[MetaCRS] [OSGeo-Standards] Formation of new Coordinate Reference System Well Known Text Standards Working Group (SWG)

[Frank Warmerdam]

Carl / Folks,

For reference, I have signed up as an observer and hope to contribute
on behalf of GDAL/OGR's WKT processor.  I plan to attend the Redlands
TC.

+cc metacrs

Best regards,
Frank


On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Carl Reed <creed at opengeospatial.org> wrote:
> Dear OSGeo community -
>
> 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.
>
> From the charter:
>
> 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 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. 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.
>
> 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:
>
> http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/crswktswg
>
> If you are interesting in participating in this activity and are not an OGC
> member, please let me know.
>
> Thanks and regards
>
> Carl Reed, PhD
> CTO and Executive Director Standards Program
> Open Geospatial Consortium
> www.opengeospatial.org
>
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