1. INSPIRE and EuroGeographics
Antti Jakobsson, programme manager

2. 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

3. Our Members and HO Association under French law
53 members from 43 countries, soon 55 members
Distributed HO with an office in Brussels 1st May 2010
Staff of people
Projects run by our members

4. Content of the presentation
Reference data and user needs
Availability of Reference data in Europe
New proposal for data policy
ESDIN, our main project for implementing INSPIRE directive
ExM specifications
Quality Evaluation
Edge-matching
Transformation
UIDs
EuroGeoNames
StateBoundaries of Europe and EuroXBoundaryService proposal
Conclusions

5. Reference data and services are part of the solution!
private industry
Cartographic industry
Web companies
GIS industry
Service
Integration
User
Application
Additional data
Meeting the
user requirement
Reference data
Reference data
services
USERS
NMCAs
Other governmental
agencies

6. Availability of urban/county view (1: :25 000) Topographic Data (Hydro,transport) VECTOR/RASTER from NMCAs by )
1) Availability of NMCA data is based on EG questionnaire 2009, results are prelimenary
Not available
Available VECTOR
Partly vector
RASTER 6
Malta

7. Availability of regional view (1: :50 000) Topographic Data (Hydro, transport) VECTOR/RASTER from NMCAs 1)
1) Availability of NMCA data is based on EG questionnaire 2009, results are prelimenary
Not available
Available VECTOR
Partly vector
RASTER 7
Malta

8. Availability of regional view (1: ) EBM Administrative Boundaries/units from EuroGeographics 1)
1) Availability of NMCA data is based on EG questionnaire 2009, results are prelimenary
Not available
Available VECTOR 8
Malta

9. 30 m will be available if major customers indicate their willingness
Availability of Digital TerrainModel (60 m, and possible 30 m resolution) from EuroGeographics (1: :50 000)
1) Availability of NMCA data is based on EG questionnaire 2009, results are prelimenary
Not available
Available 60m
Available also 30 m 1)
Also better data available from NMCAs 1)
30 m will be
available if
major customers
indicate their
willingness
2011 9
Malta

10. Availability of regional view from EuroGeographics (1:250 000) ERM (hydro, transport)
Not available
Available VECTOR
Partly vector
RASTER
Coming 10
Malta

11. Availability of global/continent view from EuroGeographics (1:1:000 000) EGM (hydro, transport)
Not available
Available VECTOR
Partly vector
RASTER
Coming 2010 11
Malta

12. How reference data from EG/NMCAs helps users
Consistency between themes are handled at MS level (hydro,transportation) in topographic databases. Consistency on admin. Boundaries will be handled by a multiple presentation database.
Orthophotos/DEMs are made in the same process as well as using these for reference data set production.
The concept of using a master database and making generalized views at regional/ continent level quarantees that when there is a change it will be transformed to all views (over period of updating cycle)
Introduction of accreditation to the data provision will quarantee that data specification is followed as well as introduction of quality evaluation procedures and conformance testing.
In client database connection to the Reference feature UIDs should be maintained which makes possible of receiving updates

13. Proposed new data policy
Objectives
Principles
a) maximising the use and sharing of geodetic, topographic, cadastral and other information about features on, above or below the earth’s surface;
b) providing full and open access to information1 aggregated at European Level from NMCAs data and services, subject to any relevant security restrictions;
c) strengthening environmental, security and other location related policies and services to improve the life of citizens and stimulate markets in Europe, in particular the downstream sector, with a view to enabling growth and job creation;
d) contributing to the sustainability of relevant EC policies and services requiring geo-spatial reference data and information, in the interest of effective governance;
e) supporting the European academic and research communities.
Anybody can access3 all EuroGeographics data; in particular, public, commercial and scientific users and European or non-European users
Viewing EuroGeographics data is free of charge
EuroGeographics data will be made available to the users via direct supply and increasingly web services4. Online access is subject to a user registration process and to the acceptation of generic terms and conditions;
Additional access modes and the use5 of EuroGeographics data will be tailored to specific user needs,and therefore subject to tailored conditions6
1 including free at the point of use data and services where their use has been paid for by others than the end user. In compliance with the INSPIRE Directive, prior agreements should be used to prevent practical obstacles to the sharing of EuroGeographics data occurring at the point of use.
3 access is, view or license
4 on a best endeavours basis, taking into consideration technical and financial constraints.
5 use shall include on any computer system whether internal or external to the user and is subject to a licence from EuroGeographics.
6 In compliance with the INSPIRE Directive, where charges are made, these shall be kept to the minimum required to ensure the necessary quality and supply of EuroGeographics data together with a reasonable return on investment, while respecting the self-financing requirements of public authorities supplying EuroGeographics data, where applicable.

14. INSPIRE – The legal framework for building the ESDI
Our members will be participating to Annex II-III specification work
Special WG Cadastre INSPIRED
ESDIN project will be helping to implement INSPIRE in Annex I- ExM specs
Early testing organized last year
ExM specification will be in a key role for the implementation bringing aspects how to deal with various resolutions.
Working on several guidelines for INSPIRE
Quality
Evaluation metadata
Updating
Georights management

15. ESDIN

16. ESDIN project info (www.esdin.eu)
Project partially funded by eContentplus programme
Started in September 2008 and will run for 30 months until March 2011
Coordinated by EuroGeographics with 20 project partners
Lantmäteriet
The Finnish Geodetic Institute
Statens kartverk
Kort & Matrikelstyrelsen
Helsinki University of Technology
National Land Survey of Finland
IGN Belgium
Kadaster
EDINA, University Edinburgh
Geodan Software Development &
Technology
Universität Berlin
1Spatial
Bundesamt für Kartographie
und Geodäsie
Interactive Instruments
EuroGeographics
Bundesamt für Eich- und
Vermessungswesen
IGN France
Institute of Geodesy, Cartography
and Remote Sensing
National Agency for Cadastre and
Real Estate Publicity Romania
National Technical University
of Athens

17. Key Goals
Further the ambition of the European Commission to create a European Spatial Data Infrastructure (ESDI) building on the National Spatial Data Infrastructures (NSDI) in Member States.
Help member states, candidate countries and EFTA States prepare their reference data for INSPIRE related to Annex I themes in co-ordinate reference systems, administrative units, transport network, cadastral parcels,hydrography and geographical names
Improve data access to partners data by implementing and testing services based on distributed service architecture
As a results project will provide the Data Specifications (ExM) as a set of profiles of the INSPIRE Data Specifications for large, medium and small scales
Build a best practice network of all related stakeholders

18. ExM Specifications

19. ExM Specifications and Guidelines
EGM/ERM/EBM specifications migrated into framework of the INSPIRE Data Specifications – ExM Data specification (medium/small scale)
National specifications migrated into framework of the INSPIRE Data Specifications – ExM Data specification (large scale)
General Guidelines and rules completed by developed scripts and tools for Edge-matching and Map generalisation
General specifications and guidelines for sustainable maintenance at the European level for Stable Unique Identifiers, Incremental update delivery and Geo Rights Management services
Data policy and pricing guidelines
Prepare guidelines for the creation of discovery metadata and data evaluation
Develop a quality model.

20. Service Infrastructure
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21. Implementing and testing Service Infrastructure
Seamless INSPIRE- conformant access to the partners data through a distributed technical architecture
Develop transforming services including co-ordinate transformation, schema transformations to ExM specifications,
Test Geo-rights management services, edge-matching service and quality evaluation service
Recommendations for putting results into sustainable operation

22. ESDIN status and further plans
First web services (WFS) running in NMCAs
Demonstrated quality evaluation web service (WPS)
Working with key users to connect ExM to key user datasets (through key user group, EEA, Eurostat, GMES bureau, JRC)
Planning to propose ESDIN deliverables as a best practice documents/guidelines to INSPIRE and CEN TC 287
Creating programme for non ESDIN NMCAs to join the implementation
Planning a vendor/VAR event for supporting ExM spec in applications
Data policy WS and Generalization/Edge-matching WS
Webinars on various issues
Demonstration serviceplatform to be launched later this year together with EG WMS services with ERM/EGM content
Join EuroGeoForum to be informed ( and visit

23. EuroGeoNAMES

24. EGN project is our pioneer first Web Service to be gradually launched in 2010-2012
It provides an infrastructure to official geographical names in Europe (expected coverage countries, about 3 mill. names)
EGN is a first panEuropean gazetteer web service with official geographic names.
It is the first web gazetteer service that is INSPIRE compliant.
It is the first EuroGeographics web service testing our service infrastructure
It is also the first service that offers free viewing to our data (search limited to 50 names per day)
Users can connect easily your own web application to the service
Best service running now and several organizations are running tests

25. Coverage end 2010

26. State BounDaries of Europe

27. State Boundaries of Europe
Precise geometric description of the boundary points and lines based on agreed ETRS89 coordinates.
Support consistent edge matching features at borders in accordance with article 10.2 from INSPIRE Directive
Database co-ordinator SwissTopo
Project manager Pierrette Fraisse from Belgian Cadastre
Working of extension to Sea Borders
First coverage 8-10 countries
Considering providing a service to member states and users for edge-matching (EuroXBoundaryService)

29. Possible EG future developments in 2011-2015 (not yet approved)
All our ”production” will be based on ExM specifications from members.
Improving coverage and quality will be most important goals. Plan to introduce accrediation to our members
Working to introduce one mid-scale reference data source for regional view (1: : )
Continental view/ global view will be made using generalization procesess from mid-scale reference data source
Merging current administrative boundaries to multiscale database (treaty-country-regional-global)
Large scale data delivery will be based on ESDIN and members distributed services (this includes cadastral boundaries)
EGN component of global systems and integration of names and address services
Web services for viewing (EuroGeoInfo), and EuroGeoForum as community platform

30. Conclusions
EG/NMACS are working on bringing the INSPIRE reference data part (hydro,transport,cadastral boundaries, admin. units, geographical names, DEMs, orthophotos, land classification, buildings) available through ExM specifications to the European users 1)
This means setting conformance quality levels, transformation rules, edge-matching, services, registries, generalization processes, georights management, policy and pricing/licensing conditions -> This work should be considered European SDI work
Funding of this has to shared by MS and the Commission. How to do this best is a key question. At the moment the only possibility has been through tenders and EU research funds.
Our understanding at the moment is that we would need data delivery with agreements (like EUMETSAT or statistical agencies and EuroStat)
1) AnnexI part is developed at the moment in the ESDIN project

31. Together we are stronger
Thank you!