C. Enrique Ortiz | Mobile Things

The ISO has been working on a number of specifications to standardize Geographic information or Geomatics. Below is some information related to this.

1. ISO 19134





“ISO 19134 specifies the data types and their associated operations for the implementation of multimodal location-based services for routing and navigation. It is designed to specify web services that may be made available to wireless devices through web-resident proxy applications, but is not limited to that environment.”

2. Scholars develop protocol for 'LBS,' new wireless Internet technology






Photo Source: University of Illinois-UC



University of Illinois professor of urban and regional planning T. John Kim, along with University of Illinois postdoctoral fellow Sung-Gheel Jang, have developed the protocol for international standard for geographic information systems (GIS), which Kim says is the “backbone” of location- based services (LBS). He says the LBS protocol has been adopted and published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and endorsed by 29 nations so far.





“LBS combine hardware devices, wireless communication networks, geographic information and software applications that provide location-related guidance for customers,” Kim says. “It differs from mobile position determination systems such as global positioning systems in that location-based services provide much broader, application-oriented location services.”

Via the ACM. See article at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign News Bureau.

3. From the Geographic information/Geomatics Technical Committee:




Standards of ISO Technical Committee 211 - Geographic information/Geomatics

4. Summary of related Spatial Data ISO standards:




a. Spatial Data Infrastructure Standards — Access, Technology


ISO 19116 - Positioning services


ISO 19117 - Portrayal


ISO 19118 - Encoding


ISO 19119 - Services


ISO 19125-1 - Simple feature access -Common architecture


ISO 19125-2 - SFA - SQL option


ISO 19128 - Web Map Server Interface


ISO 19132 - Location based services possible standards


ISO 19133 - Location based services tracking and navigation


ISO 19134 - Multimodal location based services for routing and navigation


ISO 19136 - Geography Markup Language (GML)


ISO 19142 - Web Feature Service


ISO 19143 - Filter encoding

b. Spatial Data Infrastructure Standards — Content


ISO 19103 - Conceptual schema language


ISO 19107 - Spatial schema - ISO 19108 - Temporal schema


ISO 19109 - Rules for application schema


ISO 19110 - Feature cataloguing methodology


ISO 19111 - Spatial referencing by coordinates


ISO 19112 - Spatial referencing by geographic identifiers


ISO 19113 - Quality principles


ISO 19114 - Quality evaluation procedures


ISO 19115 - Metadata - ISO/TR 19121 - Imagery and gridded data


ISO 19123 - Schema for coverage geometry and functions


ISO 19124 - Imagery and gridded data components


ISO 19127 - Geodetic codes and parameters


ISO 19129 - Imagery, gridded and coverage data framework


ISO 19130 - Sensor and data model for imagery and gridded data


ISO 19131 - Data product specification


ISO 19137 - Generally used profiles of the spatial schema and of similar important other schemas


ISO 19138 - Data quality measures


ISO 19139 - Metadata - Implementation Specification


ISO 19141- Schema for moving features

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