Digital Geographic Exchange Standard
{{Short description|NATO military standard (STANAG 7074)}}
NATO Standardization Agreement (STANAG) 7074, Digital Geographic Information Exchange Standard (DIGEST), is a military standard for the exchange of geographic information. It was developed by the Defence Geospatial Information Working Group (DGIWG).
Standard
The standard is related to a number of other international standards. DGIWG continues to work on interoperability standards for geographic data exchange between various military systems and geographic information systems in general.{{Citation needed|date=March 2022}}
After revision 2.1 of DIGEST, released in September 2000, the DGIWG discontinued work on the standard and is focusing on incorporating its standards as profiles in ISO/TC 211.[https://www.dgiwg.org/dgiwg/htm/about_DGIWG/background.htm DGIWG]
Authors
Defence Geospatial Information Working Group (DGIWG), prior to 2008 "Digital Geographic Information Working Group", is a multi-national body working on interoperability standards for geographic data exchange between military systems and geographic information systems in general. The organization has a number of member nations mostly from NATO.{{Citation needed|date=March 2022}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.dgiwg.org/dgiwg/htm/documents/historical_documents.htm DIGEST standard]
- [http://www.dgiwg.org DGIWG website]
- [http://www.isotc211.org ISO/TC 211 website]
- [http://www.isotc211.org/Outreach/Overview/Overview.htm Overviews of ISO 19100 series] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080318163640/http://www.isotc211.org/Outreach/Overview/Overview.htm |date=2008-03-18 }}