- The increasing efficiency of computer processing is
permitting relatively easy change in digital data
format.
Resolves:
That a committee of key-people he formed to:
- Foster exchange of automated cartography infor
mation.
- Develop and recommend a format that can be
implemented on a world wide basis that will permit
ready exchange of digital data?'
The commissions
For the next two congress periods commission 3
will deal with the topic land information systems.
It is clear that commission 3 will have to lean con
tinuously upon the specialized knowledge and the
experience of the other 8 commissions.
Let us pass in review the tasks of the nine commis
sions of the F.I.G. and let us trace the relation of
each of these commissions to the topic land informa
tion systems.
Commission 1
The commission deals with the status of the profes
sion, organization and legal systems of importance
for the surveyor's task. The new technical facilities
are causing a revolution in our profession.
To survive this technical revolution it is necessary
that a professional (r)evolution takes place.
The old surveyor was the man who collected,
processed, stored or retrieved data of information in
a lot of different ways.
The new surveyor will have to be the manager in
the process of collecting, processing, storing and
retrieving of information in more standardized
ways. This problem concerns the surveyor in public
service as well as the free practicioner. Discussing
this problem is a special task of commission I.
There is another problem to which attention should
be drawn in this commission. To turn the decentral
way of collecting data into good channels, measures
on a national level are necessary. In many cases
legal measures will be necessary. The interchange
of views on the matter of the legal systems could be
another task of commission 1.
According to the decision of the P.C. in Paris in
1978, the commission now deals with the education
and training of surveyors, professional literature
and the marketing of the profession.
There are several ways to come to the consensus
which is an essential condition for the creation of
common standards. One of these is education. For
the exchange of geodetic experience and knowledge
it is necessary to agree on a basic language. Chan
ging methods are bringing other usage with them.
Discussing the above mentioned problems of educa
tion and professional literature in relation to land
information systems is a special problem of com
mission 2.
Commission 3
According to the decisions of the P.C. in Paris in
1978, the commission deals with the collecting, up
dating, storing, treating and presenting of informa
tion concerning land during the next two periods
1979-1981 and 1982-1984.
The main task of commission 3 within the F.I.G
will be an organizational one. It will be necessary
to organize well the exchange of views regarding
land information systems.
Use will have to be made of the specialized know
ledge of the other commissions.
Commission 4
Hydrography is a topic that has nothing to do with
"land" information systems at first sight. However,
in the U.S. shipboard data acquisition systems are
developed and computer assisted systems for the
total process of nautical charting aie designed and
implemented. Digitizing systems are already placed
in operation for the systematic conversion of graphic
chart data to digital format for a nautical chart
data bank. It is clear that the technical revolution
is touching the hydrography as well. As a result
commission 4 of the F.I.G. is confronted with equal
problems like for instance commission 5.
Commission 5
The driving force behind the professional revolution
is the technical development. It is the task of the most
technical of the commissions of the F.I.G. to discuss
the new instruments, survey methods and mapping.
Main problem in this field is the development of
common standards for both form and quality.
Commission 2
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