Dear All,
I'm just about to go into a meeting so will not be back on 'til later, but I feel strongly that a GIS iconic thesaurus should be created. This should provide standardised, inter-subjective, icons and representations of historic environment information on MapInfo, ArcView and CAD systems. There should be standard 'lock-on' grid point conventions for inclusion in .dxf files to make them always translatable by the universal translators of MapInfo & ArcView. Icons should be developed for events, sources, and monuments. Line thickness and colour conventions should be specified for monument polygons. This would enable contractors to provide digital information to SMRs in a standard way, and enable them to more precisely cost the work of digitising. If FISH has to do this in conjunction with the OS and the GIS software companies, then so be it.
Cheers,
Neil
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