EuroGeographics Update

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EuroGeographics Update

• Nick Land, Executive Director

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The Association

• Growing! 46 organisations from 41 countries
• Integration with cadastre
• Roles best practice, lobbying, product
  development sales
• 5 Head Office staff
• President Dietmar Grünreich, BKG Germany

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Why is Europe important?
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Increasing need for pan-European GI

• European Directives, Communications, programmes
• At least 25 requiring GI
• European GI developments
• Galileo, GMES (both operational in 2008)
• Funding programmes
• eContentplus focus on GI
• FP6

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Legislative developments

• PSI directive
• Focus on value added use
• Compliance by MS, 1st July 2005
• INSPIRE proposed directive
• Focus on public sector use
• Entry into force in 2007?
• Specifications for reference data in 2009 and
  2012?
• Metadata service available in 2010?

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SABE customers
Appreciate its completeness, quality and
up-to-dateness
Alpine Convention
CEPS/INSTEAD
ISTAR
Geodata
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The most popular countries in SABE (1st half of
2004)
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EuroGeographics strategy
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Strategic goals

• Achieve interoperability of NMCA information
• Specifications (set the de facto standards)
• Pricing and licensing framework (to improve
  access to information)
• Service infrastructure (from centralised to
  distributed)
• Partnerships (network)
• Sustainable financial model

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Key steps

• Improve access to existing national reference
  information (short term)
• Metadata, Pricing Licensing, Coordinate
  Reference Service
• Provide small scales, harmonised, pan-European
  products (short/medium term)
• SABE, EuroGlobalMap, EuroRegionalMap
• Develop larger scales, interoperable,
  pan-European products/services (longer term)
• Theme by theme

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Reference information (INSPIRE) Reference information (INSPIRE) Reference information (INSPIRE)
Administrative units
Transport
Hydrography
Elevation
Cadastral parcels
Ortho-imagery
Protected sites (out of scope)
Land cover (out of scope)
Referencing and coordinate systems Referencing and coordinate systems Referencing and coordinate systems
Coordinate reference systems CRS
Geographical grid systems
Geographical Names
Addresses
Small scale ERM EGM
SABE
EuroBoundaries
EuroRoadS
RISE
ltltlt EuroSpec gtgtgt
EULIS?
CRS
GISS
EuroGeoNames
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EuroSpec a programme of interdependent projects

• Expert Groups
• Specifications
• Service Architecture
• Geodesy
• Legal Commercial
• Quality
• Cadastre

INSPIRE directive drafting groups
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Improving access to reference information

• EuroMapFinder
• On-line ordering
• Pricing Licensing
• Partner network
• www.eurogeographics.org

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High level project plan
De-centralised service (extended to more NMCAs)
On-line ordering Off-line delivery
On-line ordering Electronic download Metadata,
CRS Centralised service
De-centralised service (for some NMCAs)
Service
Content
SABE2001 v1.1 EGM v1.1 ERM (7)
EGM v2
SABE updates
ERM 25
Roads (prototype)
Water Elevation (prototype)
Jan 2008
Jan 2005
Jan 2007
Jan 2006
Today
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Conclusions

• Metadata
• Data specifications
• Network services
• Data policy
• People organisations