RE: Very draft mission statement for the GIS SC

All -

 

The GIS SC met today and discussed the role and mission of the SC in the 
context of the larger mission of the EM TC. We captured a number of good ideas 
and my action was to put them into some semblance of short paragraph. So, here 
is my first cut at the GIS SC mission. I do like the first sentence 
(structure).

 

Anyway:

 

The mission of the Geospatial Information System (GIS) sub-committee is 
to provide a forum in which requirements for and potential solutions to 
geospatial standards issues as related to the broader work of the EM TC can be 
presented and discussed. This work will include 
surveys of existing standards, collection of requirements, 
discussions, and recommendations to the broader EM TC for geospatial 
components/elements for standards being developed by the EM TC. The goal of 
this work to improve the value of emergency management systems, including 
effective integration of geospatial message content anywhere into the EM value 
chain.

 

So have at it!

 

Regards

 

Carl Reed, PhD
CTO and Executive Director Specification 
Program
OGC

 

The OGC: Helping the World to Communicate Geographically

 

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