Spatial Database Transfer Standards 2: Characteristics for Assessing Standards and Full Descriptions of the National and International Standards in the World The ICA Commission on Standards for the Transfer of Spatial Data December, 1996 \9A Editor Prof. Harold Moellering Department of Geography 1036 DB Ohio State University Columbus, OH USA 43210 Tel: (614) 292-2608 FAX: (614) 292-6213 Internet: GEOHAL + @OSU.EDU Associate Editor Mr. Richard Hogan SDTS Coordinator US Geological Survey 526 National Center Reston, VA USA 22092 Tel: + 1 (703) 648-5531 FAX: + 1 (703) 648-4722 E-mail: r/hogan@usgs.gov INTERNATIONAL CARTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION PERGAMON Copyright ICA Commission on Standards for the Transfer of Spatial Data, 1996. All Rights Reserved. Published on behalf of the International Cartographic Association by Elsevier Science
TABLE OF CONTENTS Presidential Foreword Preface ix xi PARTI AN INTRODUCTION TO WORLD DATABASE TRANSFER STANDARDS Harold Moellering 3 PART 2 REGIONAL SUMMARIES OF STANDARDS DEVELOP- MENT ACTIVITIES IN THE WORLD EUROPE Standardization in the Field of Geographic Information: The European Efforts Francois Salge 17 NORTH AMERICA \ Spatial Data Transfer Standards Activities in North America Richard L. Hogan and Mark Sondheim 31 ASIA-PACIFIC Developing a Geographic Data Infrastructure: An Asia/Pacific Perspective Andrew L. Clarke 39 ISO ACTIVITIES ISO Standardization in the Field of Geographic Information: The Global Perspective Olaf 0stensen 51 PART 3 TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS FOR ASSESSING STANDARDS FOR THE TRANSFER OF SPATIAL DATA Edited by Harold Moellering and Kathryn Clement I INTRODUCTION 63 II EXPLANATIONS OF TERMINOLOGY 64 III QUESTIONNAIRE 66 0 ASSESSMENT INFORMATION 66 1 ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION 66 V
vi Table of Contents 2 TRANSFER CONTEXT 67 3 TRANSFER SPECIFICATION METHOD. 68 4 CONCEPTUAL DATA MODEL/SCHEMA 69 5 TRANSFER PROCESS 69 6 TRANSFER ELEMENTS... 69 7 UPDATE INFORMATION 70 8 QUERY INFORMATION 71 9 QUALITY INFORMATION. 71 10 FEATURE/OBJECT INFORMATION 71 11 ATTRIBUTE INFORMATION 72 12 RELATIONSHIP INFORMATION.......... 73 13 METADATA INFORMATION 73 PART 4 FULL INTERNATIONAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE TRANSFER STANDARDS \ AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA - SPATIAL DATA TRANSFER STANDARD (AUS-SDTS) Andrew L. Clarke '.. 77 AUSTRIA AUSTRIAN INTERFACE FOR DIGITAL EXCHANGE OF GEOGRAPHIC DATA (A2260) Werner Kuhn 87 CANADA SPATIAL ARCHIVE AND INTERCHANGE FORMAT (SAIF) Mark Sondheim, Henry Kuchera, Peter Friesen, Dale Lutz and Don Murray 95 CHINA DATA EXCHANGE FORMAT FOR INFORMATION OF SURVEYING AND MAPPING (DEFS) Du Daosheng 113 FINLAND EDI BASED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SERVICE (JHS 111-119) Antti Rainio 123
Table of Contents vii FRANCE TRAITEMENT DE L'INFORMATION GEOGRAPHIQUE NUMERIQUE: ECHANGE DE DONNEES INFORMATISE DANS LE DOMAINE DE L'INFORMATION GEO- GRAPHIQUE (EDIGeO) Francois Salge 137 GERMANY EINHEITLICHE DATENBANKSCHNITT STELLE (EDBS) FUR DIE AUTOMATISIERTE LIEGENSCHAFTSKARTE (ALK) UND DAS AMTLICHE TOPQGRAPHISCH- KARTOGRAPHISCHE INFORMATIONSSYSTEM (ALK/ ATKIS-EDBS) Heinz Briiggemann and Barbel Salzborn-Schoepe 157 ISRAEL ISRAEL EXCHANGE FORMAT 1991 (IEF '91) Ammatzia Peled 171 JAPAN STANDARD PROCEDURE AND DATA FORMAT FOR DIGITAL MAPPING (SPDFDM) Akira Yaguchi 179 NETHERLANDS AUTOMATED DATA PROCESSING. INTERCHANGE FORMAT FOR DATA OF OBJECTS RELATED TO THE EARTH'S SURFACE (NEN 1878) H.J.G.L. Aalders 187 NORWAY COORDINATED APPROACH TO SPATIAL INFOR- MATION (SOSI) Morten Borrebaek and Olaf 0stensen 201 RUSSIAN FEDERATION DIGITAL AND ELECTRONIC MAPS TRANSFER STANDARD (DEMTS) Alexander I. Martynenko 213 SOUTH AFRICA NATIONAL STANDARD FOR THE EXCHANGE OF DIGITAL GEO-REFERENCED INFORMATION (NES) Antony K. Cooper 225 SPAIN NORMA DE INTERCAMBIO DE CARTOGRAFIA CATASTRAL (NICCa) Sebastian Mas 237 SWITZERLAND INTERLIS, DATA EXCHANGE MECHANISM FOR LIS (INTERLIS) Hans R. Gnaegi and Stephan Nebiker 247
viii Table of Contents UNITED KINGDOM ELECTRONIC TRANSFER OF GEOGRAPHIC INFOR- MATION (NTF) M. Sowton 259 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SPATIAL DATA TRANSFER STANDARD (SDTS) Richard L. Hogan 271 COMITE EUROPEEN DES RESPONSABLES DE LA CARTOGRAPHIE OFFICIELLE EUROPEAN TERRITORIAL DATA BASE (ETDB) Francois Salge 289 COMITE EUROPEEN DE NORMALISATION COMITE TECHNIQUE 287 SECRETARIAT Full Description of the CEN/TC287 Family of Standards (CEN/TC287) Francois Salge 299 COMITE EUROPEEN DE NORMALISATION COMITE TECHNIQUE 278/7 SECRETARIAT GEOGRAPHIC DATA FILES (GDF) Rob van Essen and Kees Wevers 313 DIGITAL GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION WORKING GROUP \ DIGITAL GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION EXCHANGE STANDARD (DIGEST) Herman Dohmann, Mark Phillips, Doug O'Brien and Paul Hibbert 331 INTERNATIONAL HYDROGRAPHIC ORGANIZATION IHO TRANSFER STANDARD FOR DIGITAL HYDRO- GRAPHIC DATA (S-57) Robert Sandvik, Hugh Phillips and Michael Huet 355 INDEX. 369 PART 5 CROSSTABLE OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SPATIAL DATA TRANSFER STANDARDS Edited by Harold Moellering