PDOKand the Dutch Environmental Planning Act

Haico van der VegtDutch Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Authority

INSPIRE conference 2014, Aalborg, DK

Outline

• INSPIRE• PDOK• Environmental Planning Act

INSPIRE

• Content: 34 reference and environmental themes

• Metadata: make sure data and services can be found

• Easy accessible: service oriented architecture

• Quality of Service:– Availability, capacity and

performance• Report on implementation and

monitor usage

Ministry of Infrastructure & Environment -3 themes

NSDI executivecommittee

PDOK

Cadastre, Land Registry,Mapping Agency of NL - 12 themes

National Road Authority –8 themes

Ministry of Economic Affairs9 themes

– Partnership

PDOK

• Geo-information distribution portal:– webservices– support, maintenance, development– future-proof, scalable and secure

• Based on INSPIRE requirements• Partnership of public organisations• Part of the Dutch public Spatial Data Infrastructure• Using (inter)national GI standards• Open source software and components based• Service Provider for INSPIRE and Key Registers• www.pdok.nl

PDOK, main objectives

• PDOK partners: • Efficiency benefits:

• Main driver: INSPIRE: “Invent the wheel” only once!• Data delivery Key Registers (Addresses, Buildings,

Topography, Cadastre, …)• Usage of geo data in work processes

• Policy (Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment): • Support of the national geo-policy (supply optimisation)

• Dutch INSPIRE hub• Sector hub for the geo key registers • Delivering open geo-data to society (“open, unless...”

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Facts and figures• 71 national datasets• Over 580 million map requests in 2013• 60% unknown usage• Currently 365 registered public organisations

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Environmental Planning in the Netherlands –current situation

• Complex and fragmented situation about permits, restrictions, planning, etc.

• Lack of user perspective

• Big administrative burden

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Environmental Planning Act

• Changes in legal administration• Better access to relevant data about our

physical environment• For citizen, company and government• Good quality data• One-stop-shop• Demand driven• Consistent with European regulations

• Information infrastructure: “Avenue of the Environment”

Concept of the “Avenue of the Environment”

• Distribution channel of all relevant environmental themes

• All public organisations producing and/or distributing environmental data

• Data stored and managed in ‘Information Houses’

• Consistent quality (availability, usability and reliability)

• User/usage focused• Easy access• Agreements on financing

“Avenue of the environment”

SafetyAir Soil

NatureWaterNoise Ref. data

Avenue: distribution infrastructure

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Information House

• Relevant information about an environmental theme

• Decide on:– Organisation: who is

responsible, who is the manager, who are the dwellers/partners, etc.?

– Source data– Validation, standards– Information products - datasets– Connect output to the avenue– Etc.

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Governance

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Information Houses and INSPIRE

INFORMATION HOUSE

Number ofINSPIRE-themes

NOISE 3x

AIR 5x

NATURE 5x

SOIL 7x

SAFETY 3x

WATER 6x

REFERENCE DATA 15x

ETC.

Role of PDOK

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NatureWaterNoise Ref. data

PDOK and the Environmental Planning Act

• PDOK is already INSPIRE compliant service provider for a number of public organisations

• PDOK as one of the central facilities to deliver INSPIRE and other environmental information

• Connecting information from one or more houses to any user or application

THANK YOU