting multiple interchange formats and multiple service implementations. UML is selected as the conceptual schema language for producing specifications that can support the creation of such a framework.

ISO/TC 211 resolves to replace the use of OMT by UML for the graphical presentation of conceptual schemas immediately. However, this change shall not be required for the CDs due in March 1998 if this will delay their submission.

Unanimous

Resolution 56 - Progress on WIs Spatial schema and Spatial operators

ISO/TC 211 intends to merge work item 15046-20 Spatial operators into 15046-7 Spatial schema, and instructs the secretariat to consult the ISO Central Secretariat on the formal procedure to be adopted.

Abstention: Sweden
Approved

Resolution 57 - Harmonization on spatial schema and operators

ISO/TC 211 resolves to submit document ISO/TC 211 N 504 Comments and proposals on harmonization of TC 211, SQL/MM and OGC spatial schemas and operators, as a liaison contribution to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 and also invites its individual member bodies to submit this document to their appropriate ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 secretariat, for their consideration in commenting on the current SQL/MM Part 3 Spatial FCD. (The ballot period ends March 18 1998.)

ISO/TC 211 encourages further harmonization between the three groups.

Unanimous

Resolution 58 - NP 16569 Geographic information - Imagery and gridded data

ISO/TC 211 assigns the new work item NP 16569 to Working group 1, and welcomes Dr. Kian Fadaie as the project leader.

Unanimous

Resolution 59 - Terminology

ISO/TC 211 regrets and respects the decision of Sweden to withdraw from the project leadership of 15046-4 Terminology, and thanks Swedish Standards Institution and their representatives for their excellent work.

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to send out a call for a new project leader.

Unanimous

Resolution 60 - Draft new work item proposal on qualification and certification of personnel

ISO/TC 211 invites the National body of Canada to further develop its new work item proposal with relevant international bodies, and if appropriate submit a revised proposal. ISO/TC 211 encourages the National Body of Canada to arrange an international consultation meeting at an appropriate venue, which should be open to ISO/TC 211 members as well as the international bodies.

ISO/TC 211 invites members to submit comments to the National Body of Canada on document ISO/TC 211 N 502 by May 15 1998.

Unanimous

Resolution 61 - Liaison request from CEO, Centre for Earth Observation

ISO/TC 211 welcomes the request for class A liaison from CEO, and instructs the secretariat to advise the ISO Central Secretariat to accept the application.

Unanimous

Resolution 62 - Establishment of liaison with ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2

ISO/TC 211 instructs its secretariat to establish a liaison with ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 - Coded Character Sets.

ISO/TC 211 appoints Mr. Yves Luc Hudon as its liaison representative.

Unanimous

Resolution 63 - Withdrawal of ballot on project 15046-1

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to send out a document withdrawing the ballot, changing the required action on document ISO/TC 211 N 455 to comments only.

Unanimous

Resolution 64 - Adjustments of the ISO/TC 211 Programme of work

ISO/TC 211 adopts the following changes to the programme of work, and instructs the secretariat to distribute an updated version.

15046-7

Title: Geographic information - Part 7: Spatial schema

Target dates:

15046-8

Title: Geographic information - Part 8: Temporal schema

Target dates:

15046-9

Title: Geographic information - Part 9: Rules for application schema

Target dates:

15046-11

Title: Geographic information - Part 11: Spatial referencing by coordinates

Target dates:

15046-12

Title: Geographic information - Part 12: Spatial referencing by geographic identifiers

Target dates:

15046-13

Title: Geographic information - Part 13: Quality principles

Target dates:

15046-14

Title: Geographic information - Part 14: Quality evaluation procedures

Target dates:

15046-15

Title: Geographic information - Part 15: Metadata

Target dates:

15046-16

Title: Geographic information - Part 16: Positioning services

Target dates:

15046-18

Title: Geographic information - Part 18: Encoding

Target dates:

15046-19

Title: Geographic information - Part 19: Services

Target dates:

15046-20

Title: Geographic information - Part 20: Spatial operators

Target dates:

Unanimous

Resolution 65 - Requirements concerning subsequent meetings

ISO/TC 211 adopts the following meeting schedule:

All WGs have decided to have meetings in connection with the plenary meeting in China, and provisions for WG meetings are also made in Austria and Japan.

Unanimous

Resolution 66 - External meetings

ISO/TC 211 asks Professor Tschangho Kim and Ms. Kara Kelly to represent ISO/TC 211 at the ISO/TC 204 meeting in Toronto, Canada, 1998-05-01

ISO/TC 211 asks Mr. Henry Tom to represent ISO/TC 211 at the UN Regional Cartographic Conference in Mexico March 25/27 1998.

Unanimous

Appreciations

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to the Standards Council of Canada (SCC) and the Inter-Agency Committee on Geomatics for hosting the working groups and plenary meetings, and a special thanks to Mr. David McKellar, Mr. Tim Evangelatos, and Ms. Marion Fuller for their excellent preparations for the meetings.

ISO/TC 211 thanks Mr. Mark Corey, chair of Inter-Agency Committee on Geomatics for his welcome address to the committee.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to RadarSat for the excellent reception on Monday night.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to the sponsors who made the meetings possible:

Canadian Hydrographic Service Canadian Institute of Geomatics CGSB ONGC Data Warehouse Technologies Defence Geomatics Inter-Agency Committee on Geomatics L. A. S. Inc. MacDonald Dettwiler Natural Resources Canada, Geomatics Canada Navigation Technologies Canada, Inc. Pacific International Mapping RadarSat International

ISO/TC 211 expresses its pleasure to the hosts for arranging the excellent dinner and entertainment on Thursday evening

ISO/TC 211 finally expresses its appreciation to Mr. Gabe Batstone, Mr. Nick Baldwin, Ms. Linda Baldwin, Ms. Nancy Evangelatos as well as volunteers from the Canadian delegation for their helpful and kind assistance during the meeting.

Acclamation

Resolutions ISO/TC 211 by correspondence

Resolution 67 - Business case for harmonization between ISO/TC 211 and OGC

Abstention: France
Approved by a majority of 17 members

Resolution 68 - Conceptual schema language for specifying ISO 15046

Justification:

The reason for this decision is that the goal of ISO/TC 211 is to create a framework to enable syntactic interoperability and to support semantic interoperability, while supporting multiple interchange formats and multiple service implementations. UML is selected as the conceptual schema language for producing specifications that can support the creation of such a framework.

Disapproval: The Netherlands, Sweden
Abstention: France, New Zealand
Approved by a majority of 16 members

Resolutions of the 7th Plenary Meeting of ISO/TC 211
Beijing, Peoples' Republic of China
1998-09-24/25

Resolution 69 - Conformance clause

Therefore, ISO/TC 211 resolves that a single concise conformance statement be placed always as Clause 2 which references to a normative annex (if required) containing the abstract test suite and detailed requirements.

Unanimous

Resolution 70 - Liaison statement to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 SQL-MM

ISO/TC 211 asks Working Group 2 to prepare a liaison report resulting from the review of the progress of SQL-MM: Part 3 Spatial, and forward this to the ISO/TC 211 secretariat for submission to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32/WG 3 by 1998-10-15.

ISO/TC 211 asks Working Group 3 to contribute to the above report concerning the list of geodetic reference systems and parameters by 1998-10-15.

Unanimous

Resolution 71 - Co-operative agreement between ISO/TC 211 and the Open GIS Consortium, Inc.

ISO/TC 211 instructs the chairman in cooperation with interested members, the OGC and the ISO Central Secretariat to finalize the agreement for ballot by 1998-12-31.

Unanimous

Resolution 72 - Liaison with ISO/TC 204

ISO/TC 211 recognizes the need for ISO/TC 204 to advance their work to meet urgent internal requirements.

ISO/TC 211 believes there is a strong business case for ensuring technical harmonization between ISO/TC 204/WG 3 and ISO/TC 211, and that it is essential to maintain a high level two-way liaison between both TCs and appreciates the continuance of liaison representatives.

ISO/TC 211 extends and welcomes the opportunity for future harmonization with ISO/TC 204 at a mutually agreeable date.

ISO/TC 211 encourages the members to strengthen the liaison at the national level and consider further actions that might be taken.

Unanimous

Resolution 73 - Character sets

Unanimous

Resolution 74 - Liaison request from the International Steering Committee for Global Mapping (ISCGM)

ISO/TC 211 asks the Japanese member body to propose a liaison representative to ISCGM.

Unanimous

Resolution 75 - Cancellation of work item 15046-20

Unanimous

Resolution 76 - Terms of reference for the editing committees

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to send out document N 587 for comments by 1998-12-01.

Unanimous

Resolution 77 - ISO/TC 211 Quality Control Procedures

ISO/TC 211 resolves that the following shall apply provisionally:

1. The ISO/TC 211 Special Working Group - Quality Control Guidelines will be fully implemented to ensure that all parts of ISO 15046 comply with the harmonization and quality objectives in this document.

2. Editing Committees appointed by the Editing Management Committee shall perform an audit of the Quality Control Check List prior to recommending the advancement of any part of ISO 15046. The actions of editing committees will include processing comments regarding harmonization with other parts of the standard.

3. Working Groups shall review committee documents and submit comments to each editing committee as necessary to ensure harmonization with their parts.

4. If necessary, each Editing Committee will initiate activity to resolve any issues involving harmonization of the document with other parts of ISO 15046. The actions that may be taken by the Editing Committee to resolve harmonization issues include, but are not limited to:

a) Progressing a document if harmonization issues are considered not to be critical.

b) Amending a document as required to resolve harmonization issues at the meeting.

c) Convening a continuation editing committee meeting with additional experts representing other parts of ISO 15046 or external organization in order to resolve outstanding harmonization issues.

5. The Special Working Group on Quality Control shall review the Quality Control Guidelines and update it and to include checks to remove unnecessary duplication and ensure consistent cross-referencing within ISO 15046.

6. The Quality Control Guidelines shall include an updated dependency matrix at a subclause level.

Unanimous

Resolution 78 - Harmonization between ISO/TC 184/SC 4 and ISO/TC 211

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to inform other relevant liaison organizations and committees about this meeting, and encourage them to attend.

Unanimous

Resolution 79 - Harmonization with ISO/IEC JTC 1 standards and work items

This includes consultation with ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 and DGIWG with regard to document N 576.

Unanimous

Resolution 80 - Adjustment of target dates of the ISO/TC 211 programme of work

Resolution 81 - New work item proposals

* a new preliminary work item on imagery and gridded data after the submission for ballot of the type 3 technical report 16569, taking into account the proposal of Coverages by WG 2 (WG 1)

* Coverages taking into account work item 16569 (WG 2)

* ISO TS on Geodetic codes and parameters (WG 3)

* Coordinate transformation services, taking into account 15046-7 and 15046-11, Catalogue services (WG 4)

* an amendment to 15854 (WG 5)

Unanimous

Resolution 82 - Distribution of documents prior to meetings

ISO/TC 211 likewise instructs the convenors to distribute WG documents in due time before their meetings and the experts to bring the paper copies they require to the meetings. Copying will only be available for documents issued during the meetings. ISO/TC 211 reminds Working Groups that their reports to TC should be based on agreed resolutions within the working groups.

Unanimous

Resolution 83 - Requirements concerning subsequent meetings

8th plenary	1999-03-04/05	Vienna, Austria
9th plenary	1999-09-29/30	Kyoto, Japan
10th plenary	2000-03-09/10	South Africa - to be confirmed
11th plenary	2000-09-28/29	USA - to be confirmed

Provisions for WG meetings are made in Austria and Japan.

Unanimous

Appreciations

ISO/TC 211 thanks Mr. Jin Xiangwen, Director General and Mr. Wang Chunfeng, Deputy Director General of the State Bureau of Surveying & Mapping, and Mr. Su Xhongmin, Director Assistant of CSMTS for their welcome address to the committee.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to the State Bureau of Surveying & Mapping for the excellent reception on Monday night, and for providing the delegates with lunch every day.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its pleasure to the hosts for arranging the excellent dinner at the Beijing Duck restaurant on Thursday evening.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to Mr. Bai Bo, Mr. Wang Qian, Mr. Zhang Weiping, Mr. Fan Jingsheng, Mr. Sun Baowu, Mr. Yang Heping, Ms. Zhang Pengpeng, Ms. Xu Hui, Ms. Jin Wenhong, Ms. Jiang Xiashong, Mr. Liu Xianhua and Mr. He Xinjian for their helpful and kind assistance during the meeting.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to the hosts for arranging technical excursions and sightseeing, for the delegates as well as for the accompanying persons. ISO/TC 211 finally expresses its appreciation to Ms. Xu Hui, Mr. Wang Qian and Mr. Fan Jingsheng for accompanying the visitors on excursions.

Acclamation

Resolutions of the 8th plenary meeting of ISO/TC 211
Vienna, Austria, 1999-03-04/05

Resolution 84 - Change of WG 3 convenor

ISO/TC 211 welcomes and accepts the nomination from the United Kingdom of Mr. Neil Smith as the new convenor.

Unanimous

Resolution 85 - Resignation of WG 5 convenor

Until the next plenary meeting in Kyoto, the chairman, Mr. Olaf Østensen will convene WG 5.

Unanimous

Resolution 86 - Project leader of 15046-4 Geographic information - Part 4: Terminology

Unanimous

Resolution 87 - Free availability of ISO 15046-4 Geographic information - Part 4: Terminology

Unanimous

Resolution 88 - Free availability of ISO 15046-2 Geographic information - Part 2: Overview

Unanimous

Resolution 89 - French language version of ISO/TC 211 standards and reports

Unanimous

Resolution 90 - Liaison representative from ISO/TC 211 to the International Steering Committee for Global Mapping, ISCGM

Unanimous

Resolution 91 - Cultural and linguistic adaptability

ISO/TC 211 requests its chairman to compile these comments and prepare a summary for review by members prior to the 9th Plenary in Kyoto. ISO/TC 211 requests its chairman to convene during the meeting week in Kyoto a workshop to address the summary report on cultural and linguistic adaptability within ISO/TC 211.

Unanimous

Resolution 92 - Unique identifiers for encoding purposes

The work shall address the issue of cultural and linguistic adaptability, and be completed in time to be sent out one month prior to 9th ISO/TC 211 Plenary in Kyoto.

Against: Finland, Sweden
Accepted

Resolution 93 - Forming ISO/TC 211 Model harmonization team

The result will be made available at the Kyoto meeting.

Unanimous

Resolution 94 - Co-operative agreement between ISO/TC 211 and the Open GIS Consortium, Inc.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to Mr. John Rowley and Mr. Martin Ford for their work with the establishment of the agreement.

Unanimous

Resolution 95 - Terms of reference for the ISO/TC 211 / OGC co-ordination group (TOCG)

The co-ordination group shall begin its work as soon as possible, and shall in particular monitor progress on the development of new work item proposals reported by working groups at the 8th plenary.

All activities of the co-ordination group shall abide with the ISO Directives.

Unanimous

Resolution 96 - Identification of dependencies

• ISO/TC 211 is developing a suite of standards that are highly interdependent;
• many of these standards development projects are nearing completion;
• the documentation of dependencies between the parts of the suite of ISO/TC 211 standards assists in the development of standards within ISO/TC 211;
• the development of profiles of the ISO/TC 211 standards requires the identification of the dependencies between the elements being profiled and the other parts of the suite of ISO/TC 211 standards and external standards;
• The dependency matrix previously developed in ISO/TC 211 is now out of date;
• the resources within ISO/TC 211 are limited;

Unanimous

Resolution 97 - Product specification

ISO/TC 211 asks working groups 3 and 5 to work together to develop such a template for inclusion within ISO 15046-6 Geographic information - Part 6: Profiles. This is an urgent requirement; both working groups shall present a report on feasibility and progress at the 9th Plenary.

Unanimous

Resolution 98 - Co-operation with class A liaison organizations

ISO/TC 211 also invites other liaison organization to consider this issue.

Unanimous

Resolution 99 - Adjustment of target dates of the ISO/TC 211 programme of work

16822	Geographic information/Geomatics - Qualifications and Certification of personnell	Preliminary to WG 5
N 616	Geographic information - Schema for coverage geometry and functions	WG 2
N 616	Geographic information - Imagery and gridded data components	WG 1

Unanimous

Resolution 100 - Members' participation

• notify the ISO Central Secretariat to make sure that P-members that have been persistently inactive have their membership status changed to O-members.
• notify those P-members that have failed to vote and/or participate that unless they provide an undertaking to increase their participation within 3 months, the ISO Central Secretariat will be notified to change their membership to O-member.

Unanimous

Resolution 101 - Requirements concerning subsequent meetings

Unanimous

Appreciations

ISO/TC 211 also expresses its appreciation to the Federal Capital Vienna and Stadtbaudirektör Dipl. ing. Weber for the excellent reception in Rathauskeller on Thursday.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to Dr. Johann Bogath, Ms. Hedy Sandtner, Ms. Elisabeth Ettel and Ms. Claudia Stowasser for their excellent support to the delegates during the meeting.

Acclamation

Resolutions of the 9th plenary meeting of ISO/TC 211
Kyoto, Japan 1999-09-29/30

Resolution 102 Liaison request from The Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS)

Unanimous
 

Resolution 103 Request for liaison with ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 35

Unanimous
 

Resolution 104 Cultural and Linguistic Adaptability (CLA)

ISO/TC 211 welcomes the offer from the NB of Canada to carry out a survey of relevant places in the standards under development by ISO/TC 211 where CLA should be taken into account. The survey, which shall include an impact analysis, shall be presented at the next plenary, where ISO/TC 211 shall decide how to implement the principles.

Compliance with CLA principles should not delay the progress of accepted work items - where appropriate work on technical addenda, or other means, should be started as soon as practically possible.

Unanimous
 

Resolution 105 Equivalence tables

ISO/TC 211 requests that the Encoding Project Team with Canada's assistance produce a case study/test of the use of equivalence tables for the use of localization and encoding. The study shall be sent out for review by the national bodies one month prior to the Cape Town meetings.

Pending a successful review of this test, ISO/TC 211 adopts the use of equivalence tables.

Unanimous
 

Resolution 106 Terminology editing committee

The editing committee for Terminology shall at the Cape Town editing meeting make the necessary decisions, based on formal comments on the next Terminology CD, to ensure that all terms listed in the normative clause(s) of Terminology CD shall have a single definition where consensus is achieved. Similarly, the EC shall ensure that individual concepts are associated with only a single term and definition. These decisions shall be made in accordance with N 651. Thereafter, all ISO/TC 211 documents shall use the terms, concepts, and definitions in the Terminology standard. Document WG 1 N 207 contains all current terms used in ISO/TC 211. Any changes by editors need to be received by 1999-10-21.

The next release of Terminology shall be distributed as a CD for Comment in accordance with the decisions of the Editing Management Committee. This document shall contain all terms and definitions used in the different ISO/TC 211 drafts including terms that currently have multiple definitions.

Any terms or concepts for which consensus cannot be gained on a single definition shall be placed in an informative annex of the Terminology standard containing candidate terms.

All Project Leaders and Editors shall receive a copy of comments on the next Terminology CD, and are requested to provide feedback before the editing committee meeting to resolve differences in use of terms, concepts, and definitions.

Unanimous
 

Resolution 107 Advisory Group for the creation of strategic direction statement for ISO/TC 211

ISO/TC 211 secretariat will as necessary distribute agendas and announce date and location for the meeting(s) of the advisory group. The chairman will convene the meeting(s).

The first draft of the strategic direction statement shall be presented at the 10th Plenary meeting 2000-03-09/10.

Unanimous
 

Resolution 108 New work item: Geographic information - Simple feature access - SQL option

ISO/TC 211 asks Working Group 4 to prepare the Committee Draft for ballot by 1999-11-15, based on the draft accompanying the new work item proposal and the comments accompanying the votes on this proposal.

Unanimous
 

Resolution 109 Renumbering of the ISO/TC 211 projects

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat, in cooperation with the convenors and project leaders, to update the drafts according to the new numbers.

Unanimous
 

Resolution 110 2nd Committee Drafts for comments

CD 15046-7 Geographic information - Part 7 Spatial schema
CD 15046-9 Geographic information - Part 9: Rules for application schema
CD 15046-14 Geographic information - Part 14: Quality evaluation procedures
CD 15046-15 Geographic information - Part 15: Metadata

ISO/TC 211 instructs the editing committee to submit the new drafts to the secretariat at the latest by 1999-11-15 in order to have the comments back for editing at the meetings in South Africa in March 2000.

Unanimous
 

Resolution 111 Committee Drafts for 2nd vote

CD 15046-13 Geographic information - Part 13: Quality principles
CD 15046-17 Geographic information - Part 17: Portrayal

ISO/TC 211 instructs the editing committee to submit the new drafts to the secretariat at the latest by 1999-11-15 in order to have the comments back for editing at the meetings in South Africa in March 2000.

Unanimous
 

Resolution 112 Work item 16822

Unanimous
 

Resolution 113 Working Group 5

Unanimous
 

Resolution 114 Adjustment of target dates of the ISO/TC 211 programme of work

Unanimous
 

Resolution 115 Requirements concerning subsequent meetings

ISO/TC 211 adopts the following meeting schedule:

10th plenary 2000-03-09/10 Cape Town, South Africa

11th plenary 2000-09-07/08 Reston, USA, to be reconfirmed

12th plenary 2001-03 Portugal, dates to be confirmed

13th plenary 2001-09/10 TBD

Provisions for WG meetings and editing meetings are made in Cape Town. Provisions for these meetings will also be made in connection with the 11th and 12th plenary.

Unanimous
 

Appreciations

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to Professor Masao Iri for his welcome address to the committee.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to the Kyoto Prefecture, the City of Kyoto, Kyoto Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Kyoto Convention Bureau for the excellent reception given on Monday evening, and the striking entertainment.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciations to the hosts for arranging the excellent gala dinner on Wednesday evening, and the excellent entertainment provided.

ISO/TC 211 also expresses its gratitude to Director General Motoyuki Kidokoro of GSI, Mr. Kazuo Inaba, Mr. Taketsune Hosono and Ms. Reiko Yoshikawa and their staff for the excellent arrangement and provisions before and during the meeting.

Acclamation

Resolutions of the 10h plenary meeting of ISO/TC 211
Cape Town, South Africa, 2000-03-09/10

Resolution 116    Liaison request from the World Meteorological Organization

Unanimous

Resolution 117    Testbed for ISO/TC 211 standards

ISO/TC 211 recognizes the value of the Open GIS Consortium (OGC) WEB Mapping Testbed for testing multiple vendor implementations of standards and the interoperability of these implementations. Consequently ISO/TC 211 asks the ISO/TC 211 - OGC Coordination Group (TOCG) to request that OGC tests the drafts of the Geographic information Metadata and Portrayal standards. The version of the documents is to be defined by the TOCG.

The result of such testing will be used for further refinement of these standards as they progress to final approval as ISO standards.

ISO/TC 211 encourages its member nations to assist OGC in recruiting sponsors to champion these efforts.

Unanimous

Resolution 118    Cooperation with ISO/IEC JTC 1

ISO/TC 211 instructs its secretariat to address ISO/IEC JTC 1 expressing its concern about the proposed change of Area of Work for ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 to include "environmental representation" or "synthetic environment". These terms are not well defined, and are too general to be used without conflicts with the scopes of other ISO committees/subcommittees, and specifically with ISO/TC 211.

ISO/TC 211 instructs its secretariat to contact ISO/IEC JTC 1 with a request to review the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 Area of Work before it goes out for balloting.

Recent new work item proposals in ISO/IEC JTC 1 appear to have technical overlap that needs to be resolved. ISO/TC 211 acknowledges the demand for extending the work of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 in the direction of modelling and simulation. This should be done based upon and as an extension to the work of ISO/TC 211. ISO/TC 211 offers to cooperate with ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 to achieve this.

Unanimous

Resolution 119    Coordination of spatial standardization

ISO/TC 211 welcomes the offer of ISO/IEC JTC 1 to host at most two meetings to discuss planning of spatial standardization. ISO/TC 211 thanks Mr. Martin Ford for his conduct of the first meeting in California and agrees with the draft Position Paper that resulted from the meeting.

As a response to the demand for a more permanent structure, ISO/TC 211 suggests the formation of a coordination group, consisting of interested parties, and is willing to chair this coordination group. The group should be open for ISO committees and subcommittees and selected liaison and other organizations, including the Open GIS Consortium, DGIWG and the SEDRIS organization.

The coordination group should identify technical overlaps and opportunities for cooperation in the joint development of spatial standards.

ISO/TC 211 requests Mr. Martin Ford to include this item on the agenda for the next meeting of the group in Geneva in May.

Unanimous

Resolution 120    Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI)

ISO/TC 211 recognizes the GSDI initiative and encourages its member representatives going to the GSDI conference in Cape Town next week, to promote a closer cooperation between GSDI and ISO/TC 211, and to consider the possibilities for GSDI to apply for class A liaison with ISO/TC 211.

Unanimous

Resolution 121    Adjustment of target dates of the ISO/TC 211 programme of work

Bold = Delivered documents
 

Project no	WD	CD	2. CD	3. CD	DIS	FDIS	IS
19101	96-03	98-01	1998-12		2000-06	2001-01	2001-03
19102	96-09	98-07	1999-04		2001-09	2002-05	2002-07
19103	96-01	1999-07	2000- 05				TS 2000-11
19104	96-09	1999-05	1999-11	2000-05	2000-11	2001-06	2001-08
19105	96-09	98-04	1998-10		1999-08	2000-03	2000-05
19106	96-09	1999-11	2000-11		2001-04	2001-09	2001-11
19107	96-10	99-01	1999-11	2000-05	2000-10	2001-03	2001-05
19108	96-03	98-11	1999-11		2000-07	2000-12	2001-02
19109	96-09	98-12	2000-03	2000-07	2000-12	2001-05	2001-08
19110	96-09	98-04	1998-11		2000-04	2000-09	2000-11
19111	97-12	98-11	1999-11		2000-05	2000-10	2000-12
19112	96-03	98-05	1999-12		2000-05	2000-10	2000-12
19113	96-03	98-04	1998-11	1999-11	2000-03	2000-08	2000-10
19114	96-09	99-01	1999-11	2000-06	2000-11	2001-04	2001-06
19115	96-03	98-07	1999-11	2000-05	2000-11	2001-05	2001-07
19116	97-09	1999-11	2000-04		2000-08	2001-02	2001-04
19117	96-09	98-05	1999-06	1999-11	2000-04	2000-09	2000-11
19118	96-09	99-03	2000-03		2000-07	2000-12	2001-02
19119	96-09	2000-03	2000-07		2000-12	2001-05	2001-08
19120		PDTR 98-07	1999-04				TR  2000-03
19121		PDTR 98-11	1999-06				TR  2000-03
19122		PDTR 2000-12	2001-06				TR  2001-09
19123	1999-04	2000-05	2000-11		2001-05	2001-11	2002-01
19124	Stage 0						ER  2001-01
19125-1		1999-11			2000-05	2000-10	2000-12

Unanimous

Resolution 122    Allocation of new work items

ISO/TC 211 recognizes the approval of the following new work items:

Geographic information - Profile - FACC Data Dictionary

ISO/TC 211 assigns the new project to Working Group 3, and the project leader is Ms. Debra LaMarque.

Geographic information - Functional standards - Technical amendment

ISO/TC 211 assigns the new project to Working Group 5, and the project leader is Ms. Debra LaMarque.

Geographic information - Geodetic codes and parameters

ISO/TC 211 assigns the new project to Working Group 3, and the project leader is Ms. Julie Binder Maitra.

Unanimous

Resolution 123    Conformance statement for ISO/TC 211 standards

ISO/TC 211 requests the secretariat to conduct a request for comments regarding the inclusion of the following conformance statement in each of the ISO/TC 211 standards:

Conformance to the ISO/TC 211 suite of standards

The objectives of the ISO/TC 211 standards, which include inter-working and data sharing, can be realised only if products are fully compliant. Nevertheless it is recognised that ensuring full compliance can be onerous and in some cases unnecessary. Consequently there are two levels of compliance with the ISO/TC 211 suite of standards.

Level A Full compliance

Full compliance to the ISO/TC 211 suite of standards requires that specifications, including any profile or functional standard, shall:

a)    include a conformance clause and an abstract test suite in accordance with ISO 19105,

b)    state, in the conformance clause, to which standards in the 19100 series it conforms,

c)    not conflict with any standard in the 19100 series and

d)    include in the conformance clause the statement - 'The requirements of this document do not conflict with any ISO/TC 211 standard.'

Level B compliance

Level B compliance to the 19100 suite of standards requires that specifications, including any profile or functional standard, shall:

a)    include a conformance clause and an abstract test suite in accordance with ISO 19105,

b)    state, in the conformance clause, to which standards in the 19100 series it conforms and,

c)    include in the conformance clause the statement - 'Conformance with other 19100 series standards is not known and consequently a conflict may exist which will prevent inter-working and/or data sharing with fully compliant products.'

Unanimous

Resolution 124    Agreement between Digital Geographic Information Working Group (DGIWG) and ISO/TC 211

ISO/TC 211 welcomes the draft cooperation agreement from DGIWG, and asks its members to submit comments to the secretariat by 2000-04-01.

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to prepare a revised draft based upon the comments, in consultation with the ISO Central Secretariat, DGIWG's steering committee and the ISO/TC 211 advisory group on strategic directions, and submit the revised draft for a letter ballot by 2000-07-01.

Unanimous

Resolution 125    Editor for WI 19119

ISO/TC 211 welcomes the offer from the United States of America, and appoints Mr. George Percivall as editor for WI 19119, to assist the project leader in drafting the CD.

Unanimous

Resolution 126    Liaison representative to the Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC)

ISO/TC 211 accepts the nomination from the United Kingdom, and appoints Mr. John Rowley to represent ISO/TC 211 to OGC in addition to Mr. Olaf Østensen.

Unanimous

Resolution 127    Liaison representative to CEOS/WGISS

ISO/TC 211 accepts the nomination from the United States of America, and appoints Mr. George Percivall as liaison representative from ISO/TC 211 to CEOS/WGISS.

Unanimous

Resolution 128    Liaison representative to the International Association of Geodesy (IAG)

ISO/TC 211 accepts the nomination from the United States of America, and appoints Mr. Larry Hothem as liaison representative from ISO/TC 211 to IAG.

Unanimous

Resolution 129    Liaison representative to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24

ISO/TC 211 accepts the nomination from the United Kingdom, and appoints Mr. Martin Ford as liaison representative from ISO/TC 211 to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24 in addition to Ms. Laura Moore.

Unanimous

Resolution 130    Liaison representative to ISO/TC 204

ISO/TC 211 accepts the nomination from the United Kingdom, and appoints Mr. Chris Gower as liaison representative from ISO/TC 211 to ISO/TC 204 to replace Professor Tschangho Kim, who wants to relinquish his position.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to Professor Kim for his work on this liaison.

Unanimous

Resolution 131    Liaison representative to ISO/TC 46/WG 2

ISO/TC 211 accepts the nomination from the United Kingdom, and appoints Dr. Robert Walker as liaison representative from ISO/TC 211 to ISO/TC 46/WG 2.

Unanimous

Resolution 132    Editing committee guideline

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to revise the editing committee guidelines to include pre-processing of comments prior to meetings, and distribute the updated guidelines to the members.

ISO/TC 211 reminds the editing committees to resolve and adjudicate all comments and to assure explanation is given for rejected comments.

Unanimous

Resolution 133    Study of the use of registry for elements

ISO/TC 211 requests that NBs, WG convenors, and project leaders examine the requirements for registries of elements within the ISO/TC 211 standards in preparation for a workshop to be held in connection with the next plenary meeting, which will address the manner by which registration of elements such as metadata elements can be handled.

The issue of code lists and multi-lingual free text shall also be addressed in the workshop.

ISO/TC 211 accepts the offer from Canada, Saudi Arabia, UK and USA to provide an analysis to be presented at the workshop. Mr. Yves Hudon offers to coordinate the work.

Contributions to the analysis should be provided to the secretariat by June 1, 2000.

The implementation of such registries will not be permitted to impact the schedule of work on any standard.

Unanimous

Resolution 134    ISO/TC 211 maintenance agency and registration authority

ISO/TC 211 requests that the secretariat consults with the ISO Central Secretariat and provide recommendations for establishing a maintenance agency and registration authority.

The result of the enquiry shall be circulated at the latest one month prior to the Reston plenary.

Unanimous

Resolution 135    Interim terminology maintenance procedures
ISO/TC 211 authorizes the ISO 19104 Terminology editing committee to review the ISO 19104 document and to make recommendations as follows:
 

• The ISO 19104 Terminology editing committee is authorized to meet periodically until the formation of a maintenance agency for purposes of conducting the activities listed below. The activities described below will be directed by Mr. Martin Ford as Editing committee chairman.
• The ISO 19104 Terminology editing committee shall make recommendations for amendments under ISO Directives 1, clauses 2.10.2 and 2.10.3. through NWIPs after ISO 19104 reaches DIS stage.
• The Terminology editing committee shall receive recommendations from other ISO/TC 211 ECs on terminology, report progress of harmonization effort and recommend terminology maintenance procedures.
• The efforts shall be guided by the scope and purpose statements for ISO 19104 Terminology as approved by ISO/TC 211. The ISO 19104 Terminology editing committee may recommend revision of its terms of reference and scope after six months.
• The ISO 19104 Terminology editing committee will establish a web database of the terminology of geographic information prior to the elevation of ISO 19104 to DIS. This shall be done in cooperation with the secretariat.
• The ISO 19104 Terminology editing committee may propose terminology maintenance procedures for ISO/TC 211 to be presented at the next plenary.

Resolution 136    Request for liaison with ISO/TC 130

ISO/TC 211 instructs its secretariat to request liaison with ISO/TC 130 Graphic technology.

Unanimous

Resolution 137    New work item proposal on product specifications

In view of national body comments submitted on CD 19106 Geographic information - Profiles, more work is required in the areas of product specifications and implementation specifications.

ISO/TC 211 asks the chairman of the 19106 editing committee, Mr. Parry Wiseman, to organize the drafting of a new work item proposal on product specifications.

Unanimous

Resolution 138    New member of ISO/TC 211 - OGC Coordination Group (TOCG)

ISO/TC 211 accepts the nomination from Canada, and appoints Mr. Paul Morin as a new member of the ISO/TC 211 - OGC Coordination Group (TOCG).

Unanimous

Resolution 139    WG 2 convenor resignation

ISO/TC 211 regrets Dr. Ken Bullock's resignation as WG 2 convenor and thanks him for the excellent work and his personal dedication to the work of WG 2 and ISO/TC 211.

ISO/TC 211 request the NB of Australia to consider nomination of a replacement for Dr. Bullock as the WG 2 convenor.

Unanimous

Resolution 140    Requirements concerning subsequent meetings

ISO/TC 211 adopts the following meeting schedule:

11th plenary	2000-09-07/08	Reston, USA
12th plenary	2001-03-08/09	Lisbon, Portugal
13th plenary	2001/2002	TBD

Provisions are made for editing committee meetings and WG meetings in the USA and Portugal prior to the plenary.

Unanimous
 
 

Appreciations

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) for hosting the working groups, editing and plenary meetings, and providing the committee with excellent meetings facilities. ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to Mr. Adolf Claasen, manager of the Electrotechnical Standard Department in SABS, for his welcome address to the plenary.

ISO/TC 211 also expresses its appreciation to the South African Bureau of Standards for the welcome reception given on Monday evening, and Mr. Tom Gash, manager of the regional office of SABS in Cape Town, for the welcome address.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to the host for arranging the excellent dinner on Thursday evening, Mr. Derek Clarke, Chief Directorate Surveys and Mapping, for his welcoming words, and for the exciting entertainment provided by the Women United.

ISO/TC 211 also expresses its gratitude to Mrs. Liana Benecke, Mrs. Ronèl Pretorius and Mrs. Isabel Rennison for their excellent preparations for the meetings, the arrangement and their support during the meeting.

Acclamation

Resolutions of the 11th plenary meeting of ISO/TC 211
Reston, Virginia, USA, 2000-09-07/08

Resolution 141 Liaison request from the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Union

Unanimous

Resolution 142 Location based services

• ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to send out a call for nominations from the bodies mentioned above. The nominations shall be made within 6 weeks from the call notice.
• ISO/TC 211 instructs the Advisory Group to prepare a NWI proposing a Stage 0 Review Summary as soon as possible.
• ISO/TC 211 authorizes the Advisory Group to begin work in advance of the acceptance of the NWI.

The group shall have the option to present required draft NWIs to the 12th plenary.

Unanimous

Resolution 143 Registration of ISO CD 19110, Geographic information - Feature cataloguing methodology as DIS

• Annex B (normative) in ISO CD 19110 will include General Feature Model (GFM) from ISO CD 19109, Rules for application schema.
• Annex B will include mapping of concepts in ISO CD 19110 to classes in GFM, with explanations of the differences.
• Additions will be made to the GFM to document requirements for feature catalogues, with possible recommended improvements to future editions of GFM in ISO 19109.
• Table B.1 and Figure B.1 shall be consistent.
• Add "inverse relationship" to example catalogue (Annex D.2) to be consistent with Table B.1.
• Change domain in Table B.1, element 34, from "IDL basic data types" to "free text".
• Extend "feature catalogue" section of Table B.1 to allow references to external sources for (a) definitions of attribute values, (b) codes for features, attributes, attribute values, and relationships, and (c) data types for attribute values.
• Make other editorial changes as required.

ISO/TC 211 further instructs the secretariat to forward the amended document to the ISO Central Secretariat for publication as DIS.

Unanimous

Resolution 144 Registration of ISO CD 19125-1 Geographic information - Simple feature access - Part 1: Common architecture and ISO CD 19125-2 Geographic information - Simple feature access - Part 2: SQL option as DIS

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to:

1.    make necessary editorial amendments of the drafts

• ISO CD 19125-1, Geographic information - Simple feature access - Part 1: Common architecture (document N 969)
• ISO CD 19125-2, Geographic information - Simple feature access - Part 2: SQL option (document N 970)

Abstention: Switzerland
Approved

Resolution 145 Registration of ISO CD 19108, Geographic information - Temporal schema as DIS

Unanimous

Resolution 146 Registration of ISO CD 19113, Geographic information - Quality principles as DIS

• Replace 4.3 Conformance quality level definition by the definition given in ISO CD 19114;
• Harmonize the use of the term "data quality evaluation procedure" with ISO CD 19114;
• Modify 6.1.5.3 Data quality evaluation procedures to include reporting quality information as one part of the quality evaluation procedure;
• Make other editorial changes as required.

ISO/TC 211 further instructs the secretariat to forward the amended document to the ISO Central Secretariat for publication as DIS.

Against: Sweden
Abstains: Switzerland
Approved

Resolution 147 Registration of ISO CD 19111, Geographic information - Spatial referencing by coordinates as DIS

• Revise definitions for 'geodetic datum', 'Greenwich meridian', 'mean sea level';
• Preface terms 'conversion', 'operation' and 'transformation' by 'coordinate';
• Remove inconsistency in requirements of a geodetic datum;
• Correct figures 1 and 2;
• Add reference for basic UML datatypes;
• Change the example in Annex E.4;
• Make other editorial changes as required.

Unanimous

Resolution 148 Delegation to the meeting of the Joint steering group for spatial standardization and related interoperability in Reston, 2000-09-11/12

Unanimous

Resolution 149 Link on the ISO Central Secretariat WEB pages to ISO/TC 211

Unanimous

Resolution 150 ISO/TC 211 Business Plan

Unanimous

Resolution 151 Proposal for a registry

ISO/TC 211 establishes an Advisory Group for Registry to work until the next plenary. Based upon the results of the workshop, the group shall prepare a concrete proposal on the establishment and use of a registry for the requirements of ISO/TC 211. The proposal shall include the practical arrangement and procedures for the registry, and - as far as a possible - a practical pilot demonstration of an internet based tool for the registry. The proposal shall be circulated at least one month before the next plenary in Lisbon, and shall be presented at the plenary.

The group shall consist of Mr. Yves Hudon, Mr. Erhard Pross, Mr. David Danko, Mr. Parry Wiseman, Mr. Cliff Kottman, Mr. Abdullah Al-Shahrani, Mr. Douglas O'Brien and Mr. Herman Dohmann and shall operate in close contact with the secretariat.

ISO/TC 211 accepts Mr. Yves Hudon's offers to coordinate the work.

Unanimous

Resolution 152 Proposed resolutions of the Editing Committee (EC) on 19104: Terminology

Unanimous

Resolution 153 Convenor of Working Group 2

Unanimous

Resolution 154 Convenor of Working Group 3

Unanimous

Resolution 155 New work items

Unanimous

Resolution 156 Liaison representatives to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to Mr. Martin Ford for his work on this liaison.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to Ms. Laura Moore for her work on this liaison. Ms. Moore will now resign as representative from ISO/TC 211, as she is now appointed acting chair of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24.

Unanimous

Resolution 157 Liaison representatives to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 35

Unanimous

Resolution 158 Liaison representatives to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32

Unanimous

Resolution 159 Presentations from member bodies

ISO/TC 211 appreciates the presentation from ESRI and IONIC on the implementation of simple feature access and web map server interface.

ISO/TC 211 appreciates these demonstrations of the implementation of these developing standards.

Unanimous

Resolution 160 Workshop on standards in action

ISO/TC 211 invites the national bodies of Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Russia, Switzerland, USA, and other member bodies to prepare presentations and to assess the applicability of standard testbeds at the workshop in Lisbon.

The preparations for the workshop will be coordinated by the chairman of ISO/TC 211.

Members who want to give presentations shall notify the secretariat no later than 2000-12-31, and provide an outline of their presentations and additional requirements.

Unanimous

Resolution 161 Adjustment of target dates of the ISO/TC 211 programme of work

Unanimous

Resolution 162 Invitation to SEDRIS to apply for liaison

Unanimous

Resolution 163 Requirements concerning subsequent meetings

Unanimous

Appreciations

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to the US Bureau of the Census, FGDC, NASA, Inform Worldwide, Lockheed Martin, Global Science Technology, Oracle Corporation and NIMA for making the arrangement possible by their sponsoring.

ISO/TC 211 also expresses its appreciation to the hosts and sponsors for the excellent reception for the delegates and their accompanying persons on Monday evening, and to Mr. Jack Pellicci, Vice President of Oracle Corporation and Ms. Roberta Lenczowski, Deputy Director for Operations at NIMA, for their welcoming addresses to the delegates.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to the host for arranging the excellent dinner and entertainment on Thursday evening.

ISO/TC 211 also expresses its gratitude to the chairman of NCITS/L1, Mr. Henry Tom and the members of NCITS/L1 who contributed to the arrangements; Mr. Norman Andersen, Mr. Fred. Broome, Mr. Rex Buckley, Mr. Dave Danko, Ms. Leslie Godwin, Dr. John Herring, Mr. Larry Hothem, Mr. Ben Kobler, Mr. George Percivall, Dr. Charles Roswell, Mr. Shawn Silkensen and Ms. Tracee Walker, for their support during the meetings, and Ms. Patricia Lespoir, Oracle Corporation, for her support services to the delegates during the meetings.

Acclamation

Resolutions of the 12th plenary meeting of ISO/TC 211
Lisbon, Portugal, 2001-03-08/09

Resolution 164 Updating of conformance clauses

In anticipation of approval of the drafts, ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to implement the updated conformance clauses in the following Draft International Standards, before they are issued as FDIS:

        ISO/DIS 19108 Geographic information - Temporal schema
        ISO/DIS 19111 Geographic information - Spatial referencing by coordinates
        ISO/DIS 19113 Geographic information - Quality principles
        ISO/DIS 19125-1 Geographic information - Simple feature access - Part 1: Common architecture
        ISO/DIS 19125-2 Geographic information - Simple feature access - Part 2: SQL option

ISO/TC 211 further instructs the secretariat to implement the updated conformance clauses in the following documents before they are sent to ISO to be issued as Draft International Standards:
        ISO/CD 19107 Geographic information - Spatial schema
        ISO/CD 19110 Geographic information - Feature cataloguing methodology
        ISO/CD 19112 Geographic information - Spatial referencing by geographic identifiers
        ISO/CD 19114 Geographic information - Quality evaluation procedures
        ISO/CD 19115 Geographic information - Metadata

ISO/TC 211 further instructs the editing committees of the following projects to implement updated conformance clauses in the drafts before they are forwarded to the secretariat as DIS proposals:
        ISO/CD 19106 Geographic information - Profiles
        ISO/CD 19109 Geographic information - Rules for application schema
        ISO/CD 19117 Geographic information - Portrayal
        ISO/CD 19118 Geographic information - Encoding

Unanimous

Resolution 165 Registration of ISO CD 19107, Geographic information - Spatial schema as DIS

ISO/TC 211 further instructs the secretariat to forward the amended document to the ISO Central Secretariat for publication as DIS.

Unanimous

Resolution 166 Registration of ISO CD 19112, Geographic information - Spatial referencing by geographic identifiers

• Clarification of presentation of UML models;
• Other editorial changes as required.

Unanimous

Resolution 167 Registration of ISO CD 19114, Geographic information - Quality evaluation procedures

• Improve consistency of the use of fundamental terms for quality evaluation;
• Modification of some examples of quality measures in Annex D;
• Revision of Annex E on sampling methods to simplify and make the content consistent with the main text;
• Other editorial changes as required.

Unanimous

Resolution 168 Registration of ISO CD 19115, Geographic information - Metadata

• Expand the explanation of the core metadata set to include reference to the data dictionary element names;
• Correct identified errors;
• Make improvements to the XML DTD in the metadata profile Annex;
• Make other editorial changes as required.

Unanimous

Resolution 169 Advisory Group on strategy

ISO/TC 211 invites members to submit papers related to the strategy by 2001-05-01.

Unanimous

Resolution 170 Advisory Group on web server interface for geographic information

Unanimous

Resolution 171 Adjustment of target dates of the ISO/TC 211 programme of work

Unanimous

Resolution 172 Recognition of new work items

WI 19129 Geographic information - Imagery, gridded and coverage data framework
        Project leader: Dr. Kian Fadaie

WI 19130 Geographic information - Sensor and data models for imagery and gridded data
        Project leader: Professor Liping Di, editor: Professor Wolfgang Kresse

Unanimous

Resolution 173 New work item on spatio-temporal schema

Unanimous

Resolution 174 Need for profiles of ISO 19107

Unanimous

Resolution 175 Working group membership

Each WG shall only include experts nominated to the projects assigned to that group. The assignment ceases when a project reaches the CD stage.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its thanks to all the experts that have been working in the projects that have now reached the CD, DIS, FDIS, TR or IS stage, for their contribution to the development of the drafts.

Unanimous

Resolution 176 Cooperation with ISO/TC 204

ISO/TC 211 invites members to nominate experts to the task force before April 15, 2001. The task force will be coordinated by Mr. Christopher J. Gower, the liaison representative to ISO/TC 204.

ISO/TC 211 asks the chairman to reply to the letter from the ISO/TC 204 chairman, informing him about the above.

Unanimous

Resolution 177 Marketing and testing of ISO/TC 211 standards

Test results shall be taken into account during the amendment process.

Unanimous

Resolution 178 WG 1 convenor resignation

ISO/TC 211 invites the NB of USA to consider nomination of a replacement for Mr. Dabrowski as the WG 1 convenor.

Unanimous

Resolution 179 Workshops

Unanimous

Resolution 180 Approval of liaison request from the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI)

Unanimous

Resolution 181 Approval of liaison request from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)

Unanimous

Resolution 182 Requirements concerning subsequent meetings

Unanimous

Appreciations

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to the Army Geographic Institute (IGeoE), the Institute of Hydraulics and Agricultural Resources (IHERA), the National Water Institute (INAG) and the companies ARTOP, EDINFOR, ESRI Portugal, ESTEREOFOTO and INTERGRAPH for making the meeting possible by their sponsorship.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to the joint meeting organization and its sponsors for hosting the welcome cocktail for the delegates and their accompanying persons at the Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa on Monday evening.

ISO/TC 211 further expresses its appreciation to the hosts for arranging the excellent dinner and entertainment on Thursday evening.

ISO/TC 211 finally expresses its gratitude to the chairman of CT 134, Dr. João Torres, Instituto Português de Cartografia e Cadastro (IPCC), Dr. João Matos, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Mr. João Pinto, IPCC, Ms. Manuela Lopes, IPCC, Ms. Ana Falcão, IST and Ms. Sónia Martins, IST for their excellent help in arranging the meetings and their support during the meetings.

Acclamation

Resolutions of the 13th plenary meeting of ISO/TC 211
Adelaide, Australia 2001-10-25/26

Resolution 183 In remembrance of Debra LaMarque and François Massé

ISO/TC 211 expresses its gratitude for the years that we knew Debra and François, for the friendship we shared with them, and their contribution to, and hard work for the committee. We are grateful and proud for having known them as professional and enthusiastic colleagues. We ask those that were close to them, and know their family and friends at home, to convey our sincere sympathy and warmth, and assure them of our high regard for Debra and François.

Resolution 184 Approval of liaison request from the United Nations Geographic Information Working Group (UNGIWG)

Unanimous

Resolution 185 Endorsement of project leader of WI 19120/Amd. 1

Unanimous

Resolution 186 Endorsement of project leader of WI 19126

Unanimous

Resolution 187 Registration of ISO CD 19109, Geographic information - Rules for application schema as DIS

Unanimous

Resolution 188 Registration of ISO CD 19119, Geographic information - Services as DIS

Unanimous

Resolution 189 Registration of ISO CD 19117, Geographic information - Portrayal as DIS

Unanimous

Resolution 190 Registration of ISO CD 19106, Geographic information - Profiles as DIS

• Resolve the editorial and minor technical comments received on document N 1134.
• Revise clause 2 and other relevant parts of the document to define two conformance classes; one which stringently establishes a profile as a pure subset, and the other which allows extensions within the context permitted in the base standard being profiled and permitting the profiling of non-ISO/TC 211 standards as part of profiles.

Unanimous

Resolution 191 Harmonization of ISO 19100-series and Geography Markup Language (GML)

To ensure harmonization, ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat in cooperation with the CD 19118 editing committee chair to make the necessary changes to ISO 19118 Encoding and send it and a change report out for a new review together with the revised NWIP for GML.

ISO/TC 211 welcomes the proposal from Open GIS Consortium (OGC) and Germany for Mr. Clemens Portele as project leader for the NWIP.

Unanimous

Resolution 192 Deletion of work item 19102, Geographic information - Overview

The content of the project will be incorporated into the Business plan, as standing document on the committee web site and other means.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to Mr. Chris Gower for his work in the project.

Unanimous

Resolution 193 Disbanding of Working Group 1

ISO/TC 211 wishes to express its appreciation to Mr. Norman C. Andersen for acting as Convenor since the 12th plenary meeting in Lisbon.

Unanimous

Resolution 194 Disbanding of Working Group 2

ISO/TC 211 wishes to express its appreciation to Mr. Antony Cooper for his services as Convenor of WG 2.

Unanimous

Resolution 195 Disbanding of Working Group 3

ISO/TC 211 wishes to express its appreciation to Dr. Robert Walker for his services as Convenor of WG 3.

Unanimous

Resolution 196 Disbanding of Working Group 5

ISO/TC 211 wishes to express its appreciation to Mr. C. Douglas O'Brien for his services as Convenor of WG 5.

Unanimous

Resolution 197 Establishment of new Working Groups

Working Group 6: Imagery
Working Group 7: Information communities
Working Group 8: Location based services
Working Group 9: Information management

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to send out a call for nomination of convenors immediately with a closing date of 2002-01-01.

Unanimous

Resolution 198 Assignment of projects to Working Groups

WI 19128 assigned to Working Group 4

WI 19129 assigned to Working Group 6
WI 19130 assigned to Working Group 6

WI 19120 assigned to Working Group 7
WI 19122 assigned to Working Group 7
WI 19126 assigned to Working Group 7

WI 19132 assigned to Working Group 8
WI 19133 assigned to Working Group 8
WI 19134 assigned to Working Group 8

WI 19127 assigned to Working Group 9
WI 19131 assigned to Working Group 9
WI 19135 assigned to Working Group 9

Unanimous

Resolution 199 Confirmation of new work items

WI 19131 Geographic information - Data product specifications
Dr. João Luis Gustavo de Matos

WI 19132 Geographic information - Location based services possible standards
Mr. Martin Ford

WI 19133 Geographic information - Location based services tracking and navigation
Dr. John R. Herring

WI 19134 Geographic information - Multimodal location based services for routing and navigation
Professor Tschangho Kim

WI 19135 Geographic information - Procedures for registration of geographical information items
Dr. Charles Roswell

Unanimous

Resolution 200 Establishment of Advisory group on outreach

The advisory group shall develop a marketing strategy, marketing information and be responsible for the programmes of future workshops together with the secretariat.

The advisory group is established for a period of two years, and will be evaluated at the plenary at the end of this period.

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to send out a call for nomination of chair and members.

Unanimous

Resolution 201 Disbanding of the Special working group on quality control

Unanimous

Resolution 202 Disbanding of the Advisory group on location based services

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to Mr. John Rowley for his services as convenor of the group.

Unanimous

Resolution 203 The International Federation of Surveyors' proposal on cadastre

ISO/TC 211 encourages FIG to suggest how ISO/TC 211 could assist in this activity.

Unanimous

Resolution 204 Contribution to the International Federation of Surveyors congress in Washington 2002-04

ISO/TC 211 establishes an ad hoc group consisting of the chairman, Mr. Chris Gower, Mr. Larry Hothem, Professor Hans Knoop, Mr. Craig Macauley and Dr. Charles Roswell to coordinate the programme with FIG.

Unanimous

Resolution 205 Terminology maintenance group (TMG)

ISO/TC 211 endorses the nomination of the 19104 Editing committee of Mr. Andrew Jones to convene the TMG during a pilot period until the next plenary.

During the pilot period the TMG will comprise the PT leaders, the EC chairs and the secretariat.

ISO/TC 211 recognizes the importance of having more than one language represented in the TMG, and that terminology expertise is also included amongst the membership.

Unanimous

Resolution 206 Adjustment of target dates of the ISO/TC 211 programme of work

Unanimous

Resolution 207 Requirements concerning subsequent meetings

Facilities for editing committees, project team meetings and a workshop will be provided at the 14th plenary in Bangkok.

Unanimous

Appreciations

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to the South Australian Department for Administrative and Information Services - Spatial Information Industry Program, PSMA Australia Ltd., ANZLIC, The Spatial Information Council, South Australian Department for Environment and Heritage and ESRI Australia for making the meeting possible by their sponsorship.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to Standards Australia and the sponsors for the welcome reception for the delegates and their accompanying persons at the Novotel Adelaide on Hindley Hotel on Monday evening.

ISO/TC 211 further expresses its appreciation to the hosts for arranging the excellent dinner and entertainment on Thursday evening, and for the words of welcome from Mr. Peter Gardner.

ISO/TC 211 finally expresses its gratitude to Mr. Andrew Jones and Mr. Craig Macauley (Department for Environment and Heritage), Mr. Neville Chen (Standards Australia), Mr. Don McNeill, Ms. Emily Gard, Ms. Zena Scott, Ms. Simone Champion, Ms. Sarah Rhodes and Mr. Nick McIntyre (Department for Environment and Heritage) for their excellent help in arranging the meetings and their support during the meetings.

Acclamation

Resolutions of the 14th plenary meeting of ISO/TC 211
Bangkok, Thailand, 2002-05-23/24

Resolution 208 Approval of liaison request from the Permanent Committee on Spatial Data Infrastructure for the Americas (PC IDEA)

ISO/TC 211 appreciates the request for category A liaison status from the Permanent Committee on Spatial Data Infrastructure for the Americas (PC IDEA), and instructs the secretariat to inform the ISO Central Secretariat of its approval

Unanimous

Resolution 209 Approval of liaison request from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)

ISO/TC 211 appreciates the request for category A liaison status from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), and instructs the secretariat to inform the ISO Central Secretariat of its approval.

Unanimous

Resolution 210 Approval of liaison request from the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN)

ISO/TC 211 appreciates the request for category A liaison status from the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN), and instructs the secretariat to inform the ISO Central Secretariat of its approval.

Unanimous

Resolution 211 Registration of ISO CD 19104, Geographic information - Terminology as DIS

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to process the editorial omissions and corrections, and to forward ISO CD 19104 (document N 1237) to the ISO Central Secretariat for issuing as DIS.

Unanimous

Resolution 212 Registration of ISO CD 19116, Geographic information - Positioning services as DIS

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to resolve the editorial comments, and to forward ISO CD 19116 (document N 1232) to the ISO Central Secretariat for issuing as DIS.

Unanimous

Resolution 213 Confirmation of new work item Geographic information - Geography Markup Language (GML)

ISO/TC 211 confirms the approval of the following new work item and endorses the nomination of project leader:

WI 19136 Geographic information - Geography Markup Language (GML)
Mr. Clemens Portele

The project is assigned to Working Group 4.

Unanimous

Resolution 214 Confirmation of new work item Geographic information - Generally used profiles of the spatial schema and of similar important other schemas

ISO/TC 211 confirms the approval of the following new work item and endorses the nomination of project leader:

WI 19137 Geographic information - Generally used profiles of the spatial schema and of similar important other schemas
Mr. Josef Dorfschmid

The project is assigned to Working Group 7.

ISO/TC 211 instructs the project leader to consult with the project team regarding resolution of the comments to the title and scope. ISO/TC 211 further instructs the project leader to forward the proposed changed title and scope to the secretariat by 2002-07-01 for ballot among the members. The project team shall proceed with the work while the ballot is in progress.

Unanimous

Resolution 215 Terminology maintenance group (TMG)

ISO/TC 211 resolves to retain the TMG under the convenorship of Mr. Andrew Jones, to review and update the ISO/TC 211 on-line terminology repository.

ISO/TC 211 instructs each Working Group convenor to nominate two representatives from their working group to the TMG by 2002-06-30 and authorises the TMG convenor to invite additional members as necessary, to ensure:

• more than one language is represented;
• terminology expertise is included;
• national bodies and liaisons are engaged.

Unanimous

Resolution 216 New work item proposal to address harmonization and enhancements

ISO/TC 211 is pleased to accept the United Kingdom's offer to draft a NWIP for a Technical Amendment to address harmonization and enhancements for all the 19100 standards in order that the amended standards can be published in a timely and efficient manner.

Further more ISO/TC 211 requests the United Kingdom to submit by 2002-06-17 to the secretariat the NWIP for ballot.

Unanimous

Resolution 217 Cooperative agreement between ISO/TC 211 and Digital Geographic Information Working Group (DGIWG)

ISO/TC 211 appreciates the draft cooperative agreement from DGIWG. ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to review the proposal in cooperation with the ISO Central Secretariat and forward the final text of the cooperative agreement for approval by the ISO Council.

Unanimous

Resolution 218 Appreciation to ESRI

ISO/TC 211 wishes to express its gratitude to ESRI for the offer to provide the ISO/TC 211 stand at the ESRI User Conference in San Diego in July 2002 and at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg in August 2002.

Unanimous

Resolution 219 Editor of ISO CD 19128

ISO/TC 211 welcomes and accepts the offer from OGC for Dr. Jeff de la Beaujardiere to become editor for ISO CD 19128 Geographic information - Web Map Server Interface.

Unanimous

Resolution 220 Delegation to the meeting of the Joint steering group for spatial standardization and related interoperability in London, 2002-06-21/22

ISO/TC 211 appoints the following delegation to represent ISO/TC 211 at the Joint steering group for spatial standardization and related interoperability in London 2002-06-21/22:

Dr. Abdullah Al-Shahrani, Saudi Arabia
Mr. Martin Ford, United Kingdom
Mr. Doug O'Brien, Canada
Dr. Charles Roswell, United States of America

Unanimous

Resolution 221 Convenor of Working Group 6

ISO/TC 211 welcomes and accepts the nomination from Canada of Mr. C. Douglas O'Brien as convenor of Working Group 6.

Unanimous

Resolution 222 Convenor of Working Group 7

ISO/TC 211 welcomes and accepts the nomination from South Africa of Mr. Antony Cooper as convenor of Working Group 7.

Unanimous

Resolution 223 Convenor of Working Group 8

ISO/TC 211 appreciates the nominations from the United States of America and the United Kingdom for convenor of WG 8.

ISO/TC 211 welcomes Mr. John R. Rowley of the United Kingdom as convenor of Working Group 8.

Unanimous

Resolution 224 Convenor of Working Group 9

ISO/TC 211 welcomes and accepts the nomination from Japan of Dr. Hiroshi Imai as convenor of Working Group 9.

Unanimous

Resolution 225 Convenors of Advisory Group on outreach

ISO/TC 211 welcomes the nominations from the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) of Mr. Henry Tom and from Germany of Professor Dr. Hans Knoop as convenors of the advisory group on outreach.

ISO/TC 211 accepts both nominations and appoints them as co-chairs of the advisory group for a period of two years.

Unanimous

Resolution 226 Proceeding of ISO DIS 19115 Geographic information - Metadata

ISO/TC 211 resolves to delete the informative annex F, clause J.3 and any references to these, in ISO DIS 19115, as requirements for XML DTDs are replaced by requirements for XML schemas in 19118.

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to process the corrections above and other editorial and minor technical improvements in accordance with the ISO Directives, and to forward ISO DIS 19115 to the ISO Central Secretariat for issuing as FDIS.

ISO/TC 211 resolves that an implementation UML model and an XML Schema for metadata in compliance with ISO 19115 and 19118 will be a new work item proposal for a Technical Specification. Based on discussions at the 14th ISO/TC 211 plenary, the new work item proposal will be submitted for ballot by 2002-06-30.

Unanimous

Resolution 227 Development of registers

ISO/TC 211 believes that the current effort to develop appropriate procedural and technical standards for registration should continue. ISO/TC 211 therefore directs:

• PT 19135 to continue work on a procedural standard for registration of items of geographical information along the lines suggested in the PT presentation to the Plenary meeting on 2002-05-23 (refer document N 1288).
• PT 19126 to specify requirements for the registration of feature catalogues.
• PT 19127 to complete the development of a technical standard for the registration of lists of geodetic codes and parameters.
  

The consensus of ISO/TC 211 is that a register for catalogues should be established initially as an internal repository after the appropriate standards have reached the DIS stage.

Unanimous

Resolution 228 Review of ISO 6709:1983 Standard representation of latitude, longitude and altitude for geographical locations

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to immediately send out a call for systematic review of ISO 6709:1983 Standard representation of latitude, longitude and altitude for geographical locations.

Unanimous

Resolution 229 Liaison representatives

ISO/TC 211 accepts the following liaison representations:

• Professor João de Matos, Portugal, to UNGIWG
• Professor Tschangho Kim, Korea, to UNGIWG
• Mr. Vincent Dessard, Belgium, to UNGIWG
• Professor Liping Di, United States of America, to UNGIWG
• Mr. Antony Cooper, South Africa, to ICA
• Mr. John Eller, United States of America, to DGIWG
• Mr. George Percivall, United States of America, to IEEE GRSS
• Mr. Larry Hothem, United States of America, to SCAR

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciations to Mr. Dave Danko for serving as representative to DGIWG for several years.

Unanimous

Resolution 230 Response to OGC proposal for TOCG strategy

ISO/TC 211 recommends that the chair of ISO/TC 211 and the chair of TOCG meet with representatives of OGC, including the chair of OGC TC, to discuss the future cooperation between ISO/TC 211 and OGC. As a consequence, ISO/TC 211 recommends that the TOCG does not meet until this meeting has been held.

Unanimous

Resolution 231 Registration of ISO CD 19118, Geographic information - Encoding as DIS

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to finalize the editing of ISO CD 19118, including making annex A informative, and to forward ISO CD 19118 (document N 1136) to the ISO Central Secretariat for issuing as DIS.

The annex of XML encoding rules will be made normative as a part of the amendment process described in resolution 216.

Unanimous

Resolution 232 Adjustment of target dates of the ISO/TC 211 programme of work

*RS=Review summary

Unanimous

Resolution 233 Requirements concerning subsequent meetings

ISO/TC 211 adopts the following meeting schedule:

15th plenary	2002-11-14/15	Gyeongju, Rep. of Korea
16th plenary	2003-05-22/23	Switzerland
17th plenary	2003-10/11	Germany	(avoid 10-01 - 11-05)
18th plenary	2004-05	Canada
19th plenary	2004-11	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	(avoid 10-10 - 11-15)
20th plenary	2005-05/06	Stockholm, Sweden

Facilities for editing committees, project team meetings and a workshop will be provided at the 15th plenary in Gyeongju.

Unanimous

Appreciations

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to the Thai Industrial Standards Institute for hosting the workshop, working groups, editing and 14th plenary meetings and providing the committee with excellent meeting facilities.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to the Thai Industrial Standards Institute for the excellent dinner and entertainment for the delegates and their accompanying persons at Siam Erawan on Thursday night, and for the words of welcome from Ms. Sasithorn Sunthrarak.

ISO/TC 211 further expresses its appreciation to the hosts for arranging the excellent dinner cruise on Wednesday evening.

ISO/TC 211 finally expresses its gratitude to Dr. Kaew Nualchawee, Ms. Sasithorn Sunthrarak, Ms. Thitima Hoonsuwan, Ms. Apassorn Suksai, Ms. Porntip Sai-ngam, Ms. Nopporn Klum-Em and Ms. Salakjit Chotsiri for their excellent help in arranging the meetings and their support during the meetings.

Acclamation

Resolutions of the 15th plenary meeting of ISO/TC 211
Gyeongju, Rep. of Korea, 2002-11-14/15

Resolution 234 Business Plan

ISO/TC 211 approves the revised Business Plan (N 1297).

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to forward the revised Business Plan to the ISO Central Secretariat for approval.

Unanimous

Resolution 235 Terminology repository future support

ISO/TC 211 considers an on-line terminology repository to be an important component of its information dissemination capability and outreach strategy. ISO/TC 211 expresses its gratitude to ISLinkup for the work it has undertaken in developing and supporting the current prototype database system.

ISO/TC 211 recognizes that the terminology database system requires:

• upgrading to accommodate editing committee changes to ISO 19104 and requirements of the TMG;
• long-term arrangements for hosting and support.

ISO/TC 211 further recognizes that there will be a cost associated with both requirements.

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to send out a call to NBs and liaisons and invite them to submit sponsorship proposals for the system's revision and/or long-term hosting (5 years). The proposals are to be forwarded to the Secretariat by 2003-03-31.

Unanimous

Resolution 236 Harmonized Model Maintenance Group (HMMG)

ISO/TC 211 recognizes the excellent work conducted by the Model Harmonization Team under the successive leadership of Dr. Chris Dabrowski, Dr. John Herring and Mr. Shawn Silkensen.

ISO/TC 211 resolves to disband the Model Harmonization Team and to create a Harmonized Model Maintenance Group under the convenorship of Dr. Herring and editorship of Mr. Silkensen, to ensure that the UML models of ISO/TC 211 projects and standards are harmonized.

ISO/TC 211 instructs Working Group and the Terminology Maintenance Group convenors to nominate a representative from their groups to the HMMG by 2003-02-28 and authorizes the HMMG convenor to invite additional members as necessary.

ISO/TC 211 instructs project leaders and editors to be members of the HMMG until their projects reach FDIS. The project leaders shall notify the HMMG of proposed changes to their UML models, and ensure their projects are harmonized with the remaining ISO/TC 211 projects and standards.

Unanimous

Resolution 237 Cooperation with ISO/TC 204

ISO/TC 211 appreciates the recent cooperation with ISO/TC 204 Transport information and control systems.

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to invite ISO/TC 204 to nominate experts to join appropriate ISO/TC 211 project teams such as the work items 19136 (GML) and WG 8 (LBS) project teams.

Unanimous

Resolution 238 Confirmation of new work item Geographic information - Data quality measures

ISO/TC 211 confirms the approval of the following new work item and endorses the nomination of project leader and editor.

WI 19138 Geographic information - Data quality measures
Project leader: Dr. Gerhard Joos, Editor: Erik Stenborg

The project is assigned to Working Group 9.

Unanimous

Resolution 239 Confirmation of new work item Geographic information - Metadata - Implementation specifications

ISO/TC 211 confirms the approval of the following new work item and endorses the nomination of project leader and editor:

WI 19139 Geographic information - Metadata - Implementation specifications
Project leader: Mr. David Danko, Editor: Mr. John Eller

The project is assigned to Working Group 7.

As the vote failed to be approved as a CD, ISO/TC 211 instructs the project team to address the comments and submit a revised working draft for registration as a CD.

Unanimous

Resolution 240 Technical Amendment to the ISO 191** Geographic information series of standards for harmonization and enhancements

ISO/TC 211 confirms the approval of the following new work item and endorses the nomination of project leader:

WI 19140 Technical Amendment to the ISO 191** Geographic information series of standards for harmonization and enhancements
Dr. Robert Walker

ISO/TC 211 instructs the project team to deliver, according to the ISO Directives, a working draft within 6 months, which identifies the ISO/TC 211 deliverables and projects within the ISO/TC 211 programme of work that need amendments and the character of those amendments, after which the secretariat will send out a call for the various experts to develop the individual amendments.

ISO/TC 211 recognizes that the amendments identified will need to go to individual ballot in accordance with the ISO Directives.

The project will be organized as a project directly under the Technical Committee.

Unanimous

Resolution 241 Liaison representatives

ISO/TC 211 accepts the following liaison representations:

• Mr. Henry Tom to GSDI
• Mr. Olaf Østensen to GSDI
• Mr. Doug O'Brien to IHB
• Mr. Martin Ford to IHB
• Mr. Olaf Østensen to JRC
• Mr. Martin Ford to JRC
• Mr. Henry Tom to PC IDEA
• Mr. Lorant Czaran to UN ECE
  

Unanimous

Resolution 242 CEN/TC 278 Road Transport and Traffic Telematics

In order to facilitate liaison with ISO/TC 204 and external outreach into the transport community, ISO/TC 211 authorizes Mr. Chris Gower to represent the committee at meetings of CEN/TC 278

Unanimous

Resolution 243 Adjustment of target dates of the ISO/TC 211 programme of work

*RS=Review summary

The table is voted on on the conditions that the updates are made by the secretariat before the resolutions are distributed.

Unanimous

Resolution 244 Endorsement of project leader

ISO/TC 211 endorses the nomination by DGIWG of Mr. Raymond Staggemeier as new project leader.

Unanimous

Resolution 245 Geodetic codes and parameters

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to process the editorial changes to ISO/PDTS 19127 (ISO/TC 211 N 1310) as agreed by the editing committee, to send it for review by the Member Bodies and then to forward to the Central Secretariat as a Technical Specification.

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat, following the issue of TS 19127 to the ISO Central Secretariat, to call for a registration authority for the ISO registration system for geodetic codes and parameters.

The registration authority shall maintain the ISO registration system for geodetic codes and parameters as described in TS 19127.

Unanimous

Resolution 246 Requirements concerning subsequent meetings

ISO/TC 211 adopts the following meeting schedule:

16th plenary	2003-05-22/23	Thun, Switzerland
17th plenary	2003-11/12	Germany	(preferably the first week of December)
18th plenary	2004-05	Canada	to be confirmed
19th plenary	2004-11/12	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	to be confirmed (avoid October 15 - November 25)
20th plenary	2005-05/06	Stockholm, Sweden

Facilities for editing committees, project team meetings and a workshop will be provided at the 16th plenary in Thun.

Unanimous

Appreciations

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to the Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS) for hosting the ISO/TC 211 plenary, workshop, working groups and other meetings and providing the committee with superb meeting facilities.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to Mr. Kim Dong-Chul, Administrator, Director General Yoon Kyo-Won, and Director Cho Chun-Haeng, and KATS for the excellent dinner arranged for the delegates at Thursday evening.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to the Korean Standards Association (KSA), Mr. Yoo Young-Sang, vice Chairman and CEO, and Mr. Chung Suk-Jin, Executive Director, for the excellent reception on Monday evening.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its gratitude to Hon. Baek Sang-Seung, Mayor of the city of Gyeongju for their support to the meeting and spectacular entertainment arranged for the delegates at Thursday evening, and Mr. Lee Jin-Koo, President, City Council of Gyeongju, for his welcoming address to the plenary.

ISO/TC 211 further expresses its appreciation to the sponsors: Gyeongju City, Electronic Times and Korea geoSpatial Information & Communication Co. Ltd (KSIC) for their support to the arrangement.

ISO/TC 211 finally expresses its gratitude to Professor Tschangho Kim and the staff from KATS, Mr. Park Sang-Sam, Mr. Bae Jin-Seok and Ms. Shin Moonkyung, the staff from KSA, Mr. Whang Man-han, Mr. Jung Sungkeun, Mr. Yun Seongkwon, Mr. Choi Donggeun and Ms. Oh Sesoon for their excellent help in arranging the meetings and their support during the meetings, and Mr. Seoung Heung Chan, e-RENCOM Co., Ltd. for the excellent Internet services.

Acclamation

Resolutions of the 16th plenary meeting of ISO/TC 211
Thun, Switzerland, 2003-05-22/23

Resolution 247 Approval of liaison request from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

ISO/TC 211 appreciates the request for category A liaison status from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO/UN), and instructs the secretariat to inform the ISO Central Secretariat of its approval.

Unanimous

Resolution 248 Disbandment of the advisory group on web server interface for geographic information

ISO/TC 211 resolves to disband the advisory group on web server interface for geographic information and to pass the ongoing work to WG 4. ISO/TC 211 appreciates the contribution of the convenor, Mr. Michel Mellinger and the report to the plenary in Adelaide (document N 1183).

Unanimous

Resolution 249 Title and scope of ISO 19126

ISO/TC 211 accepts the recommendation given by the project team of project 19126 and the comments given by the US national body in N 1433.

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to issue a ballot among the members to accept the changes proposed at the same time as the CD ballot:

Title: Geographic information - Profiles for feature data dictionary registers and feature catalogue registers

Scope: This International Standard specifies profiles of ISO 19110 Geographic information - Methodology for feature cataloguing, as the basis for the establishment of feature data dictionary registers and feature catalogue registers. These registers are in accordance with ISO 19135 Geographic information - Procedures for registration of items of geographic information.

Unanimous

Resolution 250 Collaboration regarding outreach with class A liaisons

ISO/TC 211 resolves to hold a seminar for the purpose of more closely engaging its class A Liaison organizations in outreach activities, including issues recorded in ISO/TR 19122. To this end, ISO/TC 211 instructs the Advisory Group on Outreach to arrange such a seminar in conjunction with the Berlin Plenary and requests its representatives to Class A Liaison organizations to actively support this event.

Unanimous

Resolution 251 Confirmation of new work item Geographic information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for imagery and gridded data

ISO/TC 211 confirms the approval of the following new work item and endorses the nomination of project leader and editor:

WI 19115-2 Geographic information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for imagery and gridded data
Project leader: Mr. John Eller, Editor: Mr. David Danko

Based on comments received and discussions among the project teams, ISO/TC 211 accepts the minor changes in the title and scope of the project.

The new scope reads: This International Standard extends ISO 19115:2003 Geographic Information - Metadata by defining the schema and additional metadata required for imagery and gridded data.

The project is assigned to Working Group 6.

Unanimous

Resolution 252 ISO/TC 211 / Open GIS Consortium, Inc. co-ordination group

ISO/TC 211 resolves to reorganize the co-ordination group between Open GIS Consortium, Inc. and ISO/TC 211.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to Mr. John Rowley and the TOCG for their work in the TOCG period.

The new co-ordination group will replace the TOCG, and will be co-chaired by nominees from both organizations.

An interim meeting will be arranged in connection with the OGC meeting in 2003-06-09/11 (Dulles, VA, USA). The purpose of this meeting is to draft the terms of reference for the new co-ordination group. Mr. George Percivall will act as the ISO/TC 211 co-chair at this meeting.

Project leaders and working group convenors are invited to participate on behalf of ISO/TC 211 at this meeting.

Unanimous

Resolution 253 Joint work on GML

ISO/TC 211 encourages the work of project 19136 and the OGC GML RWG to be done in a joint group. Procedures will be clarified in the new terms of reference (see Resolution 252).

ISO/TC 211 agrees to a joint meeting between the project team 19136 members and the OGC GML RWG in connection with the GML Development Days in Vancouver, Canada, in 2003-07-24/25.

Unanimous

Resolution 254 WG 8 convenor

ISO/TC 211 accepts the nomination of Mr. Martin Ford from the United Kingdom as acting convenor for WG 8 until Mr. John Rowley is able to resume his role.

Unanimous

Resolution 255 Revision of ISO 6709:1983 Standard representation of latitude, longitude and altitude for geographic point locations

ISO/TC 211 accepts the offer from the USA to lead the revision of ISO 6709:1983 and the proposed project leader, Mr. Kevin Kirby.

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to register the new work item at the ISO Central Secretariat, and send out a call for additional experts to work on the revision.

The project is assigned to WG 9.

Unanimous

Resolution 256 Co-operative agreement between ISO/TC 211 Geographic Information/Geomatics and the International Hydrographic Organisation (IHO)

ISO/TC 211 appreciates the draft cooperative agreement from IHO. ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to review the proposal in cooperation with the ISO Central Secretariat and forward the final text of the cooperative agreement for approval by the ISO Council.

Unanimous

Resolution 257 Adjustment of target dates of the ISO/TC 211 programme of work

Bold = Delivered documents
Italic = uncertain

*RS=Review summary

Unanimous

Resolution 258 Endorsement of project leader

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to Joseph Dorfschmid for leading project 19137. As Mr. Dorfschmid has to withdraw from the position, ISO/TC 211 endorses the nomination by the national body of Switzerland of Mr. Sascha Brawer as the new project leader.

Unanimous

Resolution 259 Appointment of liaison representatives

ISO/TC 211 accepts the following liaison representations:

Dr. Liping Di to CEOS
Dr. Liping Di to ISPRS
Mr. Martin Ford to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32
Mr. Aleksandar Pavlovic to ICAO

Unanimous

Resolution 260 Requirements concerning subsequent meetings

ISO/TC 211 adopts the following meeting schedule:

17th plenary	2003-10-30/31	Berlin, Germany
18th plenary	2004-05-27/28	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
19th plenary	2005-10/11	JRC in Italy (to be confirmed) (avoid 15 October - 17 November )
20th plenary	2005-05/06	Stockholm, Sweden
21st plenary	2005-10/11	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
22nd plenary	2006-05	USA

Facilities for editing committees, project team meetings and a workshop will be provided prior to the 17th plenary in Berlin.

Unanimous

Appreciations

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to the Swiss Association for Standardization (SNV) for hosting the ISO/TC 211 meetings in Thun and for the excellent meeting facilities provided. ISO/TC 211 further expresses its appreciation to the organization committee, Mr. Hans Rudolf Gnägi, Mr. André Bernath, Mr. Peter Dütschler, Mr. Christian Feller and Mr. Andreas Achtnich for their work in preparations for and support during the meetings.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to the Municipality of Thun and Ms. Ursula Haller, municipal counsellor and national deputy, for the reception on Tuesday evening and kind greeting to the delegates. ISO/TC 211 also expresses its thanks for the guided tours that were provided for the delegates, where they could appreciate the beauty and history of Thun.

ISO/TC 211 further expresses its appreciation to Mr. René Sonnay, vice president of Swiss Organization for Geo-Information (SOGI) for his greeting to the delegates.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to Professor Dr. Alessandro Carosio for his welcome address to the plenary.

ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to the sponsors, the Swiss Organization for Geo-Information (SOGI), the Federal office of Topography (Swisstopo), the Federal coordination group for geo-information (KOEIS), the Federal institute of technology (ETHZ), ESRI Switzerland and C-plan for their contributions to the success of the meetings in Thun.

Finally, ISO/TC 211 expresses its appreciation to the organization committee and the sponsors for the arrangement of the excellent tour to Niesen, dinner and entertainment on Thursday evening, and to Mr. Alfred Brandenberger, SNV, Mr. Thomas Hardmeier, head of the GIS-Centre canton Bern and Dr. Erich Gubler, head of the federal office of topography for their warm addresses and presentation to the delegates at the dinner.

Acclamation

Resolutions of the 17th plenary meeting of ISO/TC 211
Berlin, Germany, 2003-10-30/31

Resolution 261 Confirmation of new work item Geographic information - Reference model - Imagery

ISO/TC 211 confirms the approval of the following new work item and endorses the nomination of project leader:

WI 19101-2 Geographic information - Reference model - Part 2: Imagery
Project leader: Mr. George Percivall

The project is assigned to Working Group 6.

Unanimous

Resolution 262 Registration of ISO CD 19123, Geographic information - Schema for coverage geometry and functions as DIS

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat, in consultation with the editor, to consider the comment from the NB of Japan (document N 1523) and to forward ISO CD 19123 (document N 1475) to the ISO Central Secretariat for issuing as DIS.

Unanimous

Resolution 263 Registration of ISO CD 19128, Geographic information - Web Map Server interface as DIS

Noting that ISO/TC 211 should not promulgate a convention which conflicts with long established codified practice and has implications for safety in aviation and marine areas, ISO/TC 211 agrees to send CD 19128 (document N 1477) to ISO for publication as DIS after

• the comments accepted by the editor in document N 1524 are applied to the document;
• a note is included in the draft regarding the criticality of axis order portrayal to human users;
• a note on applicability of WGS 84 is added;
• references to regional coordinate reference systems, for example NAD27, are made optional and a note on their applicability is added; and
• the other issues raised in N 1524 including reference to coordinate reference systems are referred to the 191xx harmonisation processes (19140).

Abstaining: Switzerland
Approved

Resolution 264 Registration of ISO CD 19133, Geographic information - Location based services tracking and navigation as DIS

ISO/TC 211 instructs the secretariat to forward ISO CD 19133 (document N 1487) to the ISO Central Secretariat for issuing as DIS.

Unanimous

Resolution 265 Harmonization work

ISO/TC 211 instructs project team 19140, HMMG and TMG to meet in joint sessions to ensure the alignment of and integration of their respective harmonization activities.

Unanimous

Resolution 266 Terms of reference Joint Advisory Group (JAG) between Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) and ISO/TC 211

ISO/TC 211 approves the Terms of Reference for the Joint Advisory Group between ISO/TC 211 and OGC in document N 1531.

ISO/TC 211 appoints Mr. George Percivall as the ISO/TC 211 co-chair of the JAG.

Unanimous

Resolution 267 Activities on ISO/TR 19122 Geographic information - Qualifications and certification of personnel

ISO/TC 211 appoints the co-chair of the Advisory Group on Outreach, Professor Hans Knoop, to serve as the point of contact for enquiries by external parties regarding ISO/TR 19122. Professor Knoop will report on these activities to ISO/TC 211 and recommend further actions. In this work he will cooperate closely with ISO/TC 211 liaisons.

Unanimous

Resolution 268 External links to the ISO/TC 211 web site

ISO/TC 211 requests representatives to and from Class A Liaisons to promote the ISO/TC 211 work by establishing hyperlinks from the Class A Liaison web sites to the ISO/TC 211 web site. ISO/TC 211 will continuously maintain its web site hyperlinks to the Class A Liaison web sites, and asks to be informed of any changes.

Unanimous

Resolution 269 Adjustment of target dates of the ISO/TC 211 programme of work

Bold = Delivered documents
Italic = uncertain