Re: New Chairs, New Year, Real progress

Hi Phil and well met Michael and Andrea.

From the Australian position - well secured - a solid and truely expert lead on this activity can only bode well.

On behalf of the *.gov.au spatial community here, we (and with no presumptions - I've already forwarded to Chris Body and the OSP - I'm sure Chris will be very happy with the outcome - he always speaks highly of our INSPIRE collegues) look forward to working with Michael and Andrea on this important piece of work.

Cheers

Chris Beer
Invited Expert - GLD WG &
Member - Australian Government Spatial Data Management Group


Sent from Samsung MobilePhil Archer <phila@w3.org> wrote:Dear all,

I am very aware that it is many months since the Locations and Addressed 
Community group was formed, since when the amount of activity here has 
been close to zero. That's because we've been working to get the right 
chairs in place.

I am delighted to say that this has now happened and that we're ready to go.

The CG will be co-chaired by Michael Lutz and Andrea Perego of the 
European Commission's Digital Earth and Reference Data Unit [1]. That's 
a mouthful but it means that Michael, Andrea and their colleagues are 
the people responsible for developing the INSPIRE Guidelines. For 
non-Europeans, that's a set of guidelines/standards for representing 
geospatial and environmental data that Member States are legally obliged 
to use.

Between now and Christmas, Michael and Andrea will prepare some 
materials on the group's wiki designed to survey the current standards 
in use and attitudes towards them. That will be in important starting 
point for the group.

So... thank you for you patience, expect to see this mailing list get 
into swing with a few messages in the coming weeks and a lot more in the 
new year.

Phil

[1] http://ies.jrc.ec.europa.eu/DE


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