[emergency] RE: Very draft mission statement for the GIS SC

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Title: [emergency] RE: Very draft mission statement for the GIS S

Thanks Carl,

Will put the thinking cap on.

Ciao,

Rex

At 2:53 PM -0600 7/5/05, Carl Reed OGC wrote:

> 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
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