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Nordisk GIS-konferanse 2003

Kari StrandeINSPIRE expert groupEUROGI representing GeoForumFIG com 3 - NSDI

GI-policy in EU

Policy drivers•Telecommunications Policy•Public Sector Information Policies•e-Government•Environmental Policy•EU-Accession•Wider Europe•GSDI

GI-policy in EU

GI-policy in EU

Key Players•Pan European GI Market Players•National GI Associations•Pan European Organisations•Users at European Level•Global GI Organsations•European Commissions Inititatives•COGI•EUROSTAT - GISCO

INSPIREEUROSTATJRCDG-ENVIRONMENT

GINIEEUROGIOGCJRCUniversity of Sheffield

GI-policy in EU

GI-policy in EU

I N S P I R EI N S P I R EINfrastructure for SPatial InfoRmation in Europe

http://inspire.jrc.it/

INSPIRE:Launched by MoU

MoU triggered:

-18 months of intensive voluntary collaboration of over 100 experts in MS and accession countries

-Definition of scope and measures of legislative framework

-Impact assessment

-Widespread support as demonstrated by Internet consultation

Why does Europe need an SDI?

• Existing information difficult to find and access;

• Lack of information on updating and observation methods (metadata);

• Barriers to sharing data and reuse;

• Lack of standardisation in data exchange and representation;

• Varying data quality within the same information layer across countries and regions

Good policies require quality information!

Europe has lots of information, but fragmented and suffering some key problems:

• Data should be collected once and maintained at the level where this can be done most effectively

• Combine seamlessly spatial data from different sources across the EU and share it between many users and applications

• Spatial data should be collected at one level of government and shared between all levels of government

• Spatial data needed for good governance should be available on conditions that are not restricting its extensive use

• It should be easy to discover which spatial data is available, to evaluate its fitness for purpose and to know which conditions apply for its use

INSPIREPrinciples

0 m < Difference < 50 m

50 m < Difference < 200 m

Difference > 200 m

CORINE Land Cover 1990

SABE Coastline

Example:

All the data are

not interoperable

Example:

All the data are

not interoperable

What can an SDI do for European users?

• European SDI would support formulation, implementation and monitoring of common policies in Europe

• A glance into the future:

- Urban ozone monitoring systems

- Forest fire risk monitoring systems

- Flood prediction and monitoring systems

- Oils spills

- Erosion

• European SDI would have significant spin-offs for research, education and the private sector and have societal benefits


Because good policies require quality information!

A glance in the future:


Relevance: Cafe, Environement and health strategy, local authorities, the citizens…






Forest fires damage and risk assessment

Relevance: early reaction and preparedness, mitigation and compensation, local to global action planning

Flooding process

in the Rhine valley

by Bonn R

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Flooding process

of the Rhine

- city of Bonn






Coastal erosion

Required data sources: Terrestrial Administrative and maritime boundaries, Shoreline, Bathymetry, Elevation, Geomorphology and geology, Erosion trends and coastal, defence works, Hydrography, Infrastructure, Wave and wind climate, Tidal regime, Sea level rise, Land cover and land cover changes, Areas of high ecological value

What is the purpose of a European SDI?

• To ensure implementation throughout Europe of the measures needed to address the obstacles to the use of spatial information across borders

• To free the potential of the use of existing information currently locked up by the GI obstacles

• To deliver the capacity to integrate information from different sources

• To provide a framework in which information collected at the local and regional level can be used in a national and european context and vice versa

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INSPIRE state of the play

• Recommendations on legal issues– build upon subsidiarity but do involve regional

and local levels– ensure complementarity with related legal

initiatives, e.g. PSI– ensure compliance with the data protection

directive– cope with authors rights and copyright– compliance with competition law

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• Recommendations on organisational issues– promote the creation of GI-associations– promote the creation of thematic centres of

excellence

• Recommendations on reference data and core thematic data– clear priorities for data content– link with other major EU initiatives

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• Recommendations on access services– promote a single EU geo-portal

• Recommendations on standardisation– urgent need to address the migration of existing

metadata(systems) to a common standard

• Recommendations on funding– dedicate funds to transnational projects– assess every EU-level GI-project on INSPIRE

compatibility

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INSPIRE in relation to GMES

• GMES overall plan– 2002-03: initial period:

• To identify the strenghts and weaknesses of the current capacity and the needs for improvement in the scientific, technical, socio-economic and institutional domains

– 2004-08: implementation period:• To establish a European (autonomous, operational)

capacity for Global Monitoring of the Environment and Security

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INSPIRE in relation to GMES

• Call november 2003– Thematic projects

• Water resources

• Atmosphere

• Risk Management

• Information management tools

– Data Harmonization Project

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INSPIRE future actions

• Draft document ready, Interservice consultation still under discussion

• Actions towards implementation strategy continue

• Call for tender to be launched in November (co-financed by DG ENV and EUROSTAT)

• GMES call in November

INSPIRE Key Measures

Measure 1: Document existing spatial data

Measure 2: Contribute to data standards and harmonise existing data

Measure 3: Establish service network to publish, discover, evaluate, view and access spatial according to common standards

Measure 4: Establish licensing framework to share information between public bodies

1. Geographical location

2. Administrative units

3. Properties, buildings and addresses

4. Elevation

5. Geo-physical environment

6. Land surface/land cover

7. Transport

8. Utilities and facilities

9. Society and population

10. Spatial planning/ Area regulation

11. Air and climate

12. Water/hydrography

13. Ocean and seas

14. Biota/biodiversity

15. Natural resources

16. Natural and technological risks and natural disasters

17. Areas under anthropogenic stress

INSPIRE Scope: 17 Themes

CASE STUDY

• Main objective: to visualise and empower practical use of GIT in different application fields through documented best practices.

• Webcastle enables description of case studies, organisations, persons and documents related to the case studies and deposition, maintenance and distribution of such information.

• WebCastle offers searching engine for all types of registered objects and retrieving information, link to original sources and related subjects.

GIS-policy in EU

Towards A European GI Strategy

GIS-policy in EU

INfrastructure for SPatial InfoRmation in Europehttp://inspire.jrc.it/

eeContentContentEuropean Digital ContentEuropean Digital Contenton the on the Global NetworksGlobal Networks

The eContent programme

Improving access for all to high-quality Improving access for all to high-quality digital content on the global networks digital content on the global networks

In a multiplicity of languagesIn a multiplicity of languages

Complementary to research (6th Framework programme/IST)

eEurope 2002 Action Plan· A cheaper, faster, secure Internet· Investing in people and skills· Stimulate the use of the Internet

eContent political background

eEurope 2005 Action Plan· Stimulating services, applications and content · Addressing underlying broadband infrastructure

FP6: Thematic priorities

• Life Sciences, genomics, biotechnology for health

• Information society technologies

• Nanotechnologies, new production processes

• Aeronautics and space

• Food quality and safety

• Sustainable development, global change and ecosystems

• Citizens and governance in a knowledge based society

Projects, products and activities

‘European mapping’ - Reference data for Europe’s SDI

Geodetic system

Topographic layer

Administrative units

Roads & other transport networks

River networks

Cadastre

Addresses

Geog. Names

Orthoimagery

Height

EuroSpec

• Objectives: – Develop common specifications– Build the “natural” link between national and

european data models• Scope: all scales, quality assurance, international

standards, processes (procedures)• Umbrella for EuroGeographics activities

EuroGlobalMap

• Digital topographic dataset that covers Europe at the scale 1:1 Million.

• Seamless and harmonised data. and is

• Produced in cooperation with the National Mapping and Cadastral Agencies of Europe, using official national databases.

• 36 countries have agreed to contribute to the dataset.

• The project started on July 1. 2002 and the duration is 21 months.

EuroRegionalMap

• Multi-functional reference topographic dataset at a reference scale of 1:250 000

• Cover seven European countries and will be developed to map the entire European region.

• EuroRegionalMap dataset contain 8 different thematic layers:

Administrative boundaries, Hydrography, Transport, Settlements, Vegetation, Elevation, Named locations, Miscellaneous objects

6 National Mapping agencies

INSPIRE and PSI: Fully complementary!

• Emerging from obstacles identified by broad range of users

• Focus on specific public-sector GI content

• Requirements for inter-operability

• Data policy focuses on data sharing between public bodies

• No provision on pricing

• Emerging from obstacles identified by industry

• Adresses all public sector information

• No requirements for inter-operability

• Data policy focuses on commercial exploitation

• Provision on pricing

INSPIRE PSI

Current status and future steps

• Most of the preparatory work has been done

• Initially foreseen for adoption of proposal by Commission in October 2003

• Lead Commission services are still considering their position

• Future steps and timing remain to be decided

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GI-policy in EU

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Documents

eu slide

bonn slide

interoperable slide

quality information

data sources

reference data

data exchange

use of spatial information