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a contribution toa contribution to the EGII the EGII & the European Mosaic& the European Mosaic

forfor

CClaude Luzet, Executive Director, laude Luzet, Executive Director, EuroGeographicsEuroGeographics

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Quid of an <x>.S.D.I. ?Quid of an <x>.S.D.I. ?

data

produced & maintained, distributed to users managed through an

organisational framework implementing a known policy

supported by standards, & technology and consuming resources

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Organisation - step one (1980)Organisation - step one (1980)

a network of– national deciders– expertise

common strategies & policies

37 member NMAs

President

Sec. Gen.

Management Board

WG WG WG WG

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Chairman

Management Board

Exec. Dir.

Service Centre

Project Team

20 member NMAs

Organisation - step two (1993)Organisation - step two (1993)

a operational organisation– with financial and

human resources

contributing to– data discovery– data access

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membershipmembership

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Organisation - step three (2001)Organisation - step three (2001)

THE MISSIONTHE MISSION“To represent Europe’s National Mapping

Agencies working for the European Geographic Information Infrastructure”

+=

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Policy - objectives Policy - objectives

to make data bases of European NMAs interoperable, and widely available

to assist in the creation of information needed but not available

to influence decision-making by the EC on the development of a GI policy

promote and facilitate collaboration between Members, between Members and other partners

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Policy - “external”Policy - “external”

A GI policy for Europe?

– GI2000, EGII»ETeMII, GINIE...

More direct dialog with COGI? ?

Partner in international initiatives:– GSDI, GlobalMap, UNGIWG,

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Really a RSDI?Really a RSDI?

WPLA

Own resources, own data

Similar to PCGIAP, PC-IDEA

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Data discovery - GDDDData discovery - GDDD

Web pagesGDDD Web service

GDDD basedData collection

NMAs’GDDD

DB

GDDDMaster

DB

Central database– 230 datasets – 25 countries

Data maintenance

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Data discovery & access - LaClefData discovery & access - LaClef

EuroMap- Finderuser

interface

GDDD v.3Central Meta

DB

DB 1

DB 2

On- line

On- line

On- line DB

3

Metadata Creation

tool

Dynamic html

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Data : SABE @ BKG-GermanyData : SABE @ BKG-Germany

previous version

expected 2001

added2000

Seamless

Administrative

Boundaries

of Europe

3 versions– ‘91, ‘95, ‘97– 2001

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Data : SABE Data : SABE

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Data - (Euro)Global MapData - (Euro)Global Map

an updated 1:1M pan-European DB = the European seamless contribution to GM

target date : most of Europe by end 2003 project co-ordination

@ National Land Survey of Finland issue :

– access policy : free versus fees

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Data - new initiativesData - new initiatives

EuroRegionalMap– 1:250k vector seamless reference data– multipurpose applications– finances to be secured before project actually

starts full scale

Road Data and services– key for future applications– first step taken for a wide public-private

partnership based on complementarities

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Conclusions (1)Conclusions (1)

National Mapping Agencies general assets– national mandate/mission to provide service to

• government agencies, all citizens

– permanent resources• competent staff• significant material investments

– a treasure of information• historical repository of knowledge• reference data

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Conclusions (2)Conclusions (2)

National Mapping Agencies new assets– 20 years of pan-European co-ordination

• CERCO > MEGRIN >> EuroGeographics

– begin to have a mandate (and a budget) for European issues

• France, Germany, GB, …

– increased partnerships with private sector• individual agreements• Europe-wide forum

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www.eurogeographics.orgwww.eurogeographics.org

NMAs “the” major players in terms of reference data

>>> major contributors to the framework that allows “Managing the Mosaic”

working collectively within