ISO/TC 211
From the Documentation of:
International Organization for Standardization
Technical Committee –Geographic Information/Geomatics
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies from some 130 countries. A non-governmental organization established in 1947, its mission is to promote the development of standardization and related activities in the world with a view to facilitating the international exchange of goods and services, and to developing cooperation in the spheres of intellectual, scientific, technological and economic activity.
TC 211 addresses standardization in the field of digital geographic information. Its 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. TC 211 Draft International Standard 19110 defines a methodology for creating geographic object, attribute and relationship catalogues. Many applications of geographic information include a predefined catalog of object definitions, attribute definitions, and relationship definitions used within the application. These catalogues are derivatives of the application schemata. Including these catalogs, when moving geographic information from one application to another is common. Providing a consistent methodology for defining these catalogs will enhance the ability to map one catalog to another. Such a mapping may be required to use the information.
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