1. Inspire services from the EuroGeographics point of view Antti Jakobsson Programme manager

2. Page 2 Our Members Albania, Armenia, Austria Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic Denmark, Estonia, Finland France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece Hungary, Iceland Ireland, Italy, Kosovo Latvia, Lithuania Luxembourg, FYR of Macedonia Malta, Moldova, Montenegro Northern Ireland, Norway Poland, Portugal Romania Russia, Serbia & Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland The Netherlands, Turkey, Ukraine

3. Page 3 The role of the National Mapping & Cadastre Agencies From data providers to facilitators of data integration & access within an SDI Definitive, reliable & high quality ‘reference’ data that underpins the SDI Building effective partnerships to make the European SDI a reality!

4. Page 4 INSPIRE – The legal framework for building the ESDI Pragmatic solution supported by the NMCAs Facilitate the sharing and maintenance of high quality GI Accommodate diverse business models Consistent with PSI directive

5. Page 5 GMES European capacity for provision and use of operational information for “Global Monitoring for Environment and Security” Europe’s contribution to the Global Earth Observation System of Systems Aim to launch 3 operational Fast Track Services during 2008: Land, Emergency and Marine GMES must leverage and complement existing infrastructure, experience and investment

6. Page 6 ……………………… BIG ambition To achieve ‘interoperability’ of the Members’ national land and geographic information assets …………. ……….. to provide Europe with an information asset that will enable it to become the most competitive and sustainable economy in the world.

7. Page 7 Mission To further the development of the European Spatial Data Infrastructure through collaboration in the area of geographical information, including topographic, cadastre and land information

8. Page 8 Information & Data Specification Distributed Services Architecture Quality Geodesy Business Interoperability Cadastre & Land registry EuroGeographics Expert Groups

9. Page 9 Projects EuroRoadS EuroRoadS Forum EuroGeoNames a 30 month eContent+ project Developing a distributed multi-lingual geographical names data network for Europe

10. Page 10 RISE – Reference Information Specification for Europe Guidelines & Methodology for developing specifications Focus on Water and elevation data themes EuroBoundaries developed & proved a data model when populated capable of supporting edge matching identifying the need for definitive & accurate harmonised data for the national boundaries of European countries.

11. Page 11 EuroBoundaryMap - EBM Covering 38 countries Available in 2 Scales 1:100,000 and 1:1 million Administrative Boundaries + NUTS classification Updated annually Metadata compliant with ISO19115 ETRS89 Already available for use by EC bodies

12. Page 12 EuroGlobalMap - EGM Covering 35 countries Digital Topographic dataset Available in scale 1:1 mill Consistent specification with EuroRegionalMap Already available for use by EC bodies

13. Page 13 EuroRegionalMap - ERM Covering 32 countries Digital Topographic dataset Available in scale 1:250,000 Already available for use by EC bodies

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15. Page 15 Specifications Resolution: 2 arc seconds (approx 60 m) Vertical accuracy: 8 to 10 m Scale: Approximately 1: 100 000 Co-ordinate system: horizontal – ETRS89 vertical – EVRS

16. Page 16 Structure Product can be represented as raster triangular irregular network (TIN) Expect to ship Q1 2008

17. Page 17 EuroMapFinder A Metadata service of Member & EuroGeographics products Discovery service - searching for geographic products in Europe Metadata administration - maintain the metadata information of the products ISO compliant; multi-lingual Launched at start of 2006

18. Page 18 From present situation…

19. Page 19 To Service Infrastructure

20. Page 20 How- through pilot projects eContentplus –ESDIN project Harmonised data – improved maintenance and efficient production Interoperability – services to ‘connect’ data sets Coordinate transformation Edge-matching Portrayal Quality evaluation and reporting on-line Licensing & Rights management

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22. Page 22 EuroGeographics Mission Exchange of best practice Engagement Interoperable Infrastructure & products EuroGeographics: Underpinning the ESDI

23. Page 23 Harmonised Geographic Information EuroGlobalMap EuroRegionalMap EuroBoundaryMap ‘Reference’ data from Europe’s National Mapping and Cadastral Agencies

24. Page 24 Supporting GMES Integrating “in situ” data Emergency – NMCAs can provide current data for accurate pre-disaster situation maps. Land – NMCA data can be used to create or validate (land cover and land use) products.

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