1. NSDI: State of Play as Molière's M. Jourdain "le bourgeois Gentilhomme" France is creating a NSDI without knowing it Thus NSDI is not per se an issue in the French context!!! The current ISSUE is the RGE following the MP report on IGN and the information society Not very high in the recent political agenda Name: François Salgé Country: France

2. NSDI: State of Play Organizational and fundamental aspects Foundation – France : from François 1er to 1982 centralised and since 1982 the new way to decentralisation – 22 régions, 99 départements, 36 000 communes, 60 M inhabitants, 550 000 km², 365 + kind of cheese – 1986 : CNIG Policy advisor on GI – 1986 : AFIGéO place where Public/Private actors meet – 1994-2002 : 100 "Comités départementaux de l'information géographique"

3. NSDI: State of Play Organizational and fundamental aspects Local SDIs : data services (cadastre, ortho, topo) for local partners – Region PACA : joint initiative from decentralized ministries and "conseil régional – Dept Vendée : collective initiative from Mayors led by MEP – Dept Haute Savoie : initiative from "conseil général" – "Grand Lyon" : from Lyon city to the Urban Community

4. NSDI: State of Play Organizational and fundamental aspects Standards – since 1994 : EDIGéO – 1992-1998 : chairmanship of CEN/TC 287 – 1998 : ENv as experimental French standards – National referencing system : RGF93 based on Euref – On going work on "common framework for interoperability of administration information systems" (e-France / ATICA)

5. NSDI: State of Play Organizational and fundamental aspects Legal framework – law directly refering to GI : "obligation de rattachement", new continuous census, cadastre (role of chartered surveyors) – many laws indirectly referering to GI : decentralisation; sustainable development, urban renewal – future law on Information Society

6. NSDI: State of Play Organizational and fundamental aspects Funding : four main mechanisms – 100 % public funding (often with public tendering) rasterisation of cadastral maps, electronic nautical charts geodesy, aerial survey local governments' GIS – Barter vectorisation of cadastral maps : loc gvt and utilities funding the initial capture, Cadastral service updating for free to the partners "tour de table" or "adding allocation to gvt subidies" – partial public funding : subsidies + licence fees most of NMA products – no public funding : pre investments and return on investments

7. NSDI: State of Play Organizational and fundamental aspects NON GI perspectives – Master plan for the entry of France into the Information Society – State modernisation and new ways of governance – assignment of general interest services mission against contract conditions New issue from the public tendering rules : – how to avoid the Ministry of agriculture to go for a call for tender while the ministry of public transport is "half" funding the orthophoto component of the RGE

8. NSDI: State of Play Roles and responsibilities Cadastre = department of Min economy, finance and industry - 100% funded nautical chart = department of Min of defence - 100% - itemized budget statistics = department of Min economy, finance and industry - 100% - itemized budget NMA = "établissement public" of Min of public works with a "CA" - 50% - idependent budget intergovernmental organisation for GI = CNIG

9. NSDI: State of Play Organizational and fundamental aspects Intellectual property rights and pricing – IPR is not an issue as the existing law (including database directive) covers the issue – pricing is not an issue as it is a consequence of the funding mechanisms Educational aspects – "école d'ingénieur" versus universities – setting up of a high level French geomatic training system – Geoformation portal

10. NSDI: State of Play Content geodetical service : permanent GPS service (NMA, municipalities, universities, etc.) Core data : Référentiel Géographique à grande Echelle, nautical charts Other data : digital geological maps, cadastral maps (to support taxes collection) AND access to ENVIRONMENTAL DATA Semantic interoperability : RGE, continuous updating, NMA's integrator role

12. NSDI: State of Play Data documentation ENv metadata in use with free software available on line (Reports V2) metadata catalogue on coastal zone departmental GI committee all specifications should be made public

13. NSDI: State of Play Access to information Discovery services – old fashion non maintained CNIG "catalogue des sources" – planed : observatory Data access and geoprocessing services – EDIGéO library – free co-ordinate transformation software – National commission for informatics and liberty

14. NSDI: State of Play User expectations and benefit – objectives of the infrastructure – Driving applications free access to environmental data, risk management all applications in local governement : local planning, citizenship debates, third party "oposability" creation of "établissements publics de coopération intercommunale" and "schema de coherence territoriale and Urbanism local plans, – eGovernment, eEurope strengthening contact with PM "agency for ICT in the admin" Territorial information systems with shared GI at departemental level – Exploitation of public information as for any public information