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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: ; WORD-WRAP: break-word; COLOR: ">Dear OSGeo community
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: ; WORD-WRAP: break-word">A new OGC Standards Working
Group is being formed: Coordinate Reference System Well Known Text (CRS WKT).
Please note that this is a joint project between ISO TC 211 and the OGC.
Therefore, TC 211 Members will also be participating in the work of this
SWG.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: ; WORD-WRAP: break-word">From the charter:</DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa">The
purpose of this Standards Working Group is to progress the Well Known Text (WKT)
representation of Coordinate Reference System (CRS) definitions to the state of
an adopted OGC standard and an <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN>identical
ISO International Standard. This will be achieved by processing comments
received during the public comment period and ensuring that the standard is
consistent with the OGC and ISO TC211 business plans. The work will be conducted
jointly with ISO TC211. <SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa">This
SWG will deliver a modular standard for the self-contained and compact
description of Coordinate Reference Systems and Coordinate Operations through
simple Well Known Text strings. The implementation standard delivered will be
consistent with OGC Abstract Specification Topic 2 (document 08-015r2), which is
also ISO 19111:2007.</SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: ; WORD-WRAP: break-word; COLOR: ">The charter was
presented and discussed at the Seoul meetings. The charter has been available on
pending documents for review and comments since December 3. The latest draft of
the candidate standard was posted December 23. A more complete description of
the work can be viewed at:</DIV>
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title=http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/crswktswg
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">If
you are interesting in participating in this activity and are not an OGC member,
please let me know.</DIV>
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and regards</DIV>
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<DIV
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Carl
Reed, PhD<BR>CTO and Executive Director Standards Program<BR>Open Geospatial
Consortium<BR>www.opengeospatial.org<BR><BR>The OGC: Making Location
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