RE: Notes from Sept 17, 2003 Teleconference

In attendance: Eliot C, Bill S., Art B., Carl R., 
Gary H (observing)

 

Only meeting topic was discussion of the draft 
requirements document for EM Symbology.

 

1. General agreement that it would be highly useful 
to have more EM Symbology user organizations provide input to the requirements 
document. One thought is to determine if Scott McAffee (FEMA) would be 
interested.

 

2. Some discussion SVG. Agreement that is good to 
include. This lead to a discussion of scale independence and scale dependence. 
General feeling is that use of symbols needs to be as independent as possible 
from content. How a symbol is rendered in terms of scale is application 
dependent.

 

3. Discussion of Language. Agreement that an 
English vocabulary of symbol names would be normative and that there could be 
then be language profiles for other languages. This is to properly 
support a FIND operation against a symbol registry.

 

4. Some discussion on Audio requirement. 
Agreement to change the requirement so to The text equivalent for a symbol 
should be able to be easily expressed as an audio stream.

 

Action: Carl to incorporate these 
suggestions and finish a the use case 
section.

 

Carl Reed

GIS SC Chair

OGC Executive Director