Implementing INSPIRE services for Dutch Provinces

Implementing

INSPIRE services for

Dutch provinces

Herman AssinkGeospatial World Forum

Leveraging SMEs' strength for INSPIRE

May 16th 2013

Implementing INSPIRE services for Dutch Provinces

Agenda

� IDgis

� INSPIRE @ Dutch provinces

� Architecture of the solution

� Organization of the implementation

� Sharing and re-use

� Opportunities & barriers

� Triggers for innovation

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IDgis

● 6 employees → not small but micro

● Own products: WEB-GIS viewer / applications

● Custom applications / geo system integrator

● Working on SDI's for more then 10 years

● Won the INSPIRE tender of provinces

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INSPIRE @ Dutch provinces

● 12 independent provinces

● In Annex I Protected Sites which consist of sixdifferent datasets (Aardkundige waarden, Ecologische hoofdstructuur, etc.)

● In Annex III 8 INSPIRE themes, app 15 sourcedatasets

● Datasets not harmonized

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Architecture,merging 12 provinces

Validator

Harvester

Transformer &Loader Database

NationalDiscoveryServiceView

Service(deegree)

DownloadService(deegree)

CS-WProvinces Groningen

Friesland

...

WFS's of provinces;harmonized,

“flat” data

url's & revisiondate of WFS's

INSPIRE compliantdata structure

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View Service

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Organization of implementation

● Central team consisting of experts from several companies, managed by IPO:

● Harmonize / mapping proposals

● Support provinces

● 12 Provinces: providing WFS services

● IDgis

● Development of ETL components

● Establishing INSPIRE services

● lat/lon

● Development of deegree extensions

● Testing INSPIRE compliancy

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Sharing & re-use

● Presentations: GWF 2012, Intergeo, Dutch Open

Source GIS conference

● Use of about >20 open source products, such as

Linux, Nagios, PostgreSQL&PostGIS, deegree,

geotools, Dojo, Spring and other Java tools

● Central facilities for data & services of all provinces

● INSPIRE facilities are an SDI which is available for

other organizations

● Re-use of specific components, e.g. ETL mapping and

download

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Opportunities

● Gathering knowledge and experience as a SME with standards and tools in a relative largeproject

● Re-use of knowledge and components in otherprojects

● Open data

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Barriers

● Usefullness of Inspire data for nationalapplications (Inspire data is simplified)

● Many GIS clients not yet capable of handling of complex structured data (as defined by data specifications

● For IDgis: Finding good employees

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Innovation triggers

● Harmonizing data from multiple organizations

● Quality of Service requirements

● Complex data specifications

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Thanks!

● www.idgis.nl

● www.lat-lon.de

● www.inspire-provincies.nl