ISO/TC 211 is a

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technical committee formed within

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, tasked with covering the areas of digital

geographic information Geographic data and information is defined in the ISO/TC 211 series of standards as data and information having an implicit or explicit association with a location relative to Earth (a geographic location or geographic position). It is also cal ...

(such as used by geographic information systems) and

geomatics Geomatics is defined in the ISO/TC 211 series of standards as the "discipline concerned with the collection, distribution, storage, analysis, processing, presentation of geographic data or geographic information". Under another definition, it ...

. It is responsible for preparation of a series of International Standards and Technical Specifications numbered in the number range starting at ISO-19101. The Chair of the committee was 1994-2016: Olaf Østensen; during 2017-2018: Christina Wasström; and from 2019 Agneta Gren Engberg.

Scope

ISO/TC 211 is concerned with the 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. Project specification areas within the ISO/TC 211 technical committee include: *

Simple Features Simple Features (officially Simple Feature Access) is a set of standards that specify a common storage and access model of geographic feature made of mostly two-dimensional geometries (point, line, polygon, multi-point, multi-line, etc.) used by g ...

access * Reference models * Spatial and temporal schemas *

Location-based services A location-based service (LBS) is a general term denoting software services which use geographic data and information to provide services or information to users. LBS can be used in a variety of contexts, such as health, indoor object search, ent ...

* Metadata * Web feature and map services * Classification systems The ISO/TC 211 work is closely related to the efforts of the

Open Geospatial Consortium The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), an international voluntary consensus standards organization for geospatial content and location-based services, sensor web and Internet of Things, GIS data processing and data sharing. It originated in 199 ...

. ISO/TC 211 have numerous liaisons with other organizations that often results in identical or nearly identical standards often being adopted by both organizations.

Working Groups

The work within ISO/TC211 is done in working groups, each with a specific focus. The currently active working groups are: * Working Group 1 - Framework and reference model * Working Group 4 - Geospatial services * Working Group 6 - Imagery * Working Group 7 - Information communities * Working Group 9 - Information management * Working Group10 - Ubiquitous public access There are also a number of disbanded Working Groups: * Working Group 2 - Geospatial data models and operators * Working Group 3 - Geospatial data administration * Working Group 5 - Profiles and functional standards * Working Group 8 - Location based services Revision of standards that were previously part of these working groups are now done directly under the TC since the disbandment of the groups.

Published standards

The list of standards by the ISO/TC 211 committee: ISO 6709:2008 ''Standard representation of geographic point location by coordinates'' ISO 19101:2002 ''Geographic information -- Reference model'' ISO/DIS 19101-1 ''Geographic information -- Reference model - Part 1: Fundamentals'' ISO/TS 19101-2:2008 ''Geographic information -- Reference model -- Part 2: Imagery'' ISO/TS 19103:2005 ''Geographic information -- Conceptual schema language'' ISO/TS 19104:2016 ''Geographic information -- Terminology'' ISO 19105:2000 ''Geographic information -- Conformance and testing'' ISO 19106:2004 ''Geographic information -- Profiles'' ISO 19107:2003 ''Geographic information -- Spatial schema'' ISO 19108:2002 ''Geographic information -- Temporal schema'' ISO/CD 19109 ''Geographic information -- Rules for application schema'' ISO 19109:2005 ''Geographic information -- Rules for application schema'' ISO 19110:2005 ''Geographic information -- Methodology for feature cataloguing'' ISO 19111:2007 ''Geographic information -- Spatial referencing by coordinates'' ISO 19111-2:2009 ''Geographic information -- Spatial referencing by coordinates -- Part 2: Extension for parametric values '' ISO 19112:2003 ''Geographic information -- Spatial referencing by geographic identifiers'' ISO 19113:2002 ''Geographic information -- Quality principles'' ISO 19114:2003 ''Geographic information -- Quality evaluation procedures'' ISO 19115:2003 ''Geographic information -- Metadata'' ISO/DIS 19115-1 ''Geographic information -- Metadata -- Part 1: Fundamentals'' ISO 19115-2:2009 ''Geographic information -- Metadata -- Part 2: Extensions for imagery and gridded data'' ISO 19116:2004 ''Geographic information -- Positioning services'' ISO 19117:2005 ''Geographic information -- Portrayal'' ISO 19118:2011 ''Geographic information -- Encoding'' ISO 19119:2011 ''Geographic information -- Services'' ISO/TR 19120:2001 ''Geographic information -- Functional standards'' ISO/TR 19121:2000 ''Geographic information -- Imagery and gridded data'' ISO/TR 19122:2004 ''Geographic information/Geomatics -- Qualification and certification of personnel'' ISO 19123:2005 ''Geographic information -- Schema for coverage geometry and functions'' ISO 19125-1:2004 ''Geographic information -- Simple feature access -- Part 1: Common architecture'' ISO 19125-2:2004 ''Geographic information -- Simple feature access -- Part 2: SQL option'' ISO 19126:2009 ''Geographic information -- Feature concept dictionaries and registers'' ISO/TS 19127:2005 ''Geographic information -- Geodetic codes and parameters'' ISO 19128:2005 ''Geographic information -- Web map server interface'' ISO/TS 19129:2009 ''Geographic information -- Imagery, gridded and coverage data framework'' ISO/TS 19130:2010 ''Geographic information - Imagery sensor models for

geopositioning Geopositioning, also known as geotracking, geolocalization, geolocating, geolocation, or geoposition fixing, is the process of determining or estimating the geographic position of an object. Geopositioning yields a set of geographic coordinates ...

'' ISO/DTS 19130-2 ''Geographic information -- Imagery sensor models for

-- Part 2: SAR, InSAR, Lidar and Sonar'' ISO 19131:2007 ''Geographic information -- Data product specifications'' ISO 19132:2007 ''Geographic information -- Location-based services -- Reference model'' ISO 19133:2005 ''Geographic information -- Location-based services -- Tracking and navigation'' ISO 19134:2007 ''Geographic information -- Location-based services -- Multimodal routing and navigation'' ISO 19135:2005 ''Geographic information -- Procedures for item registration'' ISO/TS 19135-2:2012 ''Geographic information - Procedures for item registration -- Part 2: XML schema implementation'' ISO 19136:2007 ''Geographic information -- Geography Markup Language (GML)'' ISO 19137:2007 ''Geographic information -- Core profile of the spatial schema'' ISO/TS 19138:2006 ''Geographic information -- Data quality measures'' ISO/TS 19139:2007 ''Geographic information -- Metadata -- XML schema implementation'' ISO/DTS 19139-2 ''Geographic Information -- Metadata -- XML Schema Implementation -- Part 2: Extensions for imagery and gridded data'' ISO 19141:2008 ''Geographic information -- Schema for moving features'' ISO 19142:2010 ''Geographic information -- Web Feature Service'' ISO 19143:2010 ''Geographic information -- Filter encoding'' ISO 19144-1:2009 ''Geographic information -- Classification systems -- Part 1: Classification system structure'' ISO 19144-2:2012 ''Geographic information - Classification systems -- Part 2: Land Cover Meta Language (LCML)'' ISO/DIS 19145 ''Geographic information -- Registry of representations of geographic point location'' ISO 19146:2010 ''Geographic information -- Cross-domain vocabularies'' ISO/CD 19147 ''Geographic information -- Location based services -- Transfer Nodes'' ISO 19148:2012 ''Geographic information -- Linear referencing'' ISO 19149:2011 ''Geographic information -- Rights expression language for geographic information -- GeoREL '' ISO/PRF TS 19150-1 ''Geographic information --

Ontology In metaphysics, ontology is the philosophical study of being, as well as related concepts such as existence, becoming, and reality. Ontology addresses questions like how entities are grouped into categories and which of these entities exi ...

-- Part 1: Framework'' ISO/CD 19150-2 ''Geographic information --

-- Part 2: Rules for developing ontologies in the Web Ontology Language (OWL)'' ISO/FDIS 19152 ''Geographic information -- Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) '' ISO/DIS 19153 ''Geospatial Digital Rights Management Reference Model (GeoDRM RM)'' ISO/WD 19154 ''Geographic information -- Ubiquitous public access -- Reference model'' ISO 19155:2012 ''Geographic information -- Place Identifier (PI) architecture'' ISO 19156:2011 ''Geographic information -- Observations and measurements'' ISO/DIS 19157 Geographic information --

Data quality Data quality refers to the state of qualitative or quantitative pieces of information. There are many definitions of data quality, but data is generally considered high quality if it is "fit for tsintended uses in operations, decision making a ...

'' ISO/TS 19158:2012 ''Geographic information—Quality assurance of data supply' ISO/DTS 19159-1 ''Geographic information -- Calibration and validation of remote sensing imagery sensors and data -- Part 1: Optical sensors'' ISO/WD 19160-1 '' Addressing -- Part 1: Conceptual model''

References

External links

Resource site for ISO/TC 211

ISO/TC 211 committee website

TC211 wiki

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