GIS Building Communities beyond National Borders (Building Successful Spatial Data Infrastructures) Nick Land, ESRI Europe
UK worst flooding in the last 60 years 350,000 households without drinking water
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Sustainable Development Agenda Health Care Agriculture, Forestry Economy, Employment Education Energy Environment Public Safety Important societal issues that need a geographic approach 5 5
GIS Enabling us to understand & manage our world Managing Analysing Measuring Acting Improved decision making better quality cost effective better communication 6
GIS Implementations Follow Common Patterns Multi-User Desktop Federated Shared Database Fixed Applications Transactions Enterprise Infrastructure Work Groups Ad Hoc Projects An alysis/modeling/mapping Integration Sharing Collaboration Professional Organisations 7
The Web Provides a New Pattern for Implementing GIS Becoming a New Platform Supporting Collaborative Computing Service Integration (Mashups) User Contributed Content Distributed Data Management Distributed Collaboration GeoWeb Map Services Web 2.0 Man y Participants Interconnected Interoperable Integrati ve Dynamic Web 1.0... An Agile Framework for Collaboration & Integration of Systems 8
GIS on the Web Will Be Fused With Everything Else Providing New Possibilities for Sharing, Integrating and Using Integrating GIS Services Consumer Base Maps & Content Georeferenced Web Content (Geo-RSS, Photos, Documents... ) GIS Users W eb Users Use Sensor Network (GRSS) Serve + + Georeferenced Content Author GIS Serv ers Base Maps & Globes Integrating Professional GIS with everything on the Web Maps Data GIScience / Models... Creating a New Kind of Geospatial Framework... In an Open and Interoperable Environment 9
Sustainable Development is the goal GIS is the platform SDI is the framework Planning Decision Making Modeling Analyze Measure Action Guiding Human Activities Improving our World 10
What is an SDI? Global Spatial Data Infrastructure, GSDI Cookbook An SDI denotes the relevant base collection of technologies, policies and institutional arrangements that facilitate the availability of and access to spatial data It provides a basis for spatial data discovery, evaluation, and application for users and providers within all levels of government, the commercial sector, the non-profit sector, academia and by citizens in general 11
Components of an SDI (compliance) Metadata Data Services Data Policy Organisational cooperation Standards Delivering benefit e.g egovernment 12
Some key principles (value add) Easy to discover data and evaluate its suitability (discovery services) Data are stored & maintained at the most appropriate level (distributed) Possible to combine data from different sources in a consistent way (data integration) Data collected at one level of public authority can be shared with other levels (local < > national) Remove obstacles to use (maximise use) SDI = DATA SHARING = BETTER DECISIONS 13
SDI Development Value-adding Data integration Compliance Data discovery Non-compliance Ad-hoc Time 14
Ad hoc SDI - Characteristics No formal mandate or SDI governance structure No overall strategy for the SDI User knowledge of datasets and data providers important But, many of the elements of an SDI are present Metadata & Data exists: but to what standards? Definitive or multiple sources? How useful is the metadata? Pricing & Licensing policies; legal framework Bi-lateral cooperation Private sector developing value added services 15
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SDI Development (2) Value-adding Compliance Non-compliance Ad-hoc Data discovery Data integration Metadata (dataset level) Geoportals (Catalogue, WCS,WMS) Strategy & policies in place Cooperation (leadership) Producer driven, government focus Local, regional, national Time 24
GeoPortal Concept Users Users Users Search Catalog and Find Connect and Use Download and Use Geo Portal Publish GIS data and services Document in catalog Geospatial Resources GIS Data FTP GIS Data Data Servers GIS Data 25
Some Public GeoPortals Around the World 26
Success totally dependent on contents, user interface & search facilities EDM 2007 - INSPIRE Breakout Session 27
Norway Digital: Give a little, gain a lot 40 government bodies 93 Utility companies 17 / 19 counties; 356 / 431 municipalities 260,000 datasets 100 operational web services Joint funding Information shared without charge amongst partners Private sector pays Strong political support; leadership from Statens kartverk; strong cooperation 28
Northern Ireland: Shared ownership of SDI Future Search method used to agree: Common values, purpose & projects Create a desired future 50 organisations discussed trends, priorities, working groups Result: GI strategy & Implementation programme Lusty Beg island 29
SDI Development (3) Value-adding Compliance Non-compliance Data discovery Ad-hoc Data integration Metadata (feature level) WFS, & other transformation services, application focused Comprehensive data sharing Reference data, thematic data Private sector fully involved European wide (INSPIRE) Time 30
Netherlands: Improving the D in the NSDI 2000 Government study into streamlining key data to support better governance Reorganise the government s information infrastructure to create (and maintain) authentic (base) registers Some principles: Collect once, use many times Officially recognised registers of known quality Ownership and use of registers defined in law Deliver benefits to users 31
The Netherlands Authentic (Base) registers Businesses Persons Cadastral parcels Buildings Addresses Geography (base mapping) 32
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Legal & policy framework Least developed aspect of SDIs Different business models across Europe: Government pays User pays Distinction between different types of data, user and usage Goal is to maximise use and ensure sustainable funding 35
European SDI the INSPIRE Directive A framework framework directive to lay down general rules aimed at the establishment of the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community. Primary purpose of the directive is to provide relevant spatial information in support of Community environmental policies. The European infrastructure will be built upon National SDIs.
INSPIRE themes Annex 1 & 2 1. Coordinate reference systems 2. Geographical grid systems 3. Geographical names 4. Administrative units 5. Addresses 6. Cadastral parcels 7. Transport networks 8. Hydrography 9. Protected sites 1. Elevation 2. Land cover 3. Orthoimagery 4. Geology
INSPIRE themes Annex 3 1. Statistical units 2. Buildings 3. Soil 4. Land use 5. Human health and safety 6. Utility and go vernmental services 7. Environmental monitoring facilities 8. Production and industrial facilities 9. Agricultural and aquaculture facilities 10. Population distribution demography 11. Area management/restriction/regulation zones & reporting units 12. Natural risk zones 13. Atmospheric conditions 14. Meteorological geographical features 15. Oceanographic geographical fea tures 16. Sea regions 17. Bio-geographical regions 18. Habitats and biotopes 19. Species distribution 20. Energ y resources 21. Mineral resources
Implementing Rules (baseline May 2007) Metadata Specifications Network services Data sharing Monitoring Transpositio n R I R I R I R I R I 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Annex 1,2 3 Annex 1 2,3 2019
INSPIRE Geoportal ESRI / INSPIRE Testbed Tested various services: WMS, WCS, WFS EDM 2007 - INSPIRE Breakout Session 40
SDI Development Value-adding Data integration Compliance Data discovery Non-compliance Ad-hoc Time 41
Challenges ahead? SDIs are not just for Christmas, they are for life! ( compliance ) Managing expectations ( value adding ) Funding & institutional cooperation (it s about people) Beyond national borders (INSPIRE) 42
Technology can help us deal with today s challenges if we have access to the right data in the right format to take action at the right time Technology SDI Policy People 43
Geodatabase Source Capture and Compilation Standards Job Tracking Geodatabase Data Management Data Editing Data Maintenance And Quality Assurance Interoperability DBMS Quality Control Cartographic Production Workflow Data and Cartographic Dissemination Maps/Charts Hardcopy Maps Charts Atlases Data Products Imagery Grids/Terrains Vector Data PDF Web Portal Services SDI Catalog Maps/Globes Features Imagery Geoprocessing 44
Sustainable Development is the goal GIS is the platform SDI is the framework regional, national, cross border Decision Planning Making Modeling Analyze Measure Action Guiding Human Activities Improving our World 45