EuroGeographics Update Nick Land, Executive Director

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

Why is Europe important?

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

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

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

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

EuroGeographics strategy

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

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

Reference information (INSPIRE) Referencing and coordinate systems 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 EuroBoundaries EuroRoadS RISE <<< EuroSpec >>> EULIS Implementation CRS GISS EuroGeoNames

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

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

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

Conclusions Metadata Data specifications Network services Data policy People & organisations