I think Jason has managed to summarise very well what I was driving
at.
The lack of standards has inhibited and will inhibit future use of
national projects such as
historic landscapes and urban surveys. Many SMRs are now grappling
with how best to depict
the historic environment on CAD and GIS, for polygons and lines, and
also points. There is also the
issue of whether it is possible to define standard symbol sets for
heritage features, especially as the OS
seem less keen on showing archaeological sites on their digital
maps. These are clearly areas for
the heritage sector to address and there don't seem to be any other
contendors than FISH. English Heritage
started a spatial standards working party some time ago but that
soon fizzled out. As Jason says, it is time
something was done while the problem is relatively small, but the
problem is growing fast.
Paul Gilman
Heritage Information and Records Manager
Essex County Council
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