Compass Informatics will co-sponsor the CEN/TC 287 Interoperability Workshop to be held on March 1st in Paris. This will be a particularly important meeting as it will bring the key organisations of CEN, ISO, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), and JRC/INSPIRE together with a view towards agreement Gearóid Ó Riain, managing director of Compass Informatics, will present at the workshop which will also be attended by other policy and technical Compass staff.
The CEN/TC 287 interoperability workshop will be hosted by AFNOR, at their head offices in Paris.
In the field of geographic information, CEN/TC 287 is mandated to create European specific standards, technical reports, guidelines and other documents where appropriate. The aim is to achieve interoperability and consistency of geographic information across borders in CEN member states. While CEN is the European standards body, its members reach beyond Europe into countries who agree to adopt these standards.
It is widely recognized that the work carried out by INSPIRE is of international interest while maintaining its strong European focus and CEN needs to be ready to compliment this important work in the form of best practices and standards.
OGC has, for some time now, successfully operated test beds for standards and to combine these activities will give a stronger interoperable Europe.
ISO/TC 211 Geographic information committee develops and maintains international standards. However, there is an increased awareness that the development of European standards specifically to meet the needs of Europe will be of benefit.
This workshop will look at how national spatial infrastructures, mandated by the INSPIRE directive can be supported by CEN/TC 287 for the purpose of both best practice and interoperability.
For more information adn to register see http://www.gistandards.eu.