Re: New Chairs, New Year, Real progress

Thanks for your effort Phil and congrats to Michael and Andrea

On 06/12/2012 18:10, Phil Archer 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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