How to make a map in 25 years! ETeMII, workshop Reference Data Rome, 18 October 2000 ir.L.M.Murre

Content l The Dutch Topographical Base Map –Historical overview –The philosophy –The organisation –The product l Access and Dissemination –Institutional issues –Organisational issues

Historical overview l 1975 Cadastre receives governmental order l End 80’s financial problems l 1992 signing general agreement –national foundation (Joint Venture) –regional PPP’s l 1998 Strategy Plan

Joint Venture Philosophy l Working together saves money l Agreement on the content of the map l Fee for participation depends on the benefit for the type of organisation l Fee is a fixed percentage of the costs l Legal form of the PPP mostly is a Foundation

National partners: - Cadastre - KPN Telecom NJV DTBM Organisational model Regional Joint Ventures Regional Utility Comp. Umbrella organisations: - Union of Dutch municipal. - Union of Water Comp. - Union of Water boards - Union of Energy Comp. Gemeenten Municipalities Independent Municipalities Cadastre

Organisations l National Joint Venture (foundation) –members are umbrella organisations on national level an two national organisations l 11 Regional Joint Ventures –utility companies, municipalities, water boards etc. l 50 Municipalities

The product l Large scale topographical map (1:500>2000) l Reference for exchange information l Content defined by participants l Expensive and labour-intensive –Investment: more than 200 Million € –More than 25 years labour l Used by municipalities, utility companies etc. l One of the elements for the NSDI

Users Applications Utility Companies (energy, water telecom etc.) Municipalities Water boards Cadastre Others... Planning Building activities Managing of rural estate and assets (and data about the rural estates and assets)

Combination with cable- information and boundary-info

Access to digital Photographs

Road management

Access and Dissemination l Institutional Issues –Product reference guide or object catalogue, based on the Geo-information Terrain Model –No mandates for free access, participation in the joint venture is needed –Code of conduct about use (licensed) –Different prices (high) –Ownership is in hand of the RJV

Access and Dissemination (cont.) l Organisational issues –RJV’s have small offices for managing the data, updating and distribution –Most of the the data management is done by the Cadastre –No sets of metadata are available –The attitude is changing to customer- oriented

Access and Dissemination (cont.) l Organisational Issues (cont.) –The product is changing to an information- service –Plans for changing the national organisation model –Accessibility by Internet is in progress –Feasibility study started for Authentic Registration (NSDI) together with other registrations (Buildings, TOP10vector)

New organisational model Base Map Holland National Participants, like: Cadastre KPN-telecom NUON, UPC, etc. Umbrella Organisations RJV- representative NJV DTBM MB Office Base Map Holland Regional Joint Ventures

User/Viewer dataset VIEW Telfort Amsterdam

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