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Spatial standards for the Internet of Things

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Precise and accurate location (spatial) information enhance our association with our natural and built environments. This report looks at the global effort to weave different sources and formats of spatial information together so that they can be useful to people wherever they are and whatever they are doing.

Related work in ITU

ITU-T Study Group 11: Protocols and test specifications
ITU-T Study Group 13: Future networks
ITU-T Study Group 16: Multimedia
ITU-T Study Group 17: Security
ITU: Global standards for the Internet of Things

Related standardization

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
ISO TC211: Geographic information/Geomatics
IETF GEOPRIV
OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee
W3C PoI Working Group

Other resources

PEW Internet: Report on location-based services (2012)
Sinsai (Japan)
Ushahidi

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Authors

Staff and members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), in collaboration with the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau.

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