National Reports

1. National Reports Quality Knowledge Exchange Network October2013

2. 13 National reports

3. BEV, AustriaFrom June 2013 to October 2013 • News concerning Data Quality • see report May 2013, Vienna meeting • Any other news that would be of interest for Q-KEN? • Project “Vhw-HIST” has been started - Digitization of all plan-documents stored in the surveying offices to facilitate temporary support between the surveying offices of the BEV and to improve the service for our customers by making these documents available via BEV-portal(This project is one of the measures to meet our objectives according to the 2013 newly implemented principle of outcome orientation.)

4. National Geographic Institute, BelgiumFrom May 2013 to October 2013 • News concerning Data Quality • Preparing some Quality Assurance Tests for new roads and building data • News concerning quality management • Designing quality management system for new production line (expected in 2018)

5. Geodatastyrelsen- Denmark From May 2013 to October 2013 • News concerning Data Quality • We have developed a generic model for the work on data quality • The model are incompliance with ISO 9001 • We have initiated a project wit the aim of describing our processes and thereby also describing our data quality

6. Ordnance Survey Great BritainFrom May 2013 to October 2013 • News concerning Data Quality • Investigations have begun into carrying out a large reconciliation exercise with regards to Names on various scales of mappings. A variety of techniques are being used to try and automate the discovery of as many errors as possible. • We will also look at ways that we can possibly fix these automatically. • Particular areas of concern are Gaelic Names. • The conflict resolution tool that we have been developing is nearing maturity with development expected to complete at the end of December 2013.

7. Ordnance Survey Great BritainFrom May 2013 to October 2013 • Any other news that would be of interest for Q-KEN? • Ordnance Survey is currently in the process of developing and releasing a number of new products including a rail network, a water network, functional sites and a new gazetteer.

8. NATIONAL CADASTRE AND MAPPING AGENCY S.A. (NCMA S.A. (former “KTIMATOLOGIO S.A.”)) From June 2013 to October 2013 • News concerning Data Quality • Quality Control for Completeness, logical consistency and thematic accuracy of spatial data and legal status of property rights (according to registered deeds, court decisions, ministerial decisions) has been completed for all delivered data, • Absolute accuracy of spatial data has been completed for 4 contracts (1690 gcp’s), • Acceptance sampling inspection using procedure A of ISO 2859-2 (sampling item = ownership). Has been completed for 12 municipalities (800 ownerships), • Review and complete the cadastral survey specifications for use in new projects (NCMA S.A. has announced a tender for cadastral survey of the rest of the country. Mostly agricultural and mountainous areas ~95.000 km2 and ~16 million rights), • Review of Quality Plan based on new technical specifications (under development), • Revision of existing checklists (Quality Control Records) and internal software applications (under development).

9. NATIONAL CADASTRE AND MAPPING AGENCY S.A. (NCMA S.A. (former “KTIMATOLOGIO S.A.”)) From June 2013 to October 2013 • News concerning Quality Management • Re-engineering of the QMS of the Agency according the ISO 9001:2008 Standard: Re-engineering of the QMS architecture, development and updating of all operational proceduresand incorporation into a QMS Information System Environment). • Preparation for ISO 20000 Certification of the National Cadastre Information System (SPEK) of the Agency, which is expected to be carried out at the beginning of 2014.

10. NATIONAL CADASTRE AND MAPPING AGENCY S.A. (NCMA S.A. (former “KTIMATOLOGIO S.A.”))From June 2013 to October 2013 • Any other news that would be of interest for Q-KEN? • A Project is conducted for the establishment of a PMO (Project Management Office of NCMA S.A) (the project is at the phase of implementation). • The core processes regarding “PROJECT MANAGEMENT” (regarding project definition, risk management, change management, problem resolution, human resource management, monitoring and reporting) are under revision for their compliance with the PMBOK (5th edition) guidelines.

11. FÖMI, HungaryFrom May to October2013 • News concerning Data Quality • Further development of own software for the data quality of cadastral data (Visual Basic – PostgreSQL). 1.1 version is working. • News concerning Quality management • FÖMI made contact with Hungarian Standards Organisation. Procurement of the ISO standards are in progress. • Any other news that would be of interest for Q-KEN? • Creation of INSPIRE compliant datasets for Administrative Unit, Cadastral data and Geographical Names is in progress. The pilot version is working. (Downloading services)

12. Ordnance Survey, Ireland From May 13 to October 13 • News concerning Data Quality • Prime 2 Data preparation :100s of man hours spent • Prime 2 Data Validation :100s more of man hours to be spent! • News concerning quality management • OSI has an international business area within Remote Sensing Department • Seeking ISO 9001 accreditation for Electronic Terrain and Obstacle Database (ETOD) process • ISO consultant hired to assist us since summer 2013 • Expected to achieve in January 2014

13. Ordnance Survey Ireland From May 13 to October 13 • Any other news that would be of interest for Q-KEN? • Prime 2 re engineering project signed off • Model Awareness Training started in June 13 • Application Training for the Production Support Group begins in November • Application Training for all Production staff begins in December Merger with OSI, Property Registration of Ireland and Valuation Office 8 workgroups set up with terms and conditions Employment Control Framework Department of Public Expenditure and Reform indicates we have to reach a figure of 185 staff by the end of the year i.e 38 more staff to go

14. National Land Survey of Iceland, IcelandFrom January 2013 to October 2013 • News concerning Data Quality • The ERM and EBM projects now have a common coastline with all subsequent ERM layers adjusted to it; • The new ERM/EBM coastline has been quality checked and fixed for double geometry errors and vertex density errors of 5 meters; • The ERM and EBM projects now have identical Administrative Boundary template, which is INSPIRE compliant; • The National Database was checked for double geometry errors in point, line and polygon layers; • The National Database was checked for vertex density errors with a tolerance of 1 meter;

15. National Land Survey of Iceland, IcelandFrom January 2013 to October 2013 • News concerning quality management • After the evaluation of the geometry quality of the National Database the decision is still pending of how/when to fix the errors; • Spatial Data has been identified for INSPIRE provision for Annex I, Hydrography. The decision needs to be made how the Hydro Network will be provided (create new or modify the existing one) as currently the National Hydro Data does not have the Network.

16. The Norwegian Mapping Authority, NorwayFrom May 2013 to October 2013 • News concerning Data Quality • Revision of the “Geodata standard/control of Geodata” with implementation of ISO 19157, quality elements and quality measures (2013-2014) • After that, revision of the “Production and documentation of Geodata” will start up

17. IGN, Spain From May 2013 to October 2013 • News concerning Data Quality: • Quality Assurance in the 25K cartographicbase: • On visual inspection of the map, we are standardizing nomenclature errors in order to facilitate communication between reviewers and operators. • Quality Assurance in the 100K topographic base: • Semiautomatic Quality Control workflow based on GIS queries • Homogeneity and efficiency in the process by Standardized Testing and Reporting • As a result: Spain at 100K updated every 2 years • Quality Assurance in the 200K cartographicbase: • Style Librariesforcartographicgeometries • SemiautomaticQuality Control workflowbasedonqueriestoobtaincartographicconflicts • As a result: Spain at 200K updated every 2 years

18. IGN, Spain From May 2013 to October 2013 • Quality Assurance in the Services: • News concerning quality management • In 25k map, we continue with the development of a DB that contains the different processes we undertake and we will allow direct control and real-time, tracking task, alarms to avoid exceeding the default time set in each task, tool to facilitate prioritization of tasks, etc.. we would like to put into operation in early 2014. • We are defining new production processes to update the DB25 and the Map25 simultaneously, and put the updated files to the end user in real-time. • We are improving incidents tool so it can be accessible to both staff and to external users IGN. • view services (vector data): • availability: 99,84% • performance: 0,64 sec. • requests: 17,92M • view services (raster data): • availability: 98,98% • performance: 1,96 sec. • requests: 12,06M • discovery services • availability: 99,99% • requests: 0,82M

19. ICC, Catalunya - Spain From May 2013 to October 2013 • News concerning Data Quality • ICC Topographic Data Bases • New GIS environment for the production of the 25K Topo DB based on Geomedia (ID’s, lifecycle, customized tools for 3D production). • Goal to extend this environment to production of the 5K Topo DB. • Revision of the process to generate data quality metadata – action still in process - ESDIN Quality Model will be taken into account. • ICC 2,5 K Orthophoto series • Exploiting the recently-updated GIS environment for the production of conventional Orthophoto series. • Time-to-market shortened: from 1,5 year to 9 months to produce 25 cm pixel orthophoto for whole Catalonia. • Researching how to improve radiometric quality OF orthophoto series.

20. ICC, Catalunya - Spain From May 2013 to October 2013 • News concerning quality management • Extending the ISO 9001 certificate to the production of conventional orthophoto series at any scale: • Working in the generalization process. • Goal expected for January 2014. • Finishing the first evaluation of customer’s satisfaction making use of direct interviews (new methodology, replacing surveys) • Corporative web workspace to present ISO 9001 QMS information using Confluence software - First results achieved: • Main ISO 9001 and Orthophoto department documentation published (manuals, workflows, indicators, issue tracking). • Goal: Extend the system to other departments & improve reports by generating on-the-fly graphics from available indicators.

21. ICC, Catalunya - Spain From May 2013 to October 2013 • Any other news that would be of interest for Q-KEN? • New post-graduate programme organized by and host in ICC International Course on Management and Applied Techniques in Cartography http://www.iccartotechnology.cat/ • Candidates for future presentations: • Evolution of the Catalan SDI (IDEC): From data accumulation to end-user services. • Conceptual design of a Multi-Representation Data Base (25K – 50K) for data management optimization.

22. Lantmäteriet, SwedenFrom May 2013 to October 2013 • News concerning Data Quality • Lantmäteriet is going on with the project to examine how consistent our data are in accordance to our specifications. For the six themes: Cadastral parcels, Land use, Hydrography, Buildings, Elevation and Roads it is now decided what to evaluate for two types for each of them. • Our old internal viewing system, AtoKaVy will be replaced with a new GeoVy from January -14. The new system will display the quality of boundary lines and points, topology errors (border between municipalities) and more. • The work with increasing the quality of cadastral information (completeness, positional accuracy) is still on going.

23. Lantmäteriet, SwedenFrom May 2013 to October 2013 • Any other news that would be of interest for Q-KEN? • Lantmäteriet together with the University of Gävle defined a method to evaluate delivered data according to the Abstract Test Suite from Inspire. A summary is now available in English. • The Government has assigned Lantmäteriet to analyse the requirements for having our geographic data in 3D

24. Nothing to contribute to the national report this time BKG, Germany

25. Proposals in Budapest for presentations at next plenary • Revision of the process to generate data quality metadata – action still in process - ESDIN Quality Model will be taken into account. • We have developed a generic model for the work on data quality • The model are incompliance with ISO 9001 Candidates for future presentations: • Evolution of the Catalan SDI (IDEC): From data accumulation to end-user services. • Conceptual design of a Multi-Representation Data Base (25K – 50K) for data management optimization. • ICC, Spain • Denmark • ICC, Spain • ICC, Spain

26. Proposals in Vienna for presentations at future plenaries QMS documentationusingConfluence software. Conceptual design of a Multi-Representation Data Base (1:25 K – 1:50 K) for data management optimization. BTA / BTU: Harmonization process for largescalestopographic data bases in Spain. Useof TASI thermal sensor in ICC - Applications. • ICC, Spain • ICC, Spain • ICC, Spain