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1st ed. |
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1 online resource (xii, 373 pages) : illustrations |
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| Summary |
This book represents five and a half years of work by the ICA Commission on Standards for the Transfer of Spatial Data during the 1991- 95 ICA cycle. The effort began with the Commission working to develop a set of scientific characteristics by which every kind of spatial data transfer standard could be understood and assessed. This implies that every facet of the transfer process must be understood so that the scientific characteristics could be most efficiently specified. The members of the Commission spent hours looking at their own standard and many others, to ascertain how to specify most effectively the characteristic or subcharacteristic in question. The result is a set of internationally agreed scientific characteristics with 13 broad primary level classes of characteristics, 85 secondary characteristics, and about 220 tertiary characteristics that recognizes almost every possible capability that a spatial data transfer standard might have. It is recognized that no one standard possesses all of these characteristics, but contains a subset of these characteristics. However, these characteristics have been specified in such a way to facilitate understanding of individual standards, and use by interested parties of making comparisons for their own purposes. Although individual applications of a standard may be for different purposes, this set of characteristics provides a uniform measure by which the various standards may be assessed. The book presents an Introduction and four general chapters that describe the spatial data transfer standards activities happening in Europe, North America, Asia/Pacific, and the ISO community. This provides the context so the reader can more easily understand the scientific and technical framework from which a particular standard has come. The third section is a complete listing of all of the three levels of characteristics and their meaning by the inclusion of a set of definitions for terms used in the book. The fourth section, and by far the largest, contains 22 chapters that assess each of the major national and international spatial data transfer standards in the world in terms of all three levels of characteristics. Each assessment has been done by a Commission member who has been an active participant in the development of the standard being assessed in the native language of that standard. A cross-table chart is also provided. |
| Contents |
Chapter headings: Part 1. An introduction to world database transfer standards (H. Moellering). Part 2. Regional Summaries of Standards Development Activities in the World. Part 3. Technical Characteristics for Assessing Standards for the Transfer of Spatial Data. Part 4. Full International Descriptions of the Transfer Standards. Part 5. Crosstable of National and International Spatial Data Transfer Standards. |
| Note |
"December 1996." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Print version record. |
| Subject |
Geographic information systems -- Standards.
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Systèmes d'information géographique -- Normes.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems.
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Geographic information systems -- Standards
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Cartografia.
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| Added Author |
Moellering, Harold.
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Hogan, Richard (Richard L.)
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ICA Commission on Standards for the Transfer of Spatial Data.
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| Added Title |
Spatial database transfer standards two |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Spatial database transfer standards 2. 1st ed. Oxford, UK ; Tarrytown, N.Y. : Published on behalf of the International Cartographic Association by Elsevier Science, 1997 0080424333 9780080424330 (DLC) 96042334 (OCoLC)35325373 |
| ISBN |
9780080541525 (electronic bk.) |
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0080541526 (electronic bk.) |
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9780080424330 |
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0080424333 |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000048131186 |
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DEBBG BV042309042 |
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DEBSZ 36777318X |
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NZ1 12433221 |
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NZ1 15191578 |
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AU@ 000072976125 |
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