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Open and free INSPIRE-relevant spatial data in Germany

Stefan Sandmann INSPIRE – Conference 2013, Firence

Open and free INSPIRE-relevant

spatial data in Germany

Amendment to the act on access to digital spatial data in Germany (federal level)

Stefan Sandmann Germany



Agenda

• INSPIRE-Directive und German act

• Consideration to prices an licenses

• Approach of the amendment to the Act

• Synchronizing with other ideas in Germany



2 basic messages

• With the amendment to the act on access to digital spatial data in Germany (Geodatenzugangsgesetz) on the federal level spatial data and metadata are available via spatial data services free of charge for commercial and non-commercial use

• The conditions for use are well ordered in an ordinance



INSPIRE as a basis for the act to digital spatial data in Germany

Transposition in German legislation: 17 legislation acts (1 federal und 16 states (Länder))



Regulations to charges in INSPIRE and in Germany

• INSPIRE Art. 14:

– Member States may allow a public authority ….. ……. to apply charges where such charges secure the maintenance of spatial data…..

• German legislation act: – Public authorities may grant licenses for use and demand

charges



What´s going on in my mind? Revenues versus bureaucracy

• Revenues on the Federal level are very small:

– With a statement of a federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy, the revenue for spatial data during the last year was less than 100.000,-- Euro

• Costs for bureaucracy: – Even with low revenues, individual user agreements must be

concluded at the national level – Revenues and necessary bureaucracy keep here in an

unreasonable relation



Evaluation for Europe: Budget versus Revenues

Quelle: EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF REMOTE SENSING COMPANIES Brussels, 6th December 2012

Abb.: Overview Budget versus Revenues in europe



Costs for bureaucracy

• Federal level: – ca. 25 Agencies holding spatial data

• Round about 300 Data Deliveries / Year / Agency: – Correspondence, Licensing, inquiries, … – Time duration: 1 – 4 Hours / procedure

• Costs for the Agencies:

– 25 * 300 * 2h * 36 Euro = 540.000,-- Euro

• Costs for the Enterprises, using the data: – 25 * 300 * 2h * 33,20 Euro = 498.000,-- Euro



Paradigm shift: Spatial Information „free of charge”

• Fundamental amendment to the geoinformation legislation Act: – On the federal level in general all spatial data and metadata shall be

made available via spatial data services free of charge for commercial and non-commercial use.

• This supports the activation of the value-added potential for all underlying federal spatial data.

• The fee exemption relieves (unburdens) the spatial data suppliers of the obligation to provide programs for e-business.

• Free access to spatial data supports the objectives of the German federal "open government" initiative and the Revision of the directive “Re-use of public sector information”.

• This leads to less bureaucracy by uniformed terms of use.



Spatial Information „free of Charge“ for commercial and non-commercial use

§ 11 General use Spatial data and metadata shall be

made available via spatial data services free of charge for commercial and non-commercial use unless a special legal provision provides otherwise …….



Synchronizing different initiatives

• Open Government Partnership, 46 world wide (9/2011)

– Political openness, transparency and cooperation in the society

• Initiatives of the European Commission – Revision of the directive “Re-use of public sector information”

• German government program „networked and transparent administration“ – Project „Open Government“, part „Open Data“ – Project „E-Government - legislation“

• German project „licensing and costs“ – Common project of the federal level, the state level (16) and the

municipalities to establish common licensing cost models for spatial information

– On state level and municipality level, charges for spatial data are popular – The amount depends from surface, number of objects, commercial use,..



Regulation (Ordinance) to determine the conditions for use

• Goal 1: Common framework – We need a common framework for commercial and non-commercial use

• Goal 2: General legal regulation

– Instead of individual licensing and contracting: General legal regulation

• Goal 3: Be very open: – duplicate, print out and present spatial data – work with the data, combine the data and change the data – use the data in internal and external business processes, products and

applications

• Goal 4: Small restriction: – Linking to the source references



Ordinance to determine the conditions for use

§ 1 Objectives and scope

§ 2 Uses

§ 3 Sources references

§ 4 Limited liability

§ 5 Entry into force

Section 2: Uses Spatial data and

services, including the appropriate metadata, shall be provided free of charge for all currently known purposes and for all purposes becoming known in the future of commercial and non-commercial use



What kind of data can be expected ?



Time Table

• December 2011: Start of legislation Initiative

• January - February 2012: Public consultation to all ministries and the Länder

• February – September 2012: Consultation upper and lower house of the German Parliament

• 16. November 2012: Open data legislation act come into force

• 23. March 2013: Conditions for use come into force



Future Trends at the State Level (Länder)

• Hamburg: – Act of Transparency, 19.6.2012 – Free use of spatial data (also geodata) – Adresses, Parcels, …

• Baden-Württemberg:

– Strategie for Open Data Strategie – Decision of the ministry – Geodata are provided for all currently known

purposes

• Nordrhein-Westfalen: – Ordinance for Provision of spatial data – Mostly view services

• Berlin:

– Agreement of the federal state of Berlin: – Open Data – Goal: Saving staff



What is going on in Europe? • Denmark:

– It is a pleasure to inform you that Denmark from 1st January 2013 releases its digital geospatial data with free access to all in the public sector, enterprises and citizens.

– The release include all topopgraphic data, cadastral data and the Danish Hight Model.

• Netherlands:

– open geodata: • topography, road maps, hight models, buildings,

addresses. – The ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment itself

has resolved to make all public data of the ministry available by January 1st, 2015 at the latest.

• Finland:

– All topographic data produced by National Land Survey of Finland was opened last year.

– The data includes raster and vector databases, aerial ortophotos, elevation models and laser scanning data.

• Island: – From 23 January 2013 digital maps and Spatial Data held

by the National Land Survey of Iceland have been made free of charge.



Thanks for your attention

Open and free Inspire – relevant data in Germany - Amendment to the geoinformation legislation act (federal level) -

Stefan Sandmann [email protected]

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