FIG Standards Network
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Report of the Results of the FIG Questionnaire on
Standards
Winfried Hawerk (Germany)
Hans Knoop (Germany)
Introduction
The FIG Task Force on Standards has decided to send out a
questionnaire to all member associations of FIG. The aim of this questionnaire
is to collect as much information as possible world-wide about standards and
activities in different countries in this field. A side effect if this
questionnaire shall be to collect addresses of interested people inside the FIG
family. So there should be a chance to establish an information network in FIG.
This should be helpful to exchange information about current activities.
The questionnaire was developed by Iain Greenway
(Chairperson, UK), Winfried Hawerk and Hans Knoop (Germany) and sent out to all
the 85 member associations by the FIG Office in Denmark. It was requested to
send back the questionnaires before 31 March 99.
In addition to that Winfried Hawerk sent out the
questionnaire to all delegates to FIG Commission 7.
Until 13 May 1999 we received 40 replies from the 23
countries shown in picture 1. The addresses of all persons who answered this
questionnaire can be found in appendix 1.
More than one answer was sent back by Argentina (4),
Australia (7), Finland (2), Japan (2), The Netherlands (2), New Zealand (2),
Norway (2), South Africa (2), Sweden (2) and Switzerland (2). In total nearly
30 % of the member associations sent least one answer. This rate is excellent.
The Task Force is very grateful for these contributions.
In this report we were able to pick out only some major
aspects and trends. The quantity of information sent back to the Task force is
so big that it will not be useful to comment details.
Official Standardisation Activities
The majority of the countries replying the questionnaire are
members of ISO. Besides being member of ISO most countries are member of a
regional standardisation body. Regional standardisation bodies which are listed
in the questionnaire are CEN in Europe with 19 participant-members and 14
affiliates and the Pacific Area Standards Congress in Asia, Australia and New
Zealand. Australia and New Zealand cooperate very closely to harmonise their
national standards. Except one country answering this questionnaire all
countries have a national standardisation body. The list of the national
standardisation bodies involved in this evaluation are listed in table 1.
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Country |
National standardisation body |
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Argentina |
Instituto Argentino de Racionalizacion de Materiales
(IRAM) |
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Australia |
Standards Australia (SAA) |
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Austria |
Austrian Standards Institute (ON) |
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Canada |
Canadian Hydrographic Service (SCC) |
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Denmark |
Dansk Standard (DS) |
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Finland |
Suomen Standardisoimisliittory (SFS) |
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Germany |
Deutsches Institut für Normung e. V. (DIN) |
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Hungary |
Hungarian Body for Standardisation (MSZT) |
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Japan |
Japanese Industrial Standards Committee (JISC) |
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Korea |
Korea National Institute of Technology and Quality |
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Malaysia |
Department of Standards (DSM) |
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Netherlands |
Nederlands Normalisatie-Instituut (NNI) |
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New Zealand |
Standards New Zealand (SNZ) |
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Norway |
Norges Standardiseringsforbund (NSF) |
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Poland |
Polish Committee for Standardizations (PKN) |
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Portugal |
Portuguese Institute for Quality (IPQ) |
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Singapore |
Singapore Productivity and Standards Board (PSB) |
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Slovenia |
Standards and Metrology Institute (SMIS) |
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South Africa |
South African Board of Standards (SABS) |
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Sweden |
Standardiseringen i Sverige (SIS) |
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Switzerland |
Schweizerische Normen-Vereinigung (SNV) |
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Zambia |
Zambia Bureau of Standards |
National standardisation bodies
Activities in ISO
The replies show that the major activities in ISO may be
found in TC 211. TC 59, 172 and 204 play as well an important role in the work
in which surveyors are involved but the main tasks on Geographic Information and
standardisation issues are discussed and developed in TC 211.
These results are shown in picture 3. Main topics are the
description of metadata, GI co-ordination conceptional scheme languages as well
as spatial referencing by co-ordinates. Most answers came from experts
representing their country in ISO TCs and working groups. Not as many answers as
expected mentioned activities in the fields of geodetic instruments.
Most ISO standards which are recently in practical use are
ISO 9000 for quality management as it is shown in picture 4. These ISO standards
are momentous in most countries. Some countries use the ISO standards for names
of countries and codes, dates and time. Most countries find a great importance
of standards for the exchange and the description of Geographical data and
modelling languages (like EXPRESS). Standards in the field of Environment
management are in use only in a few countries. Probably a lot more ISO standards
are in use by surveyors all over the world may be in the fields of land
management, geodetic instruments and information technology and more but were
not reported in the answers.
Regional Standardisation Bodies
Regional standardisation bodies as it is understood by the
Task Force are authorised organisations in which standards are defined between
several countries. The answers show only two regional standard bodies in the
world Comité Européen de Normalisation (CEN) in Europe and the Pacific Area
Standards Committee. Most European countries are member in CEN and the answers
show that the main topics which are interesting for surveyors are the same as in
ISO. These topics are Geographic information (CEN/TC 287) and road construction
(CEN/TC 278). CEN has finished most standardisation work in this field and the
members concentrate their work more on ISO activities.
The standards respectively the pre-standards from CEN in the
field of GI are used by surveyors in a number of European countries. . The
activities of the Pacific Area Standards Committee are more in the field of GI
co-ordination but are not described very clearly in the answers to this
questionnaire.
The usefulness of regional standards is not as big as
expected because the further development of ISO standards in these fields
progress very quickly.
National standardisation activities
The description of national standardisation activities vary
from almost nothing to a long list of activities like in Germany especially in
the field GI, geodesy, mapping, instruments, quality management etc. Some
national standards are based on ISO standards or regional standards but it seems
that sometimes these developments are not as consequently co-ordinated as it
could be. The results of the evaluation is shown in picture 5.
De facto standards
De facto standards in form of national laws, codes and
regulations are found in almost all countries to organise the work of surveying
and registration of cadastral data. F. e. In Germany the basic cadastral and
topographical data bases ATKIS, ALK, ALB etc. are good examples of de
facto-standards. Industry data exchange formats became de facto standards
because they are widely used like DXF, TIFF and some others. The Microsoft
products can be defined as a de facto standard because they are used from a big
number of users. This can be said as well from the data transfer protocols like
TCP/IP which is used all over the world in the Internet.
Further standardisation activities
Further activities are not very clearly defined. Most answers
ticked yes but did not give a clear comment which activities in their country
are in planning or discussion. Some keywords here are geodetic standards,
implementation of ISO TC 211 results and OGC. ISO/TC 211 and OGC now have an
agreement for co-operation
Results required from FIG Task Force on Standards
The results of the evaluation to these three questions are
shown in picture 3. The majority of answers to this questionnaire asks for an
information network which should be able to collect more information about what
is going on in ISO. Another problem for most people is to get understandable
publications about standardisation work in ISO. Standards should be more driven
by end-users than from a more theoretical point of view far away from practical
work.
A significant number of answers require a more important role
to be played by FIG in standardisation work. They hope that FIG will get more
influence in ISO/TC 211.
Surveyors shall be more aware of standards, in order to use
the world wide efficiency of official standards, to avoid double work to save
time and money.
Most of the people answering this questionnaire want to get
information about the results of the Task Force’s work and want to be on the
mailing list for any news about future activities.
Appendix
1: List of persons who sent answers to the questionnaire
Senor Angel Zingoni
Departamento Cadastro Provincial
Director
Paimun y Ruta 22
8300 Neuquén
Argentina
Tel. +54-299-4423613
email [email protected]
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Senora Mabel Alvarez de Lopez
Cadastre and Land Information Director
Alejandro Maiz 169
9103 Rawson Chubut
Argentina
Tel. +54-2965-481141-481450
Fax +54-2965-481141-481450
email [email protected]
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Mr. Leonardo Ivars
Departamento Cadastro Municipal
Mitre 524
Esquel Chubut
Argentina
Tel. +54-2945-41921-451064
Fax +54-2945-51923
email [email protected]
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Mr. Eduardo o Connor
Ramón y Cajal 201
9100 Trelew Chubut
Argentina
Tel. +54-2965-432528
Fax +54-2965-432528
email [email protected]
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Mr. Bob Teerink
Surveyors Board of Queensland
Secretary
PO Box 810
4004 Spring Hill Queensland
Australia
Tel. +61-7-3839-7744
Fax +61-7-3839-8341
email [email protected]
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Mr. DJ Hawker
Department of National Resources
Survey Infrastructure Services
Locked Bag 40
Q 4151 Coorparoo Mail Centre Queensland
Australia
Tel. +61-7-3896-3036
Fax +61-7-3891-5168
email
[email protected]
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Mr. John Martin
Land Victoria
Manager Policy Development + Standards
6/436 Lonsdale St.
Melbourne Victoria
Australia
Tel. +61-3-9603-9167
Fax +61-3-9603-9049
email
[email protected]
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Mr. Paul Harcombe
Land Information Centre
Department of Information Technology and Management
Panorama Avenue P.O. Box 143
2795 Bathurst New South Wales
Australia
Tel. +61-2-63335-209
Fax +61-2-63335-217
email [email protected]
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Mr. David Sinclair
Queensland Surveying Society Ltd. (QSS)
Secretary
PO Box 810
4004 Spring Hill Queensland
Australia
Tel. +61-7-3839-7744
Fax +61-7-3839-8341
email [email protected]
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Mr. Graham Brassil
Department of Defence
Directorate of Strategic Military Geographic Information (DSMGI)
M-SB-36 Russel Offices
2600 Canberra ACT
Australia
Tel. +61-2-6265-0508
Fax +61-2-6265-0517
email [email protected]
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Mr. Craig Macauley
Department for Environment, Heritage and Aboriginal Affairs
Resource Information
GPO Box 550
5033 Marleston South Australia
Australia
Tel. +61-8-8226-4849
Fax +61-8-8293-4898
email
[email protected]
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Dipl.-Ing. Ernst Höflinger
Maria-Theresien-Straße 21-23
6021 Innsbruck
Austria
Tel. +43-512-581316
Fax +43-512-577994
email [email protected]
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Senatsrat Dipl.-Ing. Erwin Hynst
MA 41-Stadtvermessung
Muthgasse 62-64
1190 Wien
Austria
Tel. +43-1-4000-89111
Fax +43-1-4000-7941
email [email protected]
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Mr. Rob Hare
Canadian Hydrographic Service
Institute of Ocean Sciences
P.O. Box 6000
V8L 4B2 Sidney B.C.
Canada
Tel. +1-250-363-6595
Fax +1-250-363-6323
email [email protected]
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Mr. Jes Ryttersgaard
National Survey and Cadastre KMS
Informatics Department
Rentemestervej 8
2400 Kobenhavn NV
Denmark
Tel. +45-35-87-5050
email [email protected]
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Mr. M. Kaing
Fr. R. Kreutzwaldi 5
EE2Y00 Tartu
Estonia
Tel. +372-2-422539
Fax +372-2-421053
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Dr. Aulis Tenkanen
Helsinki University of Technology
Docent of Land Management
Saunalahdentie 11A 8
00330 Helsinki
Finland
Tel. +358-9-486452
Fax +358-9-75940401
email [email protected]
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DR.eng. John van den Berg
Tainionkoskentie 85
55120 Imatra 12
Finland
Tel. +358-543-21020
Fax +358-543-19888
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Mr. Reino Ruotsalainen
National Land Survey of Finland
Development Centre
P.O. Box 84
00521 Helsinki
Finland
Tel. +358-20-541-5440
Fax +358-20-541-5454
email
[email protected]
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans Knoop
Head of German Standardsation Body (DIN) concerns Surveying, Mapping and
GIS
Innenministerium Niedersachsen
Lavesallee 6
30169 Hannover
Germany
Tel. +49-511-120-4862
Fax +49-511-120-4855
email
[email protected]
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Dr. Zoltan Forgacs
Institute of Geodesy Cartography and Remote Sensing
Quality Manager
Bosnyak Ter 5
1149 Budapest
Hungary
Tel. +36-1-252-7518
Fax +36-1-252-7918
email [email protected]
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Mr. Takao Seto
Sokkia Co. Ltd.
260-63 Yanagicho, Hase
243-0036 Atsugi, Kanagawa
Japan
Tel. +81-462-48-0034
Fax +81-462-47-1931
email [email protected]
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Mr. Yoshimichi Harada
Japan Federation of Surveyors
President of JFS
1-3-4 koishikawa bunkyo-ku
112-0002 Tokyo
Japan
Tel. 03-3815-5751
Fax 03-5805-7507
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Professor Jungho Kim
Korea Cadastral Survey Corporation
Cadastral Technology Education & Research Institute
624 Unchak-Dong Yongin City
Kyonggi-Do
Korea
Tel. +82-335-335-0851
Fax +82-335-335-0853
email [email protected]
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M. Felix Peckels
OLG Ordre Luxembourgeois des Géomètres
14 rue Robert Stümper
2557 Luxembourg
Luxemburg
Tel. +352-484408
Fax +352-400266
email [email protected]
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Mr. Auke Hoekstra
Kadaster
Concernstaf
Postbus 9046
7300 GH Apeldoorn
Netherlands
Tel. +31-55-5285217
Fax +31-55-3556850
email
[email protected]
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Professor John Hannah
University of Otago
Department of Surveying
P.O. Box 56
Dunedin
New Zealand
Tel. +64-3-479-9010
Fax +64-3-479-7586
email [email protected]
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Mr. Sverre Steen
Statens kartverk
Serviceboks 15
3504 Hönefoss
Norway
Tel. +47-321-18100
Fax +47-321-18101
email [email protected]
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Mr. Morten Borrebaek
Norwegian Mapping Authority
Box 2057 Postterminalen
3103 Toensberg
Norway
Tel. +47-333-71208
Fax +47-333-71275
email
[email protected]
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Prof. Dr. Wojciech Pachelski
Instytut Geodezji i Kartografii
ul. Jasna 2/4
00-950 Warsaw
Poland
Tel. +48-22-827-0328
Fax +48-22-827-0328
email [email protected]
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Mr. Joao Agria Torres
Instituto Portugues de Cartografia e Cadastro (NMA)
Vice President
R. Artilharia VM, 107
1070 Lisboa
Portugal
Tel. +351-1-381-9600
Fax +351-1-381-9699
email [email protected]
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Mr. Pong Chai Goh
Singapore Institute of Surveyors & Valuers
20 Maxwell Road #10-09B Maxwell House
1016 Singapore
Singapore
Tel. +65-2223030
Fax +65-2252453
email [email protected]
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Mr. Tone Kupic
Ministry of the Environment and Physical Planning
Surveying and Mapping Authority
Zemljemerska ulica 12
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
Tel. +386-61-1784850
Fax +386-61-1794909
email [email protected]
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Professor Gaye le Roux
Association of South African Quantity Surveyors
P.O. Box 112518
6006 Centrahil
South Africa
Tel. +27-41-583-2144
Fax +27-41-583-2276
email [email protected]
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Mr. D. G. Clarke
Chief Directorate Surveys & Mapping
Chief Director
Private Bag X10
7705 Mowbray
South Africa
Tel. +27-21-689-9362
Fax +27-21-689-1351
email [email protected]
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Mrs. Kristina Essen
Swedish General Standards Institute
Project leader
11289 Stockholm
Sweden
Tel. +46-8-136250
Fax +46-8-6186128
email [email protected]
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Mr. H. R. Gnägi
IGP ETHZ
ETH Hönggerberg HIL D54.4
8093 Zürich
Switzerland
Tel. +41-1-633-3060
Fax +41-1-633-1101
email [email protected]
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Mr. Emmanuel Tembo
Department of Surveying
School of Engineering
P.O. Box 32379
Lusaka
Zambia
Tel. +260-1-291777
email [email protected]
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