HOW EUROPEAN LOCATION FRAMEWORK (E.L.F.) RELATES TO EGOVERNMENT AND INSPIRE

Antti Jakobsson Programmes Manager, EuroGeographics

INSPIRE Conference 24th June 2012

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What is EuroGeographics?

• A not-for profit international association under Belgium law (AISBL)

• 56 national mapping, land registry and cadastral agencies in 45 European Countries

• Working to bring interoperable European geospatial reference data for the benefit of society

• A distributed head-office of 10 people

• Experience in making interoperable datasets for 20 years

Understand your users’ needs!

• In ESDIN we found important to understand the users’ process• This understanding is best achieved by involving users to the

project

What we have learnt in ESDIN…

Cross-border interoperability requires agreements with many partners• Data Policy is a key issue• A harmonized policy is a

dream that can not be achieved

• Modular approach to handling licenses -> GeoProduct Finder

• Resolve first policy then technical issues will be resolved

• Consider legal basis

ESDIN results – www.esdin.eu (and videos in Youtube)

• An understanding of user requirements• Harmonised specifications for data• Transformation rules and services• A comprehensive quality assurance approach, including automation of

quality evaluation services• Generalisation rules and services• A modular approach to pricing and licensing and a Geo Product Finder• A more efficient way of gaining access to the data – Federations

authenticated by Shibboleth• Tools for testing the infrastructure• Proposals and tools to manage maintenance and updates• A solution to technical architecture.

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GEOGEOSSEUROGEOSSGMES

UNGGIMUNGENGSDIGlobalMapUN international boundariesUN-SALBUN Gazetteer

Global

Europe

National

Local

INSPIRE

EEA

Eurostat

EuroGeographics

EUMETSAT

Geospatial reference data

ISOOGC

European interoperability framework (EIF)

NMCAs

EUROGI

EUROSDR

Do we need to do something?

CEN

eGovernment

EuroGlobalMap

EuroRegionalMap

EuroBoundaryMap

Digital Agenda

PSI

ISA

Why we need the European Location Framework

Today-Access to NSDI data is mostly national

-Only global players provide easy access to geographic data

-NSDI data is not used for the European policy decision making

-use of INSPIRE data services is ?

-common tools not co-ordinated (Quality, Generalization, Edge-matching, Change management, Visualization)

After - Access possible for

National, European and Global use (E.L.F platform)

- SME applications easy to connect

- NSDI data is used for European policy decision making

- INSPIRE services utilized

- Common tools (in the cloud)

ELFI

BASED ON BEST PRACTICES OF NATIONAL MAPPING AND CADASTRAL AGENCIES, INDUSTRY AND ACADEMIA

Picture: Virginie Luppens

The European Location Framework is a technical infrastructure which delivers authoritative, interoperable, cross-border geospatial reference data for analysing and understanding information connected to places and features

EU Location Framework will provide the political/policy context to the E.L.F

It is for EUROPE – JOINING NATIONAL GEOINFORMATION TOGETHER

• Policy drivers•eGovernment (Programme

on interoperability solutions for European public administrations, ISA)

•Digital Agenda•INSPIRE•GMES,SEIS•PSI•International (UNGGIM,

GEOSS)

Source: EuroGeographics

Content and Services

•E.L.F Global and Regional (EuroRegionalMap, EuroGlobalMap)

•E.L.F Admin Regional (EuroBoundaryMap) and National

•E.L.F international boundaries for edge-matching

•E.L.F Raster Basemap Service (Regional to National)

•E.LF Cadastral (Regional and National)

•E.L.F Geolocator (names, address and admin)

•E.L.F Hydro, Transport, Buildings

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The proposed ELFI project

Project proposal send to the CIP ICT PSP call• 36 months project• 30 partners• Implementation of the

E.L.F • Three phases

Not availablePhase I Global and Regional Phase II Cluster areas / 15 data providersPhase III New cluster areas /NSDIs

Note Phase I covers also phase II countriesPhase III covers also phase I and II countries

The planned E.L.F. coverage at National Level through proposed ELFI project

IT IS A FRAMEWORK THAT MAKES EUROPE UNITED BY GEOINFORMATION

EDGE-MATCHED AT NATIONAL BOUNDARY, QUALITY CHECKED, IDENTIFIABLE, MULTI-LEVEL GEOSPATIAL REFERENCE INFORMATION DISCOVER- LICENSE-AUTHENTICATION- ACCESS

How E.L.F relates to eGovernment and INSPIRE

• Most of the issues we have to solve at European level are similar that have to be solved at National eGovernment level•For example integration of data from many sources•Quality Assurance •Edge-Matching

• INSPIRE sets the basis but is not enough both at National and European Level•Need for co-ordination at European Level but also at national level•Agreements needed both European and National Level ->

EIF/ISA/eGovernment

Together we are stronger

Thank you!

Working together we can achieve much

more than working apart