Antti Jakobsson EuroGeographics Programmes Manager David Overton EuroGeographics

1. The European Location Framework (E.L.F.) How to Provide Geospatial Reference Data and Services for Europe based on INSPIRE Antti Jakobsson EuroGeographics Programmes Manager David Overton EuroGeographics Clemens Portele, Interactive Instruments Germany Jörgen Hartnor Lantmäteriet Sweden Olaf Ostensen Statens Kartverk Norway Arnulf Christl Metaspatial Germany

2. Key messages • The idea of the European Location Framework – INSPIREd by ESDIN • Reference data from the Members States and Reference Data Services needed • Co-ordination by European Organizations – Build on INSPIRE

3. Is there need to combine services for Europe?

4. 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.

5. How to be INSPIREd by ESDIN?

6. Proposed concept for The European Location Framework • Set of specifications for reference data and interoperability services • Interoperabilityacross resolutions, themes and between countriesfor topographic, administrative and cadastral reference data. • Reference data services implemented by the Member States (NMCAs) • Interoperability services by actors • Co-ordination by European organizations (e.g. EuroGeographics) • Funded by Member States, Commission and users • Community of users and other data providers, developers, service intergrators / GEOSS European Location Framework

7. The European Location Framework GOALS from the EuroGeographics point of view • The concept of reference data –concentrate on the main business of the public sector • Work together with other players to create the infrastructure • Concentrate on one reference data layer at regional level and derive small scale from it • Large scale reference data based on NMCAs distributed services • Create tools for NMCAs to provide the data; transformation; edge-matching; quality; generalization, security • Build the reference data that others can rely on (UIDs, quality) • Align other thematic data like ECRINS with it • Make data policy and licensing work • Build the community

8. Reference data • Reference datasets are a series of datasets that everyone involved with geographic information uses to reference his/her own data as part of their work. They provide a common link between applications and thereby provide a mechanism for sharing knowledge and information amongst people (FGDC, 2005; Rase et al., 2002) • It provides an unambiguous location for a user’s information; • It enables the merging (aggregating/fusing) of data from various sources; • It provides a geographic framework or context to allow others to better understand the spatial information that is being presented; • It is subject to a regular data maintenance regime; • It is provided from an authoritative source with a mandate, or responsibility, for it’s maintenance and availability.

9. Private Industry will do this, relax!

10. Reference data and services are part of the solution! Private industry Cartographic industry EO Web companies GIS industry ”the Cloud” Additional and Thematic data Service Integration User Application Meeting the user requirement Reference data Reference data services USERS NMCAs Other governmental agencies

11. Service Integration Additional and Thematic data Applications EG vision on reference data ECRINS Point of Interest EuroGeo Info GMES Reference Data Service Urban Atlas Navtech/Teleatlas EU Geoportal Corine Land Cover Reference data Services AnnexIII Reference data Google Maps INSPIRE Commission Service EG+National mapping and Cadastral Agencies Edge-matching service (EuroXBoundary) E.L.F Global dataset Yahoo Generalization process Conformance testing Quality evaluation service SEIS E.L.F. Regional dataset Reference data services (view,download) EGN+Address service Generalization process Conformance testing Commercial Service Integrators Joint services Quality Evaluation Members Master Sources Urban Rural Remote Topo + Cadastre Registry services Admin Hydro Transport Other Topo Addresses Buildings DEM, Landcover, Geographical Names, Ortho, Cadastral Parcels

12. Would it be nice if we would have standard specifications for reference data!

13. Scale 1:2,500,000 1:1,000,000 1,500,000 1,250,000 1,100,000 1,50,000 1:25,000 1:10,000 1:5,000 1:2,500 Level of details Resolution and Level of Details Target level of detail Global Target level of detail Regional Target level of detail Mountainous Rural Master Urban

14. The planned E.L.F coverage at regional and global level Not available Available 2011-2014 Admin available 2011-2014 Admin, EGM available 2011-2014 Availability to be agreed Note: Administrative theme covers the whole territory of France (including overseas areas), Denmark (including Greenland and Faroe Islands) Malta

15. And do you think this will work for me?

16. Benefits to the users Consistency between themes, so that themes can be used together in various resolutions; Better up-to-dateness and consistency between resolutions. For example feature that is present in master level will be present also in medium/small scales if it should be present according to selection criteria; Quality conformance levels and metadata enables users to ensure that their requirements are met; Maintenance of reference information in user databases. Unique identifiers enable change only updates. Reference data provision for European users including European Commission, Eurostat, GMES, EEA, Frontex;

17. Minimum INSPIRE implementation is enough! Why should we care?

18. Benefits for the producers • Cost savings in the national production and maintenance processes of European data; • Common feature type dictionary between resolutions enables use of generalization process in maintenance processes of medium/small scale resolutions which means better up-to-dateness and consistency between resolutions • Help implementing the INSPIRE directive • Implementation of interoperability processes including edge-matching between countries to achieve cross-border consistency, quality evaluation and conformance testing, generalization and transformation services • Increase usage of national data in services, European and global use.

19. 2011 EuroGeographics Actions • Discussion paper targeted to NMCAs/EuroGeographics role for panEuropean/cross-border SDI in INSPIRE • Launch of INSPIRE/ELF demonstration service under EuroGeoForum site (during 2011) • Launch of EuroGeographics WMS under EuroGeoInfo site (demonstrating the EGM,ERM,EBM and EuroGeoNames) -> INSPIRE conference • Setting up EuroGeographics project for E.L.F-> E.L.F task force (currently participating (BKG Germany,KMS Denmark,IGN France,Slovenia,Interactive Instruments,OGC,EDINA UK,Metaspatial Germany,Kadastre Netherlands,FOMI Hungary,Romania,Croatia,ADV Germany) • Prepared a proposal for ICT/PSP – EuroGeoCloud (26 partners) • Presentations on ESDIN results and E.L.F. at conferences and internal communication between members (GA, regional meetings) • Starting implementation of ESDIN results • Generalization EGM from ERM, ERM admin from EBM and EGM admin from EBM • ERM based on ELF specs in 2013 • EuroGeoNames based on new architecture and lauch in 2012

20. Internet (TCPIP) EuroGeoCloud GeoProduct Finder Other Applicationor Service Public Map Shop Crisis Management Support GeoProduct Finder Insurance Risk Assessment Service Industrial Risk Management Service Catalogue Internet (TCPIP, TLS), HTTP, HTTPS, SAML2 TileMap Service Download Service View Service NN JavaScript API NN NN EuroGeoCloud Data Cache Open Data Source Open Data Source Publication Data Meta-data Data Data Replication Service Internet (TCPIP, TLS), HTTP, HTTPS, SAML2 Download Service View Service Download Service View Service Download Service View Service NMCA 1 NMCA 2 NMCA 3 Publication Data Transformation Service Publication Data Publication Data Transformation Service Production Data Production Data Production Data

21. Ok this is useful stuff, who will decide?

22. You will decide! (Member States and European Commission) E.L.F./INSPIRE Agreement to co-ordinate pan-European/cross border activities for INSPIRE -> Faster process, use of MS data will increase -> Cost savings to the Member States both nationally and for the European use ->Users have quality data • No There is no need private industry will build the infrastructure -> use of MS data at pan-European/cross border case will be difficult or nearly impossible -> costs to MS will increase • No co-ordination EuroGeographics continues on pan-European/cross-boder INSPIRE with member states -> slow process -> no benefits to the MS nationally -> users have data but is it quality data?

23. www.eurogeoinfo.eu