5th adc meeting

14.10 Ivan DeLoatch presented the status of DA-06-05, Guidelines for Basic Geographic Data
Status of progress is:

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  31 July 08: Comments were received. Recommendation to propose new task on Global Map, large scale map (1:1 mil).
  
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  20 August 08: Informal meeting of ISCGM was held in Kuala Lumpur. Current DA-06-05 task and proposed task for GEO Work Plan were reported.
  
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  27 August 08: Final draft guideline of version 3_beta was prepared.
  
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  29 August 08: Final draft guideline was delivered for final review of contributors.
  

Issues include:

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  New task proposal on 9 May 2008 for GEO Work Plan 2009-2011 is replaced by the task of Global Map for GEO Societal Benefit Area on 31 July 2008.
  
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  31 July 08: Comments were received. One of the facts found in this task is that most of tasks of GEO societal benefit area use small scale maps, therefore, a new task on Global Map is more suitable than follow up task of DA-06-05.
  
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  Completion in September 2008: Final guidance document will be prepared and will be up on the ISCGM (International Steering Committee for Global Mapping) web.