REGNO 2007Norway’s Experience of INSPIRE Directive implementation

Magnar Danielsen

DirectorNorwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority

Cadastre and Land Registry division

Inspire principles

Data collected once and maintained at the level where this can be done most effectively

It should be possible to combine seamlessly from different sources in real time

Data should be shared between all sectors of government and between local, regional and national and European levels

The Sixth Environment Action Programme … requires full consideration to be given to ensuring that the Community's environmental policy-making is undertaken in an integrated way, taking into account regional and local differences.

A number of problems exist regarding the availability, quality, organisation, accessibility and sharing of spatial information needed in order to achieve the objectives set out in that programme.

INSPIRE should be based on the infrastructures for spatial information that are created by the Member States and that are made compatible with common implementing rules and are supplemented with measures at Community level. These measures should ensure that the infrastructures for spatial information created by the Member States are compatible and usable in a Community and transboundary context.

Inspire technical requirementsto Member States

Requirements to online web services� Metadata made available� Web map services WMS and Web feature

services� Transformation services� Download services

Geoportal – focal point - catalogue

Documentation of data specifications

Information about pricing and licensing

Mapping & Cadr. Authority

Geology

Nature protection

Pollution Control Authority

Municipalities

Ministries

Energy companies

Forrest and Landscape

Road Authority

County governor and other Regional

Authority

EU

Other private or public

Portal

The aim is to get easy access to the best available/existing geodata

- sharing and direct access – no copying

Geodesy

StaffInternal services

Director General

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12Regional Offices

Land Mapping HydrographyCadastre

Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority

Land RegistryPrimar

Stavanger

INSPIREand

National Spatial Data Infrastructure In Norway establishment of the NSDI and implementing

Inspire are closely interrelated In fact, as we see it:

Assembling the entire public geodata-Norway to one empire trough Norway digital is implementation of INSPIRE in practice

Instead of negotiating licences with each other, the authorities storing data of interest have signed up to exchange these data within Norway digital

The Cadastre is a integrated part of Norway digital By connecting the Cadastral Information system to the

national geoportal, we are a part of the INSPIRE vision

«Norway digital»

Distributed Distributed infrastructureinfrastructure

Unifying reference data Unifying reference data and thematic dataand thematic data

Partnership andPartnership andjoint venture fundingjoint venture funding

Covers local, regional Covers local, regional and national authoritiesand national authorities

Establishes a public Establishes a public limited company to limited company to provide delivery provide delivery services to non-partnersservices to non-partners - commercial and - commercial and - non-commercial - non-commercial

Deliveryservices

The public have free accessThe public have free accessto a variety of viewservicesto a variety of viewservices

Norge digitalt parter

Kommuner/Fylker

Public users

outside ND

The model

Extranet between partners

Free of charge internet solutions

Municipalities VAR

Commersial users

Norway digital

Counties

Government owned

company

Distributers

Partner benefits Access to a broad variety of geographic information –

data sets and services� downloadable datasets� web based services (wms, wfs, ---)� web services� quality control software� transformation software and services� tools for developing product specifications

access to the portal and all its services participation in the organisational structure participation in a variety of networks, e.g. technical and

thematic

User rights and ownership

• Full access to all data and rights to use the data in own task management - except commercial activity

• The “ownership” to data will remain by the partners making them or investing in them

Situation in geoNorge(a) discovery services (a) discovery services - several metadata catalogues - several metadata catalogues

(b) view services (b) view services - - >200 wms services with national >200 wms services with national coveragecoverage

(c) download services (c) download services - 210 000 datasets with reference - 210 000 datasets with reference data, more than 50 000 datasets data, more than 50 000 datasets with thematic data with thematic data

(d) transformation services(d) transformation services - available as web services - available as web services

(e) “invoke spatial data (e) “invoke spatial data services” services” - not implemented yet in the - not implemented yet in the

advanced – chaining – advanced – chaining – interpretation, will come in interpretation, will come in “geoPortal 2007” “geoPortal 2007”

Building a National Spatial Data Infrastructure

Political support is essential Support and involvement from the user

community is an important factor The technology must be based on standards

Technology and standards are available today to build infrastructures and portals

- basic technical interoperability is not a major obstacle

- but a national framework for implementation is necessary

Norway digital – status to day

• 40 national bodies (state agentsies)• Nearly all the Municipalities and County authorities• more than 100 energy companies

570 partners all together

And more to come

www.geonorge.no

Structure of the new cadastre

Basic cadastral attributes

Adjudication prosess

information

Cadastral map

Public imposition

Building Address

Owner

Polluted area

Cultural heritage protected by law

Cadastral unit

The new Cadastre - Architecture overview

Cadastre database

(Web Services)SOAP WFS WMS

Cadastre application server

Cadastre API

Municipal read access

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Public read access

Other public registers• The Land Register

• The Central Population Register• The Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities

• The Postal code register

• The Cultural Heritage Register

• The Ground Pollution Register• The Integrated Land Information System

External Cadastre clients

SOAP – Simple Object Access ProtocolWFS – Web Feature ServiceWMS – Web Map Service

The new cadastre Nov. 2007

ConclusionsNational Spatial Data Infrastructure Political support is essential Support and involvement from the user community is an important factor The technology must be based on standards

� a framework for implementation is necessary technology and standards are available today to build infrastructures and portals

� basic technical interoperability is not a major obstacle Leading and coordinating NSDI and Inspire should be carried out in one single office/

organisation

� this is the general setup throughout Europe

Cadastre Cadastral distribution systems must be bases on standards metadata catalogs is a not a overwhelming job to make lack of specifications of cadasterdata in Inspire is a obstacle for further development in

Norway at the time being

The INSPIRE answer in Norway: Making the Cadastre an integrated part of the NSDI