ESDIN – Progress David Overton Cadastre and Land Registry Network 28 th May 2010

To Cover Eurogeographics Tools that make INSPIRE work Our partners Why ESDIN ESDIN Challenges The Future Adopting ExM Stay in Contact/ Get involved!

Page 3 The role of the National Mapping & Cadastre Agencies and EuroGeographics Our vision is to achieve ‘interoperability’ of our Members’ national land and geographic information assets in order to provide Europe with an information asset that will support its goal to become the most competitive and sustainable economy in the world

Page 4 Our Members and Head Office Association under French law 53 members from 43 countries, Distributed HO with an office in Brussels Staff of 8-10 people Projects run by our members

The tools that will make INSPIRE work An overview of ESDIN

EU needs for seamless pan-European reference data and services Directive 2007/60/EC on the assessment and management of flood risks entered into force on 26 November 2007 Directive 2007/2/EC establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) entered into force on the 15th May 2007 GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) is a European initiative for the implementation of information services dealing with environment and security Communication from the Commission on Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS) 1 st February 2008

ESDIN is A European Spatial Data Infrastructure with a best practice network Dedicated to maximising the use Co-Funded by the eContentplus programme of the EU Meet the demands of the INSPIRE legislation 2/3 through 30 month project

20 Project partners: EuroGeographics (FR) Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (DE) IGN Belgium (BE) IGN France (FR) Statens kartverk (NO) The Finnish Geodetic Institute (FI ) Lantmäteriet (SE) Kort & Matrikelstyrelsen (DK) National Land Survey of Finland (FI) Interactive Instruments (DE) Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen (AT) Technische Universität Berlin (DE) Geodan Software Development & Technology (NL) 1Spatial (UK) EDINA, University Edinburgh (UK) National Agency for Cadastre and Real Estate Publicity (RO) National Technical University of Athens (GR) Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing (HU) Aalto University School of Science and Technology (FI) Kadaster (NL)

9 NORTH SEA ATLANTIC OCEAN MEDITERRANEAN SEA Denmark Finland Poland France Germany Spain Portugal Greece Italy Turkey Switzer- land Austria Czech Republic Estonia Latvia Lithuania Belarus Ukraine Romania Hungary Slovakia Moldova Bulgaria Russia Ireland Great Britain Monte- negro Serbia Slovenia Croatia Bosnia- Herze- govina Mace- donia Albania Norway Nether- lands Belgium Luxembourg Malta

10 NORTH SEA ATLANTIC OCEAN MEDITERRANEAN SEA Denmark Finland Poland France Germany Spain Portugal Greece Italy Turkey Switzer- land Austria Czech Republic Estonia Latvia Lithuania Belarus Ukraine Romania Hungary Slovakia Moldova Bulgaria Russia Ireland Great Britain Monte- negro Serbia Slovenia Croatia Bosnia- Herze- govina Mace- donia Albania Norway Nether- lands Belgium Luxembourg Malta

ESDIN?...because... Trends in Parallel markets Power of Geographic Information Legislation

ESDIN Challenges ESDI from NSDI Aggregation Sources Resolutions Themes Via services

Changing a Business Model Traditional P&L is for traditional use New use is not accounted for User Insights A proposition perspective Define a data policy Define a policy for Geo Rights Management

Migrate existing pan-European medium/small scale products to ExM EuroGlobalMap EuroRegionalMap EuroBoundaryMap ExM Data Specification INSPIRE Data Specs INSPIRE Data Specifications as framework. Note overlap

ExM – Data specification based upon data from large scale databases Dataset small scale Corresponding multilingual feature, attribute and attribute value catalogue Inspire Data Specification ExM Data specification (Large scale) Dataset NMCA N Large scale Including UML and GML schema Other requirements Dataset NMCA A Large scale Dataset medium scale

Candidate themes Main themes Shape change Analyses of the matching tables

Analysis of the matching tables Mandatory INSPIRE: Mandatory ExM Feature type from NMCA: in ExM Attribute in NMCA: in ExM

ExM Cadastral parcels (Large scale)

Wp 7 ExM – Data specification based upon data from large scale databases Dataset small scale Corresponding multilingual feature, attribute and attribute value catalogue Inspire Data Specification ExM Data specification (Large scale) Dataset NMCA N Large scale D7.2 Implementation version of the ExM Data Specification (M18) Our proposal: Revised version of deliverable D7.1 based upon the ExM UML model submitted internally in the end of January. A data specification according to the jointly agreed template with WP 6, as much complete as possible (possible, we are for example not able to complete the work on quality requirements. A FCD dependent on the tools made available Including UML and GML schema Consider information flow from ‘large scale’ to medium scale to ensure that small/ medium scale can be generalised from large scale data 7.2 Other requirements Dataset NMCA A Large scale Dataset medium scale Deliverables

Extend and amend “ExM” to incorporate large scale data: Multiple European NMCAs large scale products ExM Data Specification INSPIRE Data Specs Transformation and generalisation services required

Metadata and Quality Guidelines guidance for discovery and evaluation a standards-based data quality model comparison between countries data providers Web-based service semi- automatic evaluation Quality Guidelines Quality Guidelines Quality model Quality model Evaluator Service Evaluator Service What is needed? How to evaluate? How to measure? What is acceptable?

NMCA Data maintenance and business processes Exploit INSPIRE challenge to improve geospatial maintenance at the European level 1.Methodologies for edge-matching 2.Stable Unique Identifiers 3.Generalisation 4.Means of deploying Change only Update for interested users

ExM Transformation specifications ExMExM INSPIRE Large scale Medium scale Small scale Large scale Medium scale Small scale Virtual INSPIRE compliant ExM Products NMCA 1 Large scale Medium scale Small scale NMCA N Multiple European NMCAs On the fly transformations Develop a reusable framework for specifying transformation rules Also ExM medium to ExM Small, i.e. generalisation

Interoperability Services, Goals 1. Develop Best Practices for building INSPIRE-compliant content access services - View & Download … focusing on functionalities for - Content transformations: CRS, Schema, Edge-matching, Generalisation - Geo Rights Management 2. Build services to provide access, in INSPIRE-compliant form, to Vector, Raster, Topographic,Cadastral data, large or small scale, harmonised or single country source.

Legend Real dataset Product Virtual dataset Processes – not implemented in ESDIN but guidelines for them are within ESDIN Processes – inside scope of ESDIN Dataset – out of scope of ESDIN Service – mainly download Service – download of specific product e.g. realized as stored query GeoRM Layers Service layer - GeoRM EBM ERM Download Services – illustrates a generic download service plus additional profiles for specific products, e.g. as stored queries Dataflow/workflow – optional or possible Dataflow/workflow

EBM NMCA 1 GeoRM Layers Applications and Geoportals NMCA Master data NMCA Master data ExM Large ExM Small Trans- formation Download Transformation Quality evaluation Conformance testing Edge- matching Edge- matching Conformance testing Edge- matching Edge- matching Generalization Conformanc e testing Generalization NMCA Master data NMCA Master data ExM Large ExM Small Trans- formation Quality evaluation Conformance testing Generalization NMCA 2 GeoRM Layers ERM EBM EGM ERM Download EGM Download EBM ERM Download EGM Download Euro- Geographics Download EBM ERM< Download EGM Download Generalization ExM Medium ExM Small ExM Large GeoRM Layers Datasets downloaded for user applications EBM, ERM and EGM are just specific download services from respective ExMs EG services are ’cascading’ to NMCA services EG GeoRM is a ’broker’ for NMCA GeoRM This NMCA derives both ExM Large and ExM Medium from its Master data This NMCA derives ExM Large from its Master data, and generalize ExM Medium from ExM Large Edge-matching does not necessarily need to be performed twice, generalization of edge-matching should still be edgematched ExM Meta data ExM Meta data ExM Medium ExM Medium Addi- tional data Conformance testing EBM ERM EGM

Test Environment Test both the approach taken in the project, specifications and implementations, including: –download and view services –transformation services –generalisation –edge-matching –geoRM and access control –Change only Update

The future A break with tradition Fewer barriers to use Extending ESDIN community Agile approaches Flexible license conditions Next project

Adopting the ExM specification Assures INSPIRE compliance Provides Interoperable products AND services Makes INSPIRE useful.

In Conclusion ESDIN Challenges the Status Quo Draws on vital experience Makes INSPIRE possible and desirable Can be experienced first in new services (like EuroGeoNames) Needs to support a number of business models Will unlock the potential of PSI Location Information

Specific Events Planning –National Mapping and Cadastral Seminar (End Sept 2010) –Webinar for Data Management (Early September) –Business Model Workshop (Early September)

Communications: All Channels are open! See us at the Krakow INSPIRE conference 2010 Read about us in June’s GeoConnexion magazine Engage with us via the Eurogeoforum Keep up to date via

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