EuroGlobalMap – a chance to fulfil WFD and INSPIRE requirements TG 3 WFD – GIS needs EuroGlobalMap – a chance to fulfil WFD and INSPIRE requirements Heinz Bennat Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Bennat@ifag.de

WFD and E-ESDI (1) The INSPIRE initiative consists of the preparation of a framework legislative act aimed at making available relevant, harmonised and quality geographic information for the purpose of formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Community environmental policy-making along the lines of the following six general principles:  

WFD and E-ESDI (2) 1 Data should be collected once and maintained at a level where this can be done most efficiently   2 It should be possible to combine spatial information from different sources across Europe in a seamless way, and to share it between many users and applications 3 It should be possible for information collected at one level to be shared with other levels, e.g. detailed data for detailed investigations and general information for strategic purposes

WFD and E-ESDI (3) 4 Geographic information needed for good governance at all levels should be readily available under conditions that do not constrain its extensive use   5 It should be simple to discover which geographic information is available, how it fits the needs of a particular use, and under what conditions it can be acquired and used 6 Geographic data should become easy to understand and interpret, i.e. user-friendly

WFD and E-ESDI (4) Although initially focusing on environmental policy needs, the INSPIRE initiative is cross-sectoral and will be gradually extended as other interested Commission services participate. (From: 1st E-ESDI Expert Group Meeting 18 Sept. 2001, Draft report) New Name of E-ESDI: INSPIRE = INfrastructure for SPatial InfoRmation in Europe

Consequences for WFD-GIS (1) The need to ensure coherence between the implementation of the WFD and other sectoral and structural policies (Common Strategy on the Implementation of the Water Framework Directive 2 May 2001, 2.3) A final European GIS will most probably be based on a combination of compatible national systems and the proposed European system, which may be shared between Member States, the Commission and the European Environment Agency. (TG 7 - Data Standards for Water Framework Directive – Draft Version 1.1)

Consequences for WFD-GIS (2) No single solution for the water sector but a multidisciplinary approach is needed Long term maintenance of WFD-GIS by cooperation with national data providers

EuroGlobalMap 1:1 million Project coordinator : J Ratia Project manager : Heli Ursin (NLS-Helsinki-Finland) heli.ursin@nls.fi

EuroGlobalMap (500k-1M) Background The EGM Project sub-regional initiatives : MapBSR Global Map, a contribution to agenda 21 The EGM Project European coverage at scale 500 k – 1M feasibility study 1999~2000 EuroGeographics Members committed project setting-up 2000~2001 eContent proposal (1st rejected, 2nd not yet decided) EuroGeographics still proceeding with EGM

EuroGlobalMap Main milestones - so far confirmation of the participating NMAs (35) NMAs harmonise own data to EGM specs set up of the Technical Committee - EuroGlobalMap specifications + technical guide + sample dataset confirmation of the Regional Co-ordinators Guidelines to Regional Co-ordinators Regional meetings started - Start of data processing end of 2001 (admin. boundaries, hydrography )

Participation in EGM (August 2001) Participants No info Not members of EuroGeographics

Alternative - EuroRegionalMap regional/national scale (100k~250k) Project coordinator : J Théatre Project manager : N Delattre (IGN-Bruxelles-Belgium) nde@ngi.be

EuroRegionalMap background the ERM project VMap level 1 the PETIT Project (INFO2000) the ERM project a longer term answer to the GISCO (EC) needs still in demonstration/stimulation phase an initial core of 6 countries (started 1/01/01 on own budget) eContent funded project started 1/01/02

ERM “core” Ireland Northern Ireland Denmark Belgium Germany France

ERM issues Europe-40 coverage more countries already interested to join additional funding to be secured strong European Commission signal

General characteristics EGM ERM Resolution 1: 1 000 000 1: 250 000 Related Datasets MapBSR, Global Map Vmap Level1 Data Catalogue Standard DIGEST FACC (as GlobalMap) DIGEST FACC (as VMap & PETIT) Theoretical Data Model ARC / INFO adapted close to DIGEST VPF Implementation of Data Model ARC / INFO Platform independent Geodetic Datum (H,V) WGS 84, MSL Coordinate System Geographic, Decimal Degrees