1. EuroGeographics Update Nick Land, Executive Director

2. Page 2 The Association Growing! 46 organisations from 41 countries Integration with “cadastre” Roles –best practice, lobbying, product development & sales 5 Head Office staff President – Dietmar Grünreich, BKG Germany

3. Why is Europe important?

4. Page 4 Increasing need for pan-European GI European Directives, Communications, programmes At least 25 requiring GI European GI developments Galileo, GMES (both operational in 2008) Funding programmes eContentplus – focus on GI FP6

5. Page 5 Legislative developments PSI directive Focus on ‘value added’ use Compliance by MS, 1 st July 2005 INSPIRE – proposed directive Focus on public sector use Entry into force in 2007? Specifications for reference data in 2009 and 2012? Metadata service available in 2010?

6. Page 6 Appreciate its completeness, quality and up-to- dateness SABE customers Geodata CEPS/INSTEAD ISTAR Alpine Convention

7. Page 7 The most popular countries in SABE (1 st half of 2004)

8. EuroGeographics strategy

9. Page 9 Strategic goals Achieve interoperability of NMCA information Specifications (set the ‘de facto’ standards) Pricing and licensing framework (to improve access to information) Service infrastructure (from ‘centralised’ to ‘distributed’) Partnerships (network) Sustainable financial model

10. Page 10 Key steps Improve access to existing national reference information (short term) Metadata, Pricing & Licensing, Coordinate Reference Service Provide small scales, ‘harmonised’, pan-European products (short/medium term) SABE, EuroGlobalMap, EuroRegionalMap Develop larger scales, ‘interoperable’, pan-European products/services (longer term) Theme by theme

11. Page 11 Reference information (INSPIRE) Administrative units Transport Hydrography Elevation Cadastral parcels Ortho-imagery Protected sites (out of scope) Land cover (out of scope) Referencing and coordinate systems Coordinate reference systems CRS Geographical grid systems Geographical Names Addresses Small scale :ERM & EGM SABE CRS EuroBoundaries RISE GISS EuroGeoNames EuroRoadS EULIS? >>

12. Page 12 EuroSpec – a programme of interdependent projects EuroRoadSRISEEuroGeoNames Requirements Specifications Service Architecture Prototype Business case Implementation plan Expert Groups Specifications Service Architecture Geodesy Legal & Commercial Quality Cadastre INSPIRE directive & drafting groups

13. Page 13 Improving access to reference information EuroMapFinder On-line ordering Pricing & Licensing Partner network www.eurogeographics.org

14. Page 14 High level project plan Service Content On-line ordering Off-line delivery SABE2001 v1.1 EGM v1.1 ERM (7) Today On-line ordering Electronic download Metadata, CRS Centralised service De-centralised service (for some NMCAs) De-centralised service (extended to more NMCAs) Jan 2008 Jan 2005 Jan 2007 Jan 2006 SABE updates ERM 25+ EGM v2 Roads (prototype) Water Elevation (prototype)

15. Page 15 Conclusions Metadata Data specifications Network services Data policy People & organisations