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Workshop, WGISS 10, Canberra - Wyn Cudlip 9/5/00

ESDIEuropean Spatial Data Infrastructure

Wyn CudlipBNSC/DERA

[email protected]

Presentation to WGISS10pre-meeting workshopCanberra, May, 2000


Overview

Main European initiative is: EUROGI

Also a number of specific EC funded projects


EUROGI European umbrella organisation for GI.

Set up by the EC DGXIII in November 1993.

European Foundation with headquarters in The Netherlands.

EUROGI is an association of associations with one national

member from each country (18 so far)

Pan-European organisations can also be associate members (but

no voting rights) (1 so far).

Members pay annual fee to cover Secretariat and Executive

Committee.

Http://www.eurogi.org/


EUROGI Objectives

Implement European geographic Information Infrastructure (EGII)

Raise awareness of value of GI

Encourage greater use of GI data through:– improved availability and access– removal of legal and economic restraints– promote the use of standards

Represent Europe in GSDI

Help develop strong national GI organisations especially in Central

and Eastern Europe.


GI2000 EuroGI are trying to set up an activity called GI2000

– To create a policy framework for ESDI– To set-up a high level working group to co-ordinate national activities

Started in 1994 to lobby the European Commission (EC)

In 1995 drafted a EGI Policy Consultation Document

By 1999, was about to be endorsed by the EC - but then

all the commissioners resigned

new commissioners have failed to put GI2000 on their

agenda for immediate action


European Countries with National Initiatives Denmark DAiSI

Finland National Geographic Information Infrastructure

France AFIGEO - White Paper on French GI

Germany DDGI

Hungary HUNAGI - Hungary sets national spatial data strategy

Ireland IRLOGI

Italy AM/FM Italia

Netherlands Ravi

Portugal SNIG

Spain AESIG

Switzerland SOGI

United Kingdom National Geospatial Data Framework


NGDF in the UK Led by Ordnance Survey but many other organisations involved

Aims to: improve knowledge and access to information

– Create a NGDF Gateway to provide a central point of access over the Internet to

a wide variety of information (metadata) about spatially related data owned by

public and private sector organisations.

improve consistency of data

– Establish a UK Standard Geographic Base. The UKSGB will provide a single,

easy to use and definite source of information about commonly used geographic

units and the key datasets that support these units.

encourage the use of standards

http://www.ngdf.org.uk/


Specific EC Projects: DISGIS

A DIStributed interoperable framework for GIS

EC Espirit project, 1996-1999

DISGIS Interoperability Reference Model based on ISO RM-ODP

ODP Methodology using UML and XML

demonstrated a portable/interoperable feature layer that can be

placed on top of different geodata servers.


CommonGIS

Common access to geographically referenced data

EC Espirit project started in November 1998

Aims to facilitate dissemination and exploitation of geo-data

to/by broad cross-section of public

emphasis of access to statistical data

Developing improved user interface – enhancing browser with JAVA applets


ETeMII

European Territorial Management Information Infrastructure

EC 5th framework accompanying measure

to support the creation of the:

European Geographic Information Infrastructure

Main goals:– Reference Datasets– Metadata– Standards & Interoperability

http://www.ec-gis.org/etemii/


Conclusions

European activities are still divided along national lines - but co-ordinated through EUROGI.

Have been some attempts to create an European policy framework - without success so far.

A number of specific European projects are working towards a standard spatial data framework

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