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

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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Appreciate its completeness, quality and up-to-dateness

SABE customers

Geodata

CEPS/INSTEAD

ISTAR

Alpine Convention

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The most popular countries in SABE (1st half of 2004)Precentages of revenue of licensed countries (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)

Administrative units

Transport

Hydrography

Elevation

Cadastral parcels

Ortho-imagery

Protected sites (out of scope)

Land cover (out of scope)

Referencing and coordinate systems

Coordinate reference systems CRS

Geographical grid systems

Geographical Names

Addresses

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EuroBoundaries

RISE

GISS

EuroGeoNames

EuroRoadS

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EuroSpec – a programme of interdependent projects

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Requirements

Specifications

Service Architecture

Prototype

Business case

Implementation plan

Expert Groups• Specifications• Service Architecture• Geodesy• Legal & Commercial• Quality• CadastreINSPIRE 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

Service

Content

On-line orderingOff-line delivery

SABE2001 v1.1EGM v1.1ERM (7)

Today

On-line orderingElectronic downloadMetadata, CRSCentralised service

De-centralised service(for some NMCAs)

De-centralised service(extended to more NMCAs)

Jan2008

Jan2005

Jan2007

Jan2006

SABE updates ERM 25+

EGM v2

Roads(prototype)

WaterElevation(prototype)

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Conclusions

• Metadata

• Data specifications

• Network services

• Data policy

• People & organisations