FYI: Short description of the OGC initiative for emergency management symbology (EMS)

Emergency 
            Mapping Symbology, Phase 1 (EMS 1)   
        

  

    
      
    

  

    
      
        
        

          
            
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            The Emergency Mapping Symbology Interoperability Program Initiative 
            will be a testbed initiative focusing on maturing the Style 
            Management Service (SMS) and the Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) with 
            application to Emergency Mapping Symbology. The project will test by 
            enabling the use of multiple symbol sets with one set of feature 
            data. The symbology used will likely come from the following: 

            

              
Emergency Response Map Symbology (ERMS) – a map symbology set 
              being defined by the FGDC’s Homeland Security Work Group. See: http://www.fgdc.gov/publications/homeland.html 
              

              
Geospatial Symbols (GeoSym) for Digital Displays. The map 
              symbology set defined by DOD to portray Vector Product Format 
              (VPF)data. Reference TBD. 

SMS is a service that 
            was first described and demonstrated in the Open Web Services Phase 
            1.2 (OWS-1.2) test bed initiative. While SMS can be thought of as a 
            type of service, it is in actuality a logical composition of 
            design-patterns, service interfaces and encodings. As such, SMS 
            defines architecture for enabling scalable and interoperable 
            management of symbols and styles in support of cartographic 
            portrayal 
processes.