Standards and Metadata, Part IX
This is a follow-on to my series posted on my blog and my original website. Part VIII focused on metadata for the geo-spatial. Let me return here to the standards, which have not stood still to say the least.
At the onset of French mapping, Cassini perfected longitudinal calculations, and King Louis XIV ordered the Paris Meridan be used as basis to map his newly consolidated territories. Then “in 1884 at the International Meridian Conference in Washington DC, the Greenwich meridian was adopted as the prime meridian of the world” (Wikipedia). That was over 200 years later… over a very busy period of industrialisation and colonisation! Can you imagine two prime meridians today?
My GIS Practice Recommen-dations presentation for the oil industry ends with a list of relevant standards bodies, each of which worked out best practices in respective fields. Of these the Open Geospatial Consortium is rather busy with 12 active initiatives out of almost 80 in the past 20 years, ranging from web and mapping via smart cities and remote sensing to IoT. The latest is a Testbed 13 for sensor inter-operabilty and a working group Spatial Data on the Web.
The latter is of particular interest to me: If you follow my blog I cover many web mapping topics. And with LINQ Ltd. we suggest that the “new normal” is improved workflows blending business and the technical. I presented late last year a dashboard based on New Zealand Spatial Data Infrastructure, which promotes interoperability via ANZLIC.
Please watch this space for more topics on this important area of cooperation.
