ESDIN – Progress

David Overton

Cadastre and Land Registry Network

28th May 2010

To Cover

• Eurogeographics• Tools that make INSPIRE work• Our partners• Why ESDIN• ESDIN Challenges• The Future• Adopting ExM• Stay in Contact/ Get involved!

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The role of the National Mapping & Cadastre Agencies and EuroGeographics

Our vision is to achieve ‘interoperability’ of our Members’ national land and geographic information assets in order to provide Europe with an information asset that will support its goal to become the most competitive and sustainable economyin the world

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Our Members and Head Office

Association under French law

53 members from 43 countries,

Distributed HO with an office in Brussels

Staff of 8-10 people

Projects run by our members

The tools that will make INSPIRE work

An overview of ESDIN

EU needs for seamless pan-European reference data and services

Directive 2007/60/EC on the assessment and management of flood risks entered into force on 26 November 2007

Directive 2007/2/EC establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) entered into force on the 15th May 2007

GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) is a European initiative for the implementation of information services dealing with environment and security

Communication from the Commission on Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS) 1st February 2008

ESDIN is

• A European Spatial Data Infrastructure with a best practice network• Dedicated to maximising the use• Co-Funded by the eContentplus programme of the EU • Meet the demands of the INSPIRE legislation• 2/3 through 30 month project

20 Project partners:•EuroGeographics (FR)•Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (DE)

•IGN Belgium (BE)

•IGN France (FR)•Statens kartverk (NO)

•The Finnish Geodetic Institute (FI)•Lantmäteriet (SE)

•Kort & Matrikelstyrelsen (DK)

•National Land Survey of Finland (FI)

•Interactive Instruments (DE)

•Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen (AT)

•Technische Universität Berlin (DE)

•Geodan Software Development & Technology (NL)

•1Spatial (UK)

•EDINA, University Edinburgh (UK)

•National Agency for Cadastre and Real Estate Publicity (RO)

•National Technical University of Athens (GR)

•Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing (HU)•Aalto University School of Science and Technology (FI)• Kadaster (NL)

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NORTH SEA

ATLANTIC OCEAN

MEDITERRANEAN SEA

Denmark

Finland

Poland

France

Germany

Spain

Portugal

Greece

ItalyTurkey

Switzer-land

Austria

CzechRepublic

Estonia

Latvia

Lithuania

Belarus

Ukraine

RomaniaHungary

Slovakia Moldova

Bulgaria

Russia

Ireland

Great Britain

Monte-negro

Serbia

Slovenia

CroatiaBosnia-Herze-govina

Mace-donia

Albania

Norway

Nether-lands

Belgium

Luxembourg

Malta

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NORTH SEA

ATLANTIC OCEAN

MEDITERRANEAN SEA

Denmark

Finland

Poland

France

Germany

Spain

Portugal

Greece

ItalyTurkey

Switzer-land

Austria

CzechRepublic

Estonia

Latvia

Lithuania

Belarus

Ukraine

RomaniaHungary

Slovakia Moldova

Bulgaria

Russia

Ireland

Great Britain

Monte-negro

Serbia

Slovenia

CroatiaBosnia-Herze-govina

Mace-donia

Albania

Norway

Nether-lands

Belgium

Luxembourg

Malta

ESDIN? ...because...

• Trends in Parallel markets• Power of Geographic Information• Legislation

ESDIN Challenges

• ESDI from NSDI• Aggregation• Sources• Resolutions• Themes• Via services

Changing a Business Model

• Traditional P&L is for traditional use• New use is not accounted for• User Insights• A proposition perspective• Define a data policy• Define a policy for Geo Rights Management

Migrate existing pan-European medium/small scale products to ExM

EuroGlobalMap

EuroRegionalMap

EuroBoundaryMap

ExM Data Specification

INSPIRE Data Specs

INSPIRE Data Specifications as framework. Note overlap

ExM – Data specification based upon data from large scale databases

Datasetsmall scale

Corresponding multilingual feature,

attribute and attribute value

catalogue

Inspire Data Specification

ExM Data specification(Large scale)

DatasetNMCA N

Large scale

Including UMLand GML schema

Other requirements

DatasetNMCA A

Large scale

Datasetmedium

scale

Candidate themes

Main themes

Shape change

Analyses of the matching tables

Analysis of the matching tables

NoYes

YesYesNo

No

Yes

No

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FR

NO

ExM

• Mandatory INSPIRE: Mandatory ExM• Feature type from NMCA: in ExM• Attribute in NMCA: in ExM

ExM Cadastral parcels(Large scale)

Extend and amend “ExM” to incorporate large scale data:

Multiple European NMCAs large scale products

ExM Data Specification

INSPIRE Data Specs

• Transformation and generalisation services required

Metadata and Quality Guidelines

• guidance for discovery and evaluation

• a standards-based data quality model

• comparison between countries data providers

• Web-based service semi-automatic evaluation

QualityGuidelinesQualityGuidelines

QualitymodelQualitymodel

EvaluatorServiceEvaluatorService

What is needed?

How to evaluate?

How to measure?

What is acceptable?

NMCA Data maintenance and business processes

Exploit INSPIRE challenge to improve geospatial maintenance at the European level1. Methodologies for edge-matching2. Stable Unique Identifiers3. Generalisation4. Means of deploying Change only Update for interested users

ExM Transformation specifications

ExM

INSPIRE

Large scale

Medium scale

Small scale

Large scale

Medium scale

Small scale

Virtual INSPIRE compliant ExM Products

NMCA 1

Large scale

Medium scale

Small scale

NMCA N

Multiple European NMCAs

On the fly transformations

• Develop a reusable framework for specifying transformation rules

• Also ExM medium to ExM Small, i.e. generalisation

Interoperability Services, Goals

1. Develop Best Practices for building

• INSPIRE-compliant content access services

- View & Download

• … focusing on functionalities for

- Content transformations: CRS, Schema, Edge-matching, Generalisation

- Geo Rights Management

2. Build services to provide access, in INSPIRE-compliant form, to Vector, Raster, Topographic,Cadastral data, large or small scale, harmonised or single country source.

EBM

EBM

NMCA1NMCA1

GeoRM Layers

Applications and Geoportals

NMCAMaster

data

NMCAMaster

dataExMLarge

ExMSmall

Trans-formation

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TransformationTransformation

Quality evaluation

Quality evaluation

Conformance testing

Conformance testing

Edge-matching

Edge-matching

Conformance testing

Conformance testing

Edge-matching

Edge-matching

GeneralizationGeneralization

Conformance testing

Conformance testing

GeneralizationGeneralization

NMCAMaster

data

NMCAMaster

dataExMLarge

ExMSmall

Trans-formation

Trans-formation

Quality evaluation

Quality evaluation

Conformance testing

Conformance testing

Conformance testing

Conformance testing

Conformance testing

Conformance testing

GeneralizationGeneralization

NMCA2NMCA2

GeoRM Layers

ERMERMEBMEBM EGMEGM

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EGM

EGM

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EGM

EGM

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EBM

EBM

ERM

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GeneralizationGeneralization

ExMMedium

ExMSmall

ExMLarge

GeoRM Layers

Datasets downloaded for user applications

EBM, ERM and EGM are just specific download services from respective ExMsEG services are ’cascading’ to NMCA servicesEG GeoRM is a ’broker’ for NMCA GeoRM

This NMCA derives both ExM Large and ExM Medium from its Master data

This NMCA derives ExM Large from its Master data, and generalize ExM Medium from ExM Large

Edge-matching does not necessarily need to be performed twice, generalization of edge-matching should still be edgematched

ExMMetadata

ExMMetadata

MetadataMetadata

MetadataMetadata

ExMMedium

ExMMedium

Addi-tional data

Addi-tional data

Conformance testing

Conformance testingEBMEBM ERMERM EGMEGM

Test Environment

Test both the approach taken in the project, specifications and implementations, including:

– download and view services – transformation services– generalisation– edge-matching– geoRM and access control– Change only Update

The future

• A break with tradition• Fewer barriers to use• Extending ESDIN community• Agile approaches• Flexible license conditions• Next project

Adopting the ExM specification

• Assures INSPIRE compliance• Provides Interoperable products AND services• Makes INSPIRE useful.

In Conclusion

• ESDIN Challenges the Status Quo• Draws on vital experience• Makes INSPIRE possible and desirable• Can be experienced first in new services (like EuroGeoNames)• Needs to support a number of business models• Will unlock the potential of PSI Location Information

Specific Events

• Planning

– National Mapping and Cadastral Seminar (End Sept 2010)

– Webinar for Data Management (Early September)– Business Model Workshop (Early September)

Communications: All Channels are open!

• See us at the Krakow INSPIRE conference 2010

• Read about us in June’s GeoConnexion magazine

• Engage with us via the Eurogeoforum

• Keep up to date via www.esdin.eu

Any questions?

david.overton@eurogeographics.org