ISO/TC 211 remembers 2003

In 2003 we published the first editions of several of our most influential standards:

March: ISO 19111 Referencing by coordinates, revised many times, most recently in 2019 & out for vote to revise again. This explains how a set of numbers (usually two or three!) can relate to a place on the earth. It’s been revised to cope with improved technologies, tectonic plate movement, crustal deformation, and emerging use on other planets.

May: ISO 19107 Spatial Schema, revised 2019. Implementing a subset of this is why basic geometric objects (curves, polygons etc) “just work” between systems

May: ISO 19115 Metadata, now a 3-part standard with Part 4 in progress (JSON encoding). It remains our best seller, often putting the cataloguing of geographic information way ahead of the “findability” of other data, and providing an entry point to our family of standards.

October: ISO 19112 Spatial referencing by identifiers, revised 2019

September: ISO 19114 Quality evaluation procedures, now absorbed into ISO 19157 Data quality