RE: [emergency] Kent State Symbology Study

[Allen Wyke <emtc@nc.rr.com>]

Have they published anything over that 18 months? A working draft or
anything we can look at and see how things are going?

On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 10:26, Ham, Gary A wrote: 
> My source on the FGDC Homeland Security Subcommittee tell me that the FGDC
> efforts BEGAN WITH THE KENT STATE STUDY as its initial guidance with the
> idea of producing the elusive "quick win."  But they ended up having to
> review the Kent State stuff in combination with DOD military symbology and
> several other competing inputs.  So, the "quick win" has been 18 months in
> the making.  But they are fully aware of the Kent State work and have
> incorporated it in what they are doing.  
> 
> R/S  Gary Ham
> 
> 
> P.S. My email registered with OASIS still does not work in send mode (my
> fault, not theirs) so I will rely on Allen to pass to the full committee as
> needed.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --Original Message--
> From: Allen Wyke [mailto:emtc@nc.rr.com] 
> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 9:36 PM
> To: David Hall
> Cc: Emergency Management TC; emergency-gis@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [emergency] Kent State Symbology Study
> 
> 
> This is actually an excellent report. I have cross posted it with the GIS
> SC.
> 
> Eliot/Bill: I recommend we attempt to contact Dr. Dymon
> (udymon@kent.edu) and see if he can speak at one of your con calls. In
> conjunction, we should try and ascertain the status of the work at FEMA, if
> they received this paper, and get their thoughts/direction. The goal would
> be to specify where we (the EM TC) plans to draw its symbology from, even if
> it is in a working draft state.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Allen
> 
> On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 13:36, David Hall wrote:
> > The following is a link to the Emergency symbology study performed by 
> > Kent State for FEMA that was mentioned in today's XML committee call.
> >  
> > http://dept.kent.edu/geography/Dymon/symbology.htm
> >  
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R. Allen Wyke
Chair, Emergency Management TC
emtc@nc.rr.com
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/emergency