1. EuroGeographics activities and projects
Saulius Urbanas
EuroGeographics Product Manager

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

3. Legal & commercial @ NLS
Membership
40 members, 29 active
Organisation:
Management Board,
Projects,
Expert Groups,
Head Office
BKG
NLS
IGN
NLS
Legal & NLS ST
NLS
Head IGN

4. 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

5. 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

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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. Products: EuroGlobalMap

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

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

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

14. 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

15. Vision Users Pricing & Licensing EuroSpec Partnership Metadata
Technology

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

17. 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

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

19. 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

20. 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

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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

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

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

27. 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

28. Thank you for the attention!