1. Geospatial Standards Activities Presented by Julie Binder Maitra To FGDC Standards Working Group December 11, 2008

2. Topics • Announcements • Meeting votes • Final draft Wetlands Mapping Standard • Recommendation to FGDC Coordination Group on country codes • CY 2009 SWG Work Plan

3. Announcements • FGDC endorsement of Framework Data Standard, FGDC-STD-014-2008, in May • Public review of Federal Trails Data Standard closed Friday, August 8, 2008. • An editing committee meeting is planned for January 2009 • Proposal submissions for CAP 2009 are due January 6, 2009

4. Meeting votes • Final draft Wetlands Mapping Standard • Vote on recommendation for FGDC Coordination Group approval for FGDC endorsement • Country Codes • Vote on recommendation

5. CY 2009 SWG Work Plan • Advance FGDC standards projects • Integrate voluntary consensus standards into FGDC standards program of work • Database for relationships among standards • Revise FGDC Standards Directive #9, Maintenance – refer to http://fgdcstandards.pbwiki.com/Directive9?l=S

6. CY 2009 SWG Work Plan • Advance FGDC standards projects • Street Address Data Standard to final draft • Shoreline Data Content Standard to final draft • Wetlands Mapping Standard to FGDC endorsement • Cultural Resources Geospatial Data Content Standard to working draft • Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard to committee draft

7. Voluntary Consensus Standards Highlights from discussion of November 7, 2007 SWG meeting • Need to promote standards • Negotiate agreement between FGDC and INCITS • Purchase standards for non-commercial use • Make UML models and implementations (e.g., GML/XML) publicly available • Data registries • Develop implementation guides • Get FGDC endorsement first for future standards • ISO standards • Make Feds comply • Not meaningful for FGDC endorsement • List on FGDC websites

8. CY 2009 FGDC Standards Work Plan Database and interface for relationships among standards • Provide information about document pricing, rights, and normative references in one place. • Elements • Dublin Core elements • Cost • Comment

9. CY 2009 FGDC Standards Work Plan • ANSI has begun to document normative references at its eStandards store, webstore.ansi.org • ISO/TC 211 Programme Management Group (PMG) is planning to create a map showing the relationship between standards for its work in harmonization of standards (211 N 2596) • Comments or suggestions for these pages can be sent to the PMG chair.

10. Thank you! (Ms.) Julie Binder Maitra Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Chair, FGDC Standards Working Group International Representative, INCITS Technical Committee L1, Geographic Information Systems Email: jmaitra@usgs.gov Phone: (703) 648 4627 GMT -5 h Web: FGDC Standards: www.fgdc.gov/standards/ INCITS: www.incits.org; www.incits-l1.org "We live in two worlds: the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination." - Leigh Hunt