I think all who made it to Leicester on Friday will agree it was a very good
day. A lot of useful discussion came out of the morning section and Stuart
Bryant has agreed to write this up for the next SMR News.
Several people asked me if Alphena's Statement on SM boundaries could be
posted to the forum so here it is:
"The situation with the SM boundaries are as follows:
1. The data created on the computer mapping system (CMS) now resides on
HSIS. However, the CMS scheduled monument boundaries are a series of lines
and not closed polygons. The exercise to move the SM boundary data from the
CMS could not distinguish between the boundary and the labels used to
identify the SM. The SM data in it's current format is not useable within
HSIS.
2. We are working with MAGIC (six month pilot) to look at how to recreate
the SM polygons so that they are useable within a GIS environment. Each
polygon will need to be looked at and re-labelled and attributed according
to the requirements of HSIS.
3. Once the CMS SM data is recreated as a polygon, the polygons will need
to be validated against the latest Ordnance Survey 1:10k map base.
4. SM created on HSIS will also need to be validated against the latest OS
1:10k map base.
That is generally what is happening, there's no mystery!
Hope this is of some help, if you need any more information or clarity of
any of the points above, please let me know."
The presentation on FISH by Edmund Lee has now been posted on the SMR Forum
Archive at JISC Mail.
If anyone has a suitable venue for the next meeting and are willing to host
the Group can they please let me know.
The Issue of the name of the Group has also been raised again as it is
mainly SMR staff who attend rather than users, what do list members think?
Someone left a small black notebook on one of the chairs, I have this if the
person wants to contact me (off list please) I'll post it to them.
It only remains for me to thank all those who attended, Jason for chairing
in Emma's absence and those who presented and led discussion groups.
Best Wishes
Martin
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Martin Newman
Heritage Information Partnerships Supervisor
National Monuments Record
English Heritage
Phone - 01793 414718
Email - [log in to unmask]
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