1. EuroGeographics Update
Nick Land, Executive Director

2. The Association Growing! 46 organisations from 41 countries
Integration with cadastre
Roles –best practice, lobbying, product development & sales
5 Head Office staff
President – Dietmar Grünreich, BKG Germany

3. Why is Europe important?

4. Increasing need for pan-European GI
European Directives, Communications, programmes
At least 25 requiring GI
European GI developments
Galileo, GMES (both operational in 2008)
Funding programmes
eContentplus – focus on GI
FP6

5. Legislative developments
PSI directive
Focus on ‘value added’ use
Compliance by MS, 1st July 2005
INSPIRE – proposed directive
Focus on public sector use
Entry into force in 2007?
Specifications for reference data in 2009?
Metadata service available in 2010?

6. SABE customers Appreciate its completeness, quality and up-to-dateness
Alpine Convention
CEPS/INSTEAD
ISTAR
Geodata

7. The most popular countries in SABE (1st half of 2004)

8. EuroGeographics strategy

9. Strategic goals Achieve interoperability of NMCA information
Specifications (set the ‘de facto’ standards)
Pricing and licensing framework (to improve access to information)
Service infrastructure (from ‘centralised’ to ‘distributed’)
Partnerships (network)
Sustainable financial model

10. Key steps
Improve access to existing national reference information (short term)
Metadata, Pricing & Licensing, Coordinate Reference Service
Provide small scales, ‘harmonised’, pan-European products (short/medium term)
SABE, EuroGlobalMap, EuroRegionalMap
Develop larger scales, ‘interoperable’, pan-European products/services (longer term)
Theme by theme

11. Reference information (INSPIRE) Referencing and coordinate systems
Administrative units
Transport
Hydrography
Elevation
Cadastral parcels
Ortho-imagery
Protected sites (out of scope)
Land cover (out of scope)
Referencing and coordinate systems
Coordinate reference systems
CRS
Geographical grid systems
Geographical Names
Addresses
Small scale : ERM & EGM
SABE
EuroBoundaries
EuroRoadS
RISE
<<< EuroSpec >>>
EULIS
Implementation
CRS
GISS
EuroGeoNames

12. EuroSpec – a programme of interdependent projects
EuroRoadS
RISE
EuroGeoNames
Requirements
Specifications
Service Architecture
Prototype
Business case
Implementation plan
Expert Groups
Specifications
Service Architecture
Geodesy
Legal & Commercial
Quality
Cadastre
INSPIRE directive & drafting groups

13. Improving access to reference information
EuroMapFinder
On-line ordering
Pricing & Licensing
Partner network

14. High level project plan
De-centralised service
(extended to more
NMCAs)
Service
On-line ordering
Off-line delivery
On-line ordering
Electronic download
Metadata, CRS
Centralised service
De-centralised service
(for some NMCAs)
Content
SABE2001 v1.1
EGM v1.1
ERM (7)
EGM v2
SABE updates
ERM 25+
Roads
(prototype)
Water
Elevation
(prototype)
Jan
2005
Jan
2006
Jan
2007
Jan
2008
Today

15. Conclusions Metadata Data specifications Network services Data policy
People & organisations