EuroGeographics activities and projects Saulius Urbanas EuroGeographics Product Manager

Content Where we are today Future strategy Partnership Organisation Projects Future strategy Partnership

Legal & commercial @ NLS Membership 40 members, 29 active Organisation: Management Board, Projects, Expert Groups, Head Office SABE @ BKG EGM @ NLS ERM @ IGN EuroSpec @ NLS Legal & commercial @ NLS Geodesy @ ST Quality @ NLS Head Office @ IGN

Outcome from General Assembly President and Management Board Joakim Ollen (Landmateriet, Sweden) was elected as the new President Management Board members: Richard Kirwan (Ireland), Dietmar Grünreich (Germany), Bertrand Lévy (France), Steve Erskine (Great Britain), Zeljko Bacic (Croatia) and Kalev Kangur (Estonia) INSPIRE – key focus Cadastre – extend remit

Role of EuroGeographics Coordinate & facilitate the creation of and access to reference data for Europe Focus on: Development of technical specifications for metadata & reference data Implementation of the specifications Pricing & licensing policies Procedures & Processes Partnerships Focal point for the EC (and others) - the ‘European Gateway’ to Europe’s National Mapping Agencies

Products: SABE 10 years on the market Main versions: 1991, 1995, 1997 New coming updates: SABE2001 / Census – December 2002 SABE2001 + SIRE codes – autumn 2003 Harmonisation with other EG products - e.g. EuroGlobalMap and EuroRegionalMap http://www.eurogeographics.org/Projects/SABE

Coverage: SABE2001 / Census production New countries in the first release (Dec 02): Malta, Moldova, Romania (?), Turkey (?), Ukraine Expected: Bulgaria, Albania Russia Belarus Armenia Light green: No information (IT and PL), status 97 Meanwhile Poland delivered data, but may be too late there are a few countries like Ireland or Estonia which informed about no change against 1997, those are not discriminated mid green and slightly hatched: incomplete or not according spec, resp. (Ii.e. Romania and Turkey) supposed to be included in 2nd release Red contours: new SABE countries (i.e Moldavia, Malta, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine Grey countries: no contact until now Yellow countries should be encouraged to provide data; they are candidates for spring 2003 release

Products: EuroGlobalMap Global (500k-1M) scale covering 36 countries Network approach to creation through regional coordinators Target for delivery: EU+ – Spring 2003 Europe – Autumn 2003 http://www.eurogeographics.org/egm

Products: EuroGlobalMap Content: Administrative boundaries, Hydrography Transport Settlements Elevation Geographical names EGM is the European contribution to GlobalMapping Licensing will be applicable, but price should meet users ability to pay It was already recognised by rivers’ commissions as useful dataset for reporting according to Water Framework Directive

Products: EuroGlobalMap

Products: EuroRegionalMap Regional/national scale (1:250k) covering 7 countries Target for delivery – October 2003 Prototype for whole Europe (extension is considered) http://www.eurogeographics.org/erm

Content Where we are today Future strategy Partnership Organisation Projects Future strategy Partnership

Content Where we are today Future strategy Partnership Organisation Projects Future strategy Partnership

Lessons learnt Time & Cost Clear demand or ‘act of faith’ Specifications Terms & conditions Technology Maintenance Clear demand or ‘act of faith’ Champions and goodwill Appropriate organisational framework Long term commitment & funding More flexible approach based upon a shared vision

Vision Users Pricing & Licensing EuroSpec Partnership Metadata Technology

Vision Achieve interoperability of European mapping (and other GI) data within 10 years

Vision (for the user) Easy to identify what data are available Confident that the data: conforms to known specifications and meets defined quality levels is maintained at the most appropriate level The terms & conditions under which the data can be used are clear and do not impede its use Tools available to combine data seamlessly

Twin tracks Small scales pan-European data ‘centralised’ model Medium & large scales cross border data ‘decentralised’, framework model Convergence

Why this vision? Increasing needs for cross border GI Technology & ‘open’ standards Complements national (and global) SDIs Complements the role of the NMAs at the national level Provides a framework for sharing best practice and developing partnerships

Action plan - principles Customer and business focused “find the main drivers” Step by step think big, start small (“incremental benefit”) “good solution today, is better than a perfect solution tomorrow” Short term actions (next 2 years) improve access to existing data create initial pan-European reference data develop specifications, procedures & policies to support decentralised (distributed) vision Partnership

Projects: New Metadata Replacement / update of GDDD: Discovery level service - early 2003 Comprehensive metadata system – end 2003: ISO 19115 Decentralised approach Multilingual gateway

Projects: EuroSpec Data Specifications Common data catalogue Harmonised data model Data interoperability and quality Mapping EuroSpec with national DB Conversion rules Gaps and weaknesses in existing DBs Implementation guidelines Transformation mechanisms Prototypes and testbeds

Projects: Pricing & Licensing Objective: to develop the terms & conditions under which the data can be used are clear and do not impede its use Deliverables: Licensing guidelines License templates Legal terminology Pricing guidelines Market pricing Pricing levels Distribution of revenue Time-scale: June 2002 – March 2003

Work Plan Distributed service Discovery level service SABE/SIRE Match SABE2001 Census ERM (7) Member States EGM -Europe Position papers Pricing / licensing guidelines Programme management guidelines ERDIN

Content Where we are today Future strategy Partnership Organisation Projects Future strategy Partnership

Content Where we are today Future strategy Partnership Organisation Projects Future strategy Partnership

Eurostat – EuroGeographics Expertise Professional experts (advisors) Marketing Partners: Eurostat is SABE major customer Eurostat is one of SABE VAR Joint activity developing European data (e.g. SIRE-SABE product, Structural Funds product) Strategic partnership: European projects/activities related to GI INSPIRE

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