WS 1 – Sub national EU SDIs: best practices gallery and

WS 1 – Sub national EU SDIs: best practices gallery and criticism

Chair: Franco Vico

EUROGI- AMFM GIS Italia INSPIRE Conference, Florence

24 June 2013

Sub-national dimensions of INSPIRE

3 linked workshops

Focus themes: 1. How to promote data flow and sharing from local to regional SDIs 2. Examples of horizontal cooperation among regional SDIs 3. How to foster more effective uses of SDIs by external users

WS 1 – Sub national EU SDIs: best practices gallery and criticism

Geographic data sharing in Pays de la Loire

Catherine Chamard-Bois, CETE de l’Ouest

1. How to promote data flow and sharing from local to regional SDIs

The Pays de la Loire region

Attractive region in west part of France 3,3 million inhabitants 1504 communes 5 départements (Loire-Atlantique, Maine-et-Loire, Mayenne, Sarthe, Vendée) Regional capital : Nantes

The program GEOPAL

Geographical information actions Project contract between States and Région for period 2007-2013 For all the public sphere

Objectives

A change in pratices and culture

Convention

Métadata

Interopable Sharing Portal www.geopal.org

Success conditions : the climate of dialogue between actors and the respect for local projects

The town planning documents dematerialisation : A cooperation model

Reminder In France, the town planning documents (cf. article L121-1 of the Planning laws) determine the allowing conditions to : ● limit the use of space ● preserve farming activities ● protect forest areas ● prevent natural and technological risks ● plan economical areas and building plots according to present and future needs. Competent authority: the communes or the communes grouping Usefull documents for all developer contracters, like the departements and the states public services INSPIRE data: appendix 3

Harm

oniser

Specifications defining : Geographical objets to digitalize Digitalization methods Conceptuel data schedule

Co-produire

Mettre à jour

Process to control the first and update digitalization

Partager

Look for Visualize Download Deposit

Origin: State services and local services of Vendée and Loire-Atlantique began of 2000 Implementation: convention between 2 partners

Stake to come for putting in INSPIRE conformity :

INSPIRE Appendix 3

Mutualized action on regional level

Other treated subjects :

Biodiversity Wind energy Equipments receiving from the public Networks of drinking water, purification, rainwaters Littoral risks Weeding Plans

Cooperative updating of topographic data base in Emilia-Romagna Region

Stefano Olivucci***, Gian Paolo Artioli**, Giovanni Ciardi*, Alberto Fiore***, Marco Mondini***

* Regione Emilia-Romagna

** ANCI Emilia-Romagna *** Unione Bassa Romagna

1. How to promote data flow and sharing from local to regional SDIs

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Emilia-Romagna Community Network

• CN-ER main agreement – Among Region, Provinces, Municipalities and Unions of

Municipalities – Specific agreements and calls for co-financing – Community on Regional Topographic DB (DBTR)

• Updating of spatial data – topographic (DBTR), cadastral and land planning – guidelines and training for cooperative upgrade of some themes

of DBTR (buildings, roads, streets and house numbers), connected to administrative job processes (eg, ACI)

• Update support tools – Upload and validation services, ArcGIS DBTR Editor – Operational Support to Local Authorities by Region

Regional Topographic Data Base Data model, Rules and Validation

• Shared and standardized model – Definition of database classes – Topological rules and relationships between objects – Geodetic and cartographic Reference System

• Persistent identification – Adoption of Universal Unique Identifier

• Three levels metadata – ISO Dataset, update area, instance metadata

• Validation rules and testing shared – Validation Services on internal controls – spot checks on external controls

Regional Topographic Data Infrastructure

Local Backoffice

Management System

Regional Backoffice

Notifications

Update proposals

DBTR

Historical data

Topographic content

Metadata

Application System

Topographic Data

Warehouse

“Moka” Repository

Catalog

Validation

Raster/pdf

GeoDB

Moka Applications

Geographic portal

WMS/WFS

Downloads

Expert users

RER

CNER

INSPIRE

Non expert users

REGIONAL SDI

Unione Bassa Romagna

Topographic Data update inside organisation

Technology and innovation

Change management

Union Bassa Romagna - The initial situation needs a massive update: actors involved

• Municipalities technicians tasks: – Retrieve documents useful for update – Checks on data – Final validation

• Union IT Office – General co-ordination of the update process – Operational and technical support

• External service – DBTR update implementation

OK

Send proposal to Region

DBTR

Evaluate the proposal

Integrate the proposal

Data Manager

Verify update needs

Prepare sources and metadata

Transmits update request

Search conflicts solution

Certifies the update

Database Manager

Checks completeness of received data

Produce an update proposal

Notify integration success

Notify eventual conflicts of harmonization

KO

Notify the impossibilty of

integration Assesses the consistency of

the update

REGION

Cooperative updating of DBTR Data flow and rules

Francesco Tomaello*, Mario Favaretto**, Andrea Fiduccia**

*Regione Veneto **Intergraph Italy

1. How to promote data flow and sharing from local to regional SDIs

Planning data flow from Local to Regional level in Veneto Region

If we interpret ‘to promote’ as ‘to activate’ or ‘to foster’, then Veneto Region is certainly promoting a significant flow of territorial data by every of the 581 Local Authorities of Veneto towards the regional level. The tool to obtain this result is the Regional Planning Law n.11 of 2004, that constrains all the Local Authorities to produce their own General Urban Development Plan in a digital format, according to detailed and severe writing rules.

By the application of these rules the new General Urban Development Plans will turn into territorial databases, that will be validated by Veneto Region with a control procedure that has been activated since December 2006. Till the 13rd of may 2013 Veneto Region has validated the Plans of 267 Local Authorities..

Synthetic data flow scheme

The regional pattern of spatial data

1° field 2° field 3° field 4° field 5° field 6° field 7° field

set code matrix code theme code class code feature code underscore synthetic name

1 character 2 characters 2 characters 2 characters 1 character 1 character 6 ÷ 17 characters

ID scheme (max lenght: 26 characters) for all features :

2. Examples of horizontal cooperation among regional SDIs

The network of French Infra-National SDIs within AFIGéO

(“le réseau des CRIGES de l’AFIGéO) François Salgé

AFIGéO

EUROGI’s Vice-President

2. Examples of horizontal cooperation among regional SDIs

http://criges.afigeo.asso.fr/

French sub national SDI’s

• 2013 catalog of 56 sub national SDI’s – http://www.afigeo.asso.fr/documentation/publications.html?downl

oad=630%3Acatalogue_idg_integral_2013

• Since 2007, due to INSPIRE almost all French region have been developing their regional SDI – Behind each of the "identity cards" in this catalog, men and

women work daily to assist and facilitate the sharing of geographic information over their territory. By their actions, they help to improve services to policy makers and land managers, private actors and citizens. The “réseau des CRIGEs”, led by AFIGEO is the forum for consultation, exchange of best practices between these infrastructures.

French sub national SDI’s

• max 5-6 slides – speech duration 6-8 minutes

Working party

• 13 active members – Nord Pas de Calais, Picardie, PACA, Pays de

la Loire, Midi-Pyrénées, Centre, Auvergne, Bretagne, Languedoc Roussillon, Alsace, Bourgogne

– Nouvelle Calédonie, SIG 972 • Working method

– Monthly telemeeting – Annual conference (rencontres des

dynamiques régionales)

Achievements • Common specifications for Regional SDI’s

– Common definition of metadata and Interropérables catalogs – Visualization of common data – Compatible rules for downloading datasets

• Common functionnal analysis of regional SDI’s

Achievements

• The specificities of each region make the governance of regional SDIs takes different forms – Association, memorandum of understanding – Hosted by

• local government • local central government • Hosted by one member

– Public Interest Group (GIP) – Ad hoc

• Funding – Safeguarding FEDER funding for 2014-2020

Spain: the collaboration among Autonomous Regions in Spain for

Cartographic (OCCCA) and in cross-border field (OTALEX)

María Cabello*, Andrés Valentín** *TRACASA, Spain

** Government of Navarre, Spain

2. Examples of horizontal cooperation among regional SDIs

What is OCCCA? Informal

Organization

Collaboration

Autonomous regions

Cartography

Spain

Territorial Information

OCCCA - History 20

06 OCCCA

creation

2007

1st Congress

2009

Specialization

OCCCA - INSPIRE Working Group

• Coordinating Autonomous regions in the Directive Board of Spatial Information Infrastructure in Spain (CODIIGE)

CODIIGE Main Tasks • Inform EC about data and

services • Organize Iberian SDI

congress • Accept and monitor

execution rules

OCCCA activities • Providing regional perspective to

INSPIRE and LISIGE deployment

• Facilitating exchange of experiences and good practices

• Transferring to the Autonomous regions acquired knowledge

Other experiences

• Training environmental technicians

Cross-Border experiences

http://www.idee.es/web/guest/transfronterizo

OTALEX C

• 16 years working together

TERRITORIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL OBSERVATORY ALENTEJO, EXTREMADURA , CENTRE

YEARS PROJECT MAIN OBJECTIVE REGION (COUNTRY) N. PARTNERS (COUNTRY)*

1997-2000 COORDISIG Coordination of GIS and data compatibility

Extremadura (SP), Alentejo (PT)

3 (SP), 2 (PT)

2002-2004 PLANEXAL Addressing common planning strategies Extremadura (SP), Alentejo (PT)

1 (SP), 1 (PT)

2004-2006 GEOALEX Developing the model for Territorial and Environmental management

Extremadura (SP), Alentejo (PT)

4 (SP), 4 (PT)

2006-2008 OTALEX Creating the Transboundary Territorial Observatory

Extremadura (SP), Alentejo (PT)

5 (SP), 6 (PT)

2009-2011 OTALEX II Consolidating the Transboundary Territorial Observatory

Extremadura (SP), Alentejo (PT)

5 (SP), 6 (PT)

2011-2013 OTALEX C Extending the Territorial Observatory to the entire Euroregion Alentejo-Extremadura Central

Extremadura (SP), Alentejo (PT), Centro (PT)

5 (SP), 7 (PT)

* Partners from National, Regional and Local Administration

OTALEX C

MOST NOTABLE RESULTS SDI OTALEX MAP VIEWER

INDICATOR SYSTEM

SEMANTIC SEARCH AND VIEWER

INDICATORS HARMONIZATION

N. TOTAL

Territorial 34

Environmental 26

Social 20

Economic 8

Sostenibility 18

TOTAL 106

PUBLICATIONS: Atlas, Newsletters, etc

3. How to foster more effective uses of SDIs by external users

Catalunya SDI initiatives for medium and small municipalities

Jose-Luis Colomer Alberich Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya

3. How to foster more effective uses of SDIs by external users

Goal

• Foster the usage of the geographic information created by the Catalan administration

• Help the municipalities wanting to publish data in the Catalan SDI

• Help the municipalities in becoming familiar with the SDI concepts

Boundary conditions

• 942 municipalities in 32,000 km2

– 600+ municipalities with less than 2000 habitants • Enjoying a high degree of autonomy

– The SDI (and Inspire) is voluntary for municipalities

Support and convince by offering something simple and useful

GeoLocal

• A specific SDI for the municipalities that offers geospatial

services that can be embedded in the municipal portal – Joint project of the Catalan SDI and the e-gov organization

responsible for supporting municipalities

Free Platform of Resources of Geoinformation (PRG)

hosted for free by the Catalan SDI

The PRG: selecting services

Administrador

The PRG: how it works

The PRG Services (May 2013)

• Basic – Create and customize the geographic portal – View SDI data – Query MetaData – Search for addresses, geographical names, cadastral ID – Create, edit and publish own data – Official, Google, OSM maps and images

• Advanced – Create thematic maps from Excel – Create Atlases – Track mobile devices – Geocode

• Inter administration services (Regional – Local Govts.) – Report changes in streets, addresses and rural paths – Risk maps maintenance

Results (May 2013)

• 942 municipalities – 75% offer map visualization – 75% (534) of them use the

Geolocal viewer

• 125 municipalities are publishing – 4700 information layers

accessible through 298 WMS

– Ready for the SDI (and Inspire) concepts?

Plans for the immediate future

• Continue advertising – PRG in the home page of the Catalan SDI

• Continue demonstrating – Free access to demos and best practices

• Team with the private sector • Add more functionalities

– Go mobile – Follow Smart Cities

http://www.geolocal.cat/idelocal/cat/index.html

The Spanish SMEs’s role in the success of INSPIRE and its evolution

María Cabello TRACASA, Spain

3. How to foster more effective uses of SDIs by external users

GEO – ICT Sector in SPAIN

• Small companies

• Composed by young people

• Geographically dispersed

Involvement in INSPIRE

• Are SMEs aware

• Very limited involvement – lack of resources – Low confidence in INSPIRE and INSPIRE services – Need updated information

• High interest in INSPIRE

– Driving force of growth and innovation

?

How to promote involvement

• Collaboration: ppp

• Openness of data

• Clustering

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L Global scope • Tracasa INSPIRE • Tracasa LISIGE-SITNA • Government of

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TEC

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VEL State of the art:

• Data specifications study

• Layers and titular identified

Coordinating thematic working groups • Technical support • Training

DIS

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VEL Participation in

CODIIGE Regional INSPIRE Workshops Introducing INSPIRE to Policy makers Linking Open Government

Our Experience

• SDIC: SITNA & EURADIN • Testing INSPIRE specifications • Providing experts to Annex

II&III • Collaborating with INSPIRE

team

• Collaborating in National SDI WG • Providing experts in specific

themes and areas • Participating in INSPIRE

deployment: LISIGE

• Territorial Information System of Navarre – SITNA • Technical support • Training civil servants

Fostering involvement

Attracting SMEs to INSPIRE

Competitiveness Cooperation

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles

at it.

Margaret Fuller (1810 – 1850)

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Region SDI: regional SDIs

and Open Data local initiatives

Romain Buchaut CRIGE - PACA

3. How to foster more effective uses of SDIs by external users

GI and OD at the level of an SDI

The Geographic Information in the Open Data movement

• Data high potential – by the number and diversity of people interested

– by the prospects for economic valorisation

– by their interest "citizen"

• technical constraints stronger than for the "literal" data – infrastructure (visualization, diffusion) at calibrate

– tools specific treatments

A gap between policy-making and implementation

Geographic Information and Open Data in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur

A former Geomatics network (20 years) and the first french regional SDI created in 2002: the CRIGE-PACA : • a network of over 1 500 structures and 3 000 users • 9 "Thematic Clusters", 30 Working Groups and 500

active participants • a inspire-compatible geoportal the projects / actions around the Open Data : • examples of "coproduction and geo-collaboration” • with outreach initiatives and popularization of the use of the regional SDI, • both by external users (professional, private companies and and citizens

in general ...) and through new • And in a context which now exceeds the professional world of GI and the

frame of INSPIRE, it's that of public open data.

to develop interfaces between the regional SDI and Open Data local initiatives …

• the dissemination of Open Geographic Data via the regional geoportal of CRIGE (www.crige-paca.org ) in interacting with the Open Data regional portal (http://opendata.regionpaca.fr )

• the current problematic on the diffusion of diffusion of

many voluminous data "at everybody” • the development of a partnership CRIGE / OSM on 3 areas of work:

data, (geo)collaborative tools and the Infrastructure : of the "cooperative free map” at the "geo-collaborative coproduction”

… for all data with geographic references in order to facilitate cataloguing, diffusion and reuse of data :

the second field of investigation : the use and implementation of innovative applications ...

• the making available of apps used by OSM to supply, administer and manage the "map” and reuse tools (API) for the geomatics professional sphere in the “Thematic Clusters” and WG of CRIGE

• the dissemination of the CRIGE collaborative framework

(tools, collaborative platforms, "Thematic clusters" ...) in the field of Open Data and crowdsourcing

• a database homogeneous on transport networks with a centralized

tool for all the producers (institutional, private or individual) : "PlaceToPlace" via API OS on the OD within existing collaborative projects of (geo)crowdsourcing and with the "Volunteered geo info"

… (and actions) using public and private data and therefore freely reusable (GI, INSPIRE, GNSS, GMES, Open Data, ...) :