1. Interactive Map of Waste Treatment Sites
Meeting of the Working Party
“Geographical Information Systems for Statistics”
Luxembourg, March 16-17, 2006
Inge Nael Ivari Rannama
Statistical Office of Estonia Statistical Office of Estonia

2. The aim and legal basis data
The aim of the map application Waste is to make available to the user the data of the “Statistical Inventory of Landfills and Waste Treatment Sites” conducted in 2003 on the basis of interactive map application
Regulation (EC) No 2150/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2002 on waste statistics serves as a legal basis for the “Statistical Inventory of Landfills and Waste Treatment Sites”
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3. The data and languages
Map application provides general data of waste treatment sites by point objects as well as by administrative division
The map application Waste connects the attribute data of waste treatment sites with their location on the map
General statistics of waste treatment sites on Estonia as a whole, by counties and local government units have been added
Map application is in Estonian and in English
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4. The data types Map application contains the following data:
·   locations of waste treatment sites as point objects together with attribute information including the name of object, administrative origin, type, kind, activity and comments collected in the course of ”Statistical Inventory of Landfills and Waste Treatment Sites” in 2003
·  borderlines of Estonian administrative and settlement division, as at
·  general statistics of waste treatment sites on Estonia as a whole, by counties and local government units
·    legal acts related to waste treatment
·    background maps (basic map, base map) and ortophotos
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5. The types and classes of point objects
Two types of waste treatment sites (573):
type 1 - landfills (430)
Classes of landfills (3)
The indicator of activity of waste treatment sites:
operating landfills (56)
closed landfills (374)
type 2 – animal waste burial sites (143)
operating (15)
closed (128)
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6. The structure of map application
The map layers
territorial division (Estonia, counties, local municipalities, settlements, background – Estonian Base Map, Estonian Basic Map, ortophotos (1:10 000; 1:2 000)
objects by types and classes
objects by activity
The active information layers according to the map layers
alphanumeric information of objects
Activities
search by location of objects, overview window
printing options
Metadata
legal acts
information of background maps
User guide
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7. Access to the map application (English version)
Map application can be opened as follows:
 on the web site of the Statistical Office under the sub-heading “Maps” of the heading “Statistics” through the link Interactive Map of Waste Treatment Sites
 on the web site of the Estonian Land Board under the heading “Web Map Server” through the link Open Interactive Map of Waste Treatment Sites
 on the web site of the Estonian Environment Information Centre:
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8. Initial view of map application
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9. Waste treatment sites – operating landfills
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10. Waste treatment sites – closed landfills
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11. Animal waste burial sites – operating and closed
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12. Administrative and waste treatment sites statistics Local governments – attribute information window
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13. Background map – Estonian Base Map Activities – overview window
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14. Background map – ortophoto (1:10 000) Operating landfills - attribute information window
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15. Background map – Estonian Basic Map Activities – search window
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16. Intermediate result window of search Search by name of county
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17. Search result by name of county Selected object is Kohtla-Järve (ash field)
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18. Info – menu of metadata
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19. The future developments of application
Interactive map application
manager of map application - Estonian Environment Information Centre
supplement of map application with updated data
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20. Thank you for Your attention !
Please visit our home page - Maps:
Maps
Interactive map of waste treatment sites
International GIS Day – November 16, 2005
Fields of Statistics
Main indicators of the Regional Development Strategy of Estonia
The results of the Agricultural Censuses
The results of the Population Censuses
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