Spatial Data Infrastructures in : State of play Spring 2003 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 2003 SPATIAL APPLICATIONS DIVISION K.U.LEUVEN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Vital Decosterstraat 102, B-3000 LEUVEN TEL.: 32 16 32 97 32 FAX: 32 16 32 97 60 URL: http://www.sadl.kuleuven.ac.be
Report meta-information Title Spatial Data Infrastructures in : State of Play Spring 2003 Creator Jos Van Orshoven (SADL) and Peter Beusen (ICRI) Date Issued 2002-12-05 Subject INSPIRE State of Play Activities 1 & 3 Publisher K.U.Leuven (SADL + ICRI) + Margaret Hall consultant (Hall) Description This report is summarizing the review of SDI in Contributor Format MS Word 97/2000 Audience Identifier rcrgrv3.doc Language EN Coverage Snapshot at 2003-06-30 Version number Date Modified by Comments 1.0 2002-12-05 Jos Van Orshoven First version (SADL) & Peter Beusen (ICRI) 2.0 2002-12-20 Jos Van Orshoven (SADL) Completion & harmonization with 31 other country reports 3.0 2003-08-12 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;
Executive summary Within the context of promoting the Information Society, the vision and approach of the Greek NMA to develop a National Geographic Information Infrastructure has been adopted 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. K.U.Leuven (SADL-ICRI) + Hall 1
Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY... 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS... 2 ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS... 3 1. GENERAL INFORMATION... 4 1.1 METHOD... 4 1.2 BACKGROUND... 4 2. DETAILS OF NAGII... 6 2.1 GENERAL INFORMATION... 6 2.2 COMPONENT 1: LEGAL FRAMEWORK AND FUNDING... 6 2.3 COMPONENT 2: REFERENCE DATA AND CORE THEMATIC DATA... 8 2.4 COMPONENT 3: META DATA FOR REFERENCE DATA AND CORE THEMATIC DATA... 8 2.5 COMPONENT 4: ACCESS AND OTHER SERVICES FOR REFERENCE DATA, CORE THEMATIC DATA AND THEIR METADATA... 9 2.6 COMPONENT 5: STANDARDS... 9 2.7 COMPONENT 6: THEMATIC ENVIRONMENTAL DATA... 9 3. ANNEXES... 10 3.1 LIST OF SDI ADDRESSES / CONTACTS FOR GREECE... 10 3.2 LIST OF REFERENCES FOR GREECE... 10 K.U.Leuven (SADL-ICRI) + Hall 2
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 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 PPP Public-Private Partnerships PSI Policy and legislation on access to public sector information REF Reference data SDI Spatial Data Infrastructures K.U.Leuven (SADL-ICRI) + Hall 3
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 Romania is similar to the ideas set out in the INSPIRE position papers 1. 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 1.2 Background 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). Due to the fact that the scheduling and coordination was not dealt with effectively, the HEllenic Mapping and Cadastral Organization (HEMCO) was founded by law no. 1647 in 1986. HEMCO (http://www.okxe.gr/engprof.htm) 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 positive cadastre for, the geodetic coverage and the mapping of the country, the enrollment and mapping of the natural resources and the creation of a land and environment data base. In 2000, HEMCO was the first to propose the development of the Hellenic SDI (see executive summary http://ontogeo.ntua.gr/nagii/executive_summary.pdf), called Nagii or NaGi 2 : National Geographic Information Infrastructure. Recently, an important development took place towards this objective. The Hellenic Information Society http://www.infosociety.gr/ recognized the usefulness of this objective and adopted this 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 2003. 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 great possibility of this 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 http://ontogeo.ntua.gr/nagii/un- WPLA-FIG-KAVOURAS.htm. While previous activities and documents can be found in http://ontogeo.ntua.gr/nagii/, all developments about the progress of NaGi 2 will be reported in a new site called http://www.nagii.gr. 1 INSPIRE position papers, final versions: RDM, ETC, DPLI, ASF, IST, IAS (latest version). K.U.Leuven (SADL-ICRI) + Hall 4
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 specs 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 2004. The Hellenic Geographic Information Society (HellasGIS) is the Greek national GI association which is a member of Eurogi (http://www.hellasgi.gr). 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 5
2. Details of NaGii 2.1 General Information 2.2 Component 1: Legal framework and funding 2.2.1 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. 2.2.2 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. 2.2.3 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 (http://mapserver.minenv.gr/website/pilot). 2.2.4 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. 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. THE GINIE-report states that no sufficient legal framework for the protection of IPR exists in. K.U.Leuven (SADL-ICRI) + Hall 6
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 (http://www.dpa.gr/legal_eng.htm) in April 1997 to guarantee a basic level of privacy protection. This Law follows the provisions of both the EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC. Amendments to this Law were made by Laws 2819/2000 and 2915/2001. 2.2.6 Licencing framework No information has been found nor provided. 2.2.7 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. 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 his own way and there is thus no homogeneous method for determining the price of various forms of spatial data. There is no overall official policy on the issue of commercialisation of public sector information. K.U.Leuven (SADL-ICRI) + Hall 7
2.3 Component 2: Reference data and core thematic data 2.3.1 Scale and resolution: European, National, Regional, Local, Other 1:250.000: A/D-converted topographic maps 1:250.000 (DB250K) 1:100.000: CORINE Land Cover 1990 (2000 in project) 1:50.000: A/D converted topographic maps 1:50.000 (DB50K) Cadastral information (local and very large scale): 15% of territory Orthophotographs at 1 m resolution (1996-1999): 80% of territory 2.3.2 Reference data and core thematic data by resolution or scale range Further investigation is required. 2.3.3 Geodetic reference systems and projections Spatial referencing is done by coordinates, but not according to ISO 19111. 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 maintainance 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: Meta data for reference data and core thematic data No information was found nor provided. K.U.Leuven (SADL-ICRI) + Hall 8
2.5 Component 4: Access and other services for reference data, core thematic data and their metadata No information was found nor provided. 2.6 Component 5: Standards No information was found nor provided. 2.7 Component 6: Thematic environmental data No information was found nor provided. K.U.Leuven (SADL-ICRI) + Hall 9
3. Annexes 3.1 List of SDI addresses / contacts for National geoinfo-soc committee for the NaGii-project Table: SDI contact list Web address Organisation al mailing address Over-all contact person: tel./fax/email Marinos Kavouras mkav@survey.ntua.gr 3.2 List of references for Table: list of references used to compile the Country Report Web sites: http://www.hellasgi.gr http://www.survey.ntua.gr/main/labs/photo/research/wg_33/literature.html http://www.publicsectorinfo.com/summary_results/06.html http://www.wipo.org/globalissues/questionnaires/ic-2-7/greece.pdf http://mapserver.minenv.gr/website/pilot Publications: GINIE: Geographic Information Network in Europe. Spatial data infrastructures: Country Reports FINAL D 5.3.2(b). September 2002 K.U.Leuven (SADL-ICRI) + Hall 10