Spatial Data Infrastructures in Greece: State of play Spring 2005

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1 Spatial Data Infrastructures in : State of play Spring 2005 Country report on SDI elaborated in the context of a study commissioned by the EC (EUROSTAT & DGENV) in the framework of the INSPIRE initiative August 2005 SPATIAL APPLICATIONS DIVISION K.U.LEUVEN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Vital Decosterstraat 102, B-3000 LEUVEN TEL.: FAX: URL:

2 Report meta-information Title Spatial Data Infrastructures in : State of Play Spring 2004 Creator Jos Van Orshoven (SADL) and Peter Beusen (ICRI) Date Issued Subject INSPIRE State of Play Activities 1, 3 & 4 Publisher K.U.Leuven (SADL + ICRI) + Margaret Hall consultant (Hall) Description This report is summarizing the review of SDI in Contributor Jos Van Orshoven, Danny Vandenbroucke (SADL); Peter Beusen, Katleen Janssen (ICRI); Mrs. Homata (GR) Format MS Word 97/2000 Audience Identifier rcr05grv62.doc Language EN Coverage Snapshot at Version number Date Modified by Comments Jos Van Orshoven First version (SADL) & Peter Beusen (ICRI) Jos Van Orshoven (SADL) Completion & harmonization with 31 other country reports Jos Van Orshoven (SADL) Integration of comments by Mr. Marinos Kavouras, Coordinator of geoinfo-soc committee; Addition of executive summary, abbreviations and acronyms; Harmonisation with 31 other country reports; Katleen Janssen (ICRI) General review, correction and Jos Van Orshoven (SADL) update of legal framework Integration of information from limited review of web sites. General review, correction and update. Addition of table pointing to changes with regard to Version Mrs Homata (GR) Update status 2005

3 Katleen Janssen (ICRI) General review, correction and update of legal framework Danny Vandenbroucke Review of the update 2005 and consolidation

4 Change matrix 2005 versus 2004 Paragraphs in which information is reported which deviates in a significant way from what was reported in the Spring 2003 version of this country report are listed in the below table. They are indicated in red. Paragraph Type of change Executive Summary Updated to reflect state Spring Updated to reflect state Spring Updated to reflect state Spring Updated to reflect state Spring New information New information 2.5 New information 2.7 New information K.U.Leuven (SADL-ICRI) + Hall 1

5 Executive summary Within the context of promoting the Information Society and e-government, the vision and approach of the Greek NMA to develop a public National Geographic Information Infrastructure is being promoted by the Greek government. Whereas the vision is fully INSPIRE-inspired and compatible, a pilot phase of the development is just about to start and no concrete results are available. Furthermore a national repository of spatial environmental data has been developed in the framework of the National Environmental Information Network. The system is planned to be updated under the INSPIRE and Water Framework Directive requirements. A major building block and test case for the NSDI is the development, from scratch since no cadastral system previously existed in, of the digital national cadastral system. Parallel to the efforts of the public sector, private companies are developing data products which may be of relevance for the NSDI. K.U.Leuven (SADL-ICRI) + Hall 2

6 Table of Contents CHANGE MATRIX 2005 VERSUS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY... 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS... 3 ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS GENERAL INFORMATION METHOD NSDI-RELATED ACTORS AND INITIATIVES IN GREECE DETAILS OF NAGII GENERAL INFORMATION COMPONENT 1: LEGAL FRAMEWORK AND FUNDING COMPONENT 2: REFERENCE DATA AND CORE THEMATIC DATA COMPONENT 3: METADATA FOR REFERENCE DATA AND CORE THEMATIC DATA COMPONENT 4: ACCESS AND OTHER SERVICES FOR REFERENCE DATA, CORE THEMATIC DATA AND THEIR METADATA COMPONENT 5: STANDARDS COMPONENT 6: THEMATIC ENVIRONMENTAL DATA ANNEXES LIST OF SDI ADDRESSES / CONTACTS FOR GREECE LIST OF REFERENCES FOR GREECE...13 K.U.Leuven (SADL-ICRI) + Hall 3

7 Abbreviations and acronyms CT Core Thematic Data FIR Further Investigation Required GI Geographical Information GINIE Geographic Information Network in Europe HC Hellenic Cadastre HellasGIS Hellenic Geographic Information Society HellaSDI Hellenic Spatial Data Infrastructures HEMCO HEllenic Mapping and Cadastral Organization HMGS Hellenic Military Geographical Service INSPIRE INfrastructure for SPatial InfoRmation in Europe NaGii National Geographic Information Infrastructure NIA No Information Available NMA National Mapping Agency NSDI National Spatial Data Infrastructures OPIS Operational Program Information Society PPP Public-Private Partnerships PSI Policy and legislation on access to public sector information REF Reference data SDI Spatial Data Infrastructures WFD Water Framework Directive K.U.Leuven (SADL-ICRI) + Hall 4

8 1. GENERAL INFORMATION 1.1 Method This report is summarizing the SDI review for, and aims at reflecting the degree to which the SDI situation in is similar to the ideas set out in the INSPIRE position papers 1 and to the more recent INSPIRE scoping documents. The report provides some general information. Due to lack of published or on-line information, the technical issues however have not been elaborated. The GINIE final report has been consulted. Some completing comments were received from Mr. Marinos Kavouras, Coordinator of the Greek geoinfo-soc committee. Relevant information from the recent paper on Comparative Analysis of NSDI policies in and Cyprus: Two different systems within the EU by Dimopoulou et al. (2003) has been integrated. For the 2005 update input was received from the Authorities and integrated in this version of the report. 1.2 NSDI-related actors and initiatives in In the past the scheduling and coordination of the cartographic and cadastral activities in occurred under the auspices of several ministries and state services. The main cartographic activity in -for a hundred and ten years- had been concentrated and implemented under the responsibility of the Hellenic Military Geographical Service (HMGS). In order to respond to the prevailing sub-optimal scheduling and coordination of cartography, the HEllenic Mapping and Cadastral Organization (HEMCO) was founded by law no in HEMCO ( is a state organization, a NMA, under the auspices of the Ministry of Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works. Its purpose is the drawing up and maintenance of a cadastre for, the geodetic coverage and the mapping of the country, the assessment and mapping of the natural resources and the creation of a land and environment data base. In 1994, the EU-cofunded project to establish a fully digital cadastral system was started in acollaborative effort of the NMA and other public institutions and the private sector The project will establish a parcel-based land information system and can be regarded as a major test case and effort in creating an NSDI. In 2000, HEMCO was the first to concretely propose the development of the Hellenic SDI (see executive summary called Nagii or NaGi 2 : National Geographic Information Infrastructure. Now there is an increasing level of awareness and move towards launching a formal HellaSDI initiative with wide participation and linkages to the e-government activities, and other relevant European initiatives such as INSPIRE. 1 INSPIRE position papers, final versions: RDM, ETC, DPLI, ASF, IST, IAS (latest version). K.U.Leuven (SADL-ICRI) + Hall 5

9 In 2004 the Ministry of Environment has completed the first phase of the National Environmental Information Network, under the European Structural Funds, comprising basic spatial environmental information utilizing the appropriate existing national geographic information. Today the Ministry is planning the update and expansion of the Network, funded by the Information Society program. One of the main objectives, set by the project, is the contribution to the development of the necessary environmental data sets for INSPIRE, coordinated at national level by HEMCO. Recently, an important development took place towards this objective. The Hellenic Information Society recognized the usefulness of this objective and adopted the initiative. For various implementation and funding reasons as well as lack of the necessary legal framework, this initiative was decided to be materialized by the Information Society itself by providing funding to some of the major national GI data producers and distributors in The funding comes from OPIS: Operational Program Information Society, Action 2: Citizens and quality of life, Measure 2.4: Regional Geographic Information Systems and Innovative Actions. Due to the probability of this decentralized approach of leading to the development of non-coordinated, heterogeneous and non-interoperable activities, a special scientific committee, called geoinfo-soc was formed to support the NaGi 2 vision. All developments about the progress of NaGi 2 will be reported in a new site called A major task of geoinfo-soc is to implement the following four horizontal projects, essential to the success of NaGi 2 : NaGi2 conceptualization and overall design; Data, architecture and interoperability specifications; Data policy and usability issues; Prototype implementation. The harmonization projects will commence in the summer of 2003 and are expected to be completed by the summer of A number of private companies are producing spatial datasets and applications. An example mentioned by Dimopoulou et al., 2003 is This company seems to offer an impressive list of datasets. The Hellenic Geographic Information Society (HellasGIS) is the Greek national GI association which is a member of Eurogi ( It is a union of professionals from the public, private and academic sector, involved in GI. It is also helping to raise awareness that a major initiative is needed. K.U.Leuven (SADL-ICRI) + Hall 6

10 2 Details of NaGii 2.1 General Information 2.2 Component 1: Legal framework and funding Legal framework and organisational issues The NSDI initiative is in the project phase. No specific legal framework is in place nor are organizational issues clearly defined. However, the founding law of the HEllenic Mapping and Cadastral Organization (HEMCO) (law no. 1647/1986) deals with the use, dissemination of personal data and general national security issues Public-private partnerships (PPP s) The most visible SDI-related activity that HEMCO undertook began in July 1994, when the big project for the establishment of the Hellenic Cadastre (HC) was ratified by the Hellenic State and the European Union. Responsible for the compilation of the HC project is Ktimatologio SA, a private company, which has links with the Ministry of Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works Policy and legislation on access to public sector information (PSI) Article 5 of the Greek Code of Administrative Procedure (Law no. 2690/1999) is a new freedom of information act that gives citizens the right to access administrative documents created by government agencies. It replaces Law 1599/1986. There is a lack of documentation and catalogue services. A pilot project to establish data on the web has been set in place by the Ministry of Environment and Planning. Directive 2003/4 on access to environmental information and Directive 2003/98 on the re-use of PSI have not been transposed into Greek law yet Legal protection of GI by intellectual property rights In the past decade has rapidly caught up with the rest of Europe by introducing modernized laws in the area of intellectual property. The Greek Copyright Act (Law no. 2121/1993) was a landmark in the legal history of copyright in. However, the copyright legislation is still considered to be inadequate for the development of an NSDI. This is partly covered by the transposition of the 2001 directive on copyright in the information society. Directive 96/9 on the legal protection of databases was implemented in by specific legal provisions (art. 7 of Law 2819/2000). Article 2 of the Copyright Act stipulates that the protection afforded under this Law shall not apply to official texts expressive of the authority of the State, notably to legislative, administrative or judicial texts. K.U.Leuven (SADL-ICRI) + Hall 7

11 2.2.5 Restricted access to GI further to the legal protection of privacy Greek Parliament passed Law 2472/1997 on the Protection of Individuals with regard to the Processing of Personal Data ( in April 1997 to guarantee a basic level of privacy protection. This Law follows the provisions of the EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC. Amendments to this Law were made by Laws 2819/2000 and 2915/2001. Directive 2002/58 on privacy and electronic communications has not been transposed in national law yet Licensing framework No information has been found nor provided Funding model for SDI and pricing policy Funding The funding for NaGii comes from OPIS: Operational Program Information Society, Action 2: Citizens and quality of life, Measure 2.4: Regional Geographic Information Systems and Innovative Actions. Some other funding of the SDI-related activities is provided by EU structural funds and e-government initiatives. In 1994 the Hellenic government and the EU ratified the proposal for the major project of the establishment of the Hellenic Cadastre. Funding of this project is partially by the EU and partially by the Greek government. HEMCO has completed the CORINE LAND COVER 2000 also funded partially by EU and Greek government. Pricing policy A clear pricing policy on information has not yet emerged. There are wide variations in the pricing schemes among government departments, and also within the private sector. Each agency calculates the pricing in its own way and there is no homogeneous method for determining the price of various forms of spatial data. There is no overall official policy on the commercialisation of public sector information. K.U.Leuven (SADL-ICRI) + Hall 8

12 2.3 Component 2: Reference data and core thematic data Scale and resolution: European, National, Regional, Local, Other 1: : A/D-converted topographic maps 1: (DB250K); 1: : CORINE Land Cover 1990, Land Cover 2000 (CLC 2005 is in project); 1:50.000: A/D converted topographic maps 1: (DB50K); Very large scale: Cadastral map (15% of territory); 1 meter resolution: Orthophotographs of (80% of territory) Reference data and core thematic data by resolution or scale range According to a report on NSDI policy issues among different countries, conducted by the University of Maine in 1998, for the following spatial digital data is available by the different departments of HEMCO (Dimopoulou, 2003): CORINE LAND COVER at 1: ; Digitized maps of Municipality & Community Administrative Boundaries; 1: maps, provided by the Hellenic Military Service, containing coastline, country and regional borders, capital, cities, area, name and codes; Coordinates (local system of reference) of the national network of points of reference; Digitized maps of Greek Wetlands 1:1.000; From the National Cadastre Project, a very important database containing Land Parcels and Buildings, uniquely coded, will be available when ready. The Company ERANET advertises at its website following nation-wide (inc. the islands) geodatasets: Scale 1: : The HELLAS-product as derived from the 1: maps of the National Statistical Service. - [HEL01] COASTLINE - [HEL12] RELIEF MAP as raster (TIFF image) at 200m resolution, without elevation data. - [HEL22] RIVERS AND LAKES - [HEL31] BASIC LANDMARKS Names of main geographic elements, like towns, islands, lakes, rivers and mountains, prepared to be inserted easily into your digital map. K.U.Leuven (SADL-ICRI) + Hall 9

13 - [HEL41] POSTAL CODE BOUNDARIES Boundaries of all postal codes, according to the most recent revision (1999) by the Greek Post. - [HEL51] REGION BOUNDARIES Administrative boundaries of the 13 regions of the country, representing NUTS2 layer by European Union Standards. - [HEL52] PREFECTURE BOUNDARIES The official subdivision of the country in prefectures. For each one of them, a number of statistics is provided (real population, number of dwellings and number of households), according to 1991 Census. This layer is the NUTS3 level according to the classification made by EUROSTAT. - [HEL54] ADMINISTRATIVE BOUNDARIES OF MUNICIPALITIES (1991 CENSUS) Attributes include: municipality name (both in Greek and Latin), prefecture where it belongs, 1991 Census statistics (real population, number of dwellings, number of households), real population according to 1981 Census, and mean elevation. Greek names are also given in small letters for cartographic use. This feature represents NUTS5 layer for European Union statistical nomenclature. - [HEL55] NEW ADMINISTRATIVE BOUNDARIES OF MUNICIPALITIES (CAPODISTRIAS) Complete coverage of all new municipalities, with their official names (both in Greek and Latin), the names of their capital, as well as demographic data aggregated from the results of 1991 Census. Statistics from the recent 2001 Census are to be included as soon as the National Statistical Service releases demographic data. - [HEL62] MAIN SETTLEMENTS Locations of about settlements (towns and villages) of, with their names and Census codes. - [HEL72] ROAD NETWORK National and community road network, classified in five categories (primary, secondary, etc.), along with the international and national coding of each segment. - [HEL82] RAILWAY NETWORK All operating lines, classified according to their gauge. - HEL04] NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES Boundaries and coastline of neighbouring countries at the areas near the Greek borders. - [HEL13] RELIEF MAP as colour raster (TIFF image) at 100 m resolution (without elevation data). - [HEL32] LANDMARKS Names (as annotation in Greek) of towns, islands, capes, bays, lakes, rivers and mountains ready to be inserted into your digital map. - [HEL42] POSTAL CODE DEMOGRAPHICS For each area, its real population according to 1991 Census is also available. K.U.Leuven (SADL-ICRI) + Hall 10

14 - [HEL43] POSTAL CODE GAZETTEER List containing the postal codes that correspond to each municipality or community (according to the New Administrative subdivision). - [HEL53] PROVINCE BOUNDARIES - [HEL56] MUNICIPALITY DEMOGRAPHICS Population classification for about municipalities and communities, according to the previous administrative subdivision. Attributes include post-processed results of 1991 Census, based on age groups, gender and occupation sector. Updates to 2001 Census data depend on the availability of these data by the National statistical Service. - [HEL57] LIST OF SETTLEMENTS Table of all settlements, with their 1991 Census code, names (in Greek), 1991 demographics, mean elevation. - [HEL58] LIST OF MUNICIPALITIES Table containing the correspondence between the previous and the existing administrative subdivision (the modifications after the Capodistrias Plan came into effect) 1:50.000: Digital Elevation Model as derived from topographic maps 1: processed into a 25 meter by 25 meter grid. 1:20.000: Road network derived from orthophotographs Geodetic reference systems and projections Spatial referencing is done by coordinates, but not according to ISO Name and nature of the geodetic coordinate system (Greek National System): GGRS 87 (in generalized use since 1990) Ellipsoid: GRS80 Geodetic Datum: FIR Map projection: FIR Altitudinal reference system: FIR Responsible for maintenance of the geodetic coordinate system: FIR Algorithms and transformation parameters are available to convert from WGS84 and from systems previously in use in to GGRS 87 and vice versa. 2.4 Component 3: Metadata for reference data and core thematic data No information was found nor provided about practices of metadata creation, nor about the existence of a catalogue of metadata. K.U.Leuven (SADL-ICRI) + Hall 11

15 2.5 Component 4: Access and other services for reference data, core thematic data and their metadata No information was found nor provided about access services to metadata. A reference was found to a pilot project of the Ministry of Environment and Planning to establish data on the web (GINIE, 2003). The provided URL however was not operational by July 2004 ( Environmental data are available on the web site of the Ministry of Environment through the URL Component 5: Standards No information was found nor provided. 2.7 Component 6: Thematic environmental data The main environmental area covered by the Ministry of Environment concern Air Quality, Air Emissions, Water Quality, Waste, Nature and Biodiversity, Noise and Industries, hydrological data etc. The National Environmental Information Network includes measurements from monitoring stations for Air and Water quality, sites of NATURA2000, position of main Industries and Installations, position of main constructions, maps of noise. The system also contains digital geographic background in three scales (1: , 1: and 1:50.000) with information of transport and hydrographic networks, administrative units, DTM, geographical names and land cover for all the country terrain. K.U.Leuven (SADL-ICRI) + Hall 12

16 3 Annexes 3.1 List of SDI addresses / contacts for National geoinfo-soc committee for the NaGii-project Table: SDI contact list Web address Organisationa l mailing address Over-all contact person: tel./fax/ Marinos Kavouras mkav@survey.ntua.gr 3.2 List of references for Table: list of references used to compile the Country Report Web sites: Publications: GINIE: Geographic Information Network in Europe. Spatial data infrastructures: Country Reports FINAL D 5.3.2(b). September 2002 GINIE - GI in the Wider Europe Complete Book, October Dimopoulou, E., T. Labropoulos, V. Nikolaidou and P. Zentelis, Comparative Analysis of NSDI policies in and Cyprus: Two different systems within the EU. Paper presented at the 2nd FIG Regional Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, 2-5 december K.U.Leuven (SADL-ICRI) + Hall 13