Reflections on the 2022 Joint OGC & ISO Code Sprint – The Metadata Code Sprint
Over the past two decades, standards such as ISO 19115:2003 and the OGC Catalog Services for the Web (CSW) have been integrated into several Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) initiatives at national and international levels. These standards leveraged the Extensible Markup Language (XML) which, at the time, was the primary encoding for data exchange in IT. […]
Major revision of the Geospatial Information Management Standards Guide endorsed by United Nations member nation
This article is contributed by Mark Reichardt – At the Eleventh Session of the United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) Committee of Experts, member nations endorsed a key revision of the UN-GGIM Guide to the Role of Standards in Geospatial Information Management. Happening in late August 2021, the goal of the Guide is to “provide […]