Presentation at the smart location workshop, Trento, Italy, 6th March 2012

1. EUROPEAN LOCATION FRAMEWORK (E.L.F.)
Antti Jakobsson Programmes Manager, EuroGeographics
The Smart Location WS Trento, Italy 6th March 2012

2. What is EuroGeographics?
• A not-for profit international
association under Belgium law
(AISBL)
• 56 national mapping, land
registry and cadastral agencies
in 45 European Countries
• Working to bring interoperable
European geospatial reference
data for the benefit of society
• A distributed head-office of 10
people

3. The European Location
Framework is a technical
infrastructure which delivers
authoritative, interoperable,
cross-border geospatial
reference data for analysing
and understanding
information connected to
places and features
Picture: Virginie Luppens
EU Location Framework will provide the political/policy context to the E.L.F
BASED ON BEST PRACTICES OF NATIONAL MAPPING AND CADASTRAL
AGENCIES, INDUSTRY AND ACADEMIA

4. • Policy drivers
• eGovernment (Programme
on interoperability solutions
for European public
administrations, ISA)
• Digital Agenda
• INSPIRE
• GMES,SEIS
• PSI
• International (UNGGIM,
GEOSS)
Source: EuroGeographics
It is for EUROPE – JOINING NATIONAL GEOINFORMATION TOGETHER

5. IT IS LOCATION –
WHERE THINGS
ARE?
Locating and geocoding through coordinates, geographical names and addresses
(Geolocator)
Unique Indetifying of the geographical objects

6. FROM GLOBAL TO
REGIONAL –
CONSISTENT
INFORMATION AT
ALL LEVELS

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

8. Find and Access
• EuroGeoInfo service
• Statistics and
Coverage Maps of
data availability
• Updated annually
• Geoproduct Finder
concept
• Security
authentication

9. GeoProduct Finder concept
• Finding the dataset
• Bind the agreement
• Agree and access
• See video in Youtube
GPF Video
2015
2020

10. FROM REGIONAL…
- DECISION
MAKING AT
EUROPEAN LEVEL

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

12. Content and Services
• E.L.F Global and Regional
(EuroRegionalMap,
EuroGlobalMap,
EuroDEM25/30/60)
• E.L.F Admin Regional
(EuroBoundaryMap) and
National
• E.L.F international boundaries
for edge-matching
• E.L.F Raster Basemap
Service (Regional to National)
• E.LF Cadastral (Regional and
National)
• E.L.F Geolocator (names,
address and admin)
• E.L.F Hydro, Transport,
Buildings

13. The planned E.L.F. coverage at Europe 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

14. TO NATIONAL…
- AUTHORATIVE
SOURCES
Source: IGN Belgium

15. Developing Member States existing capacities
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16. Edge-matching challenge

17. Consistency of data
• UIDs, Quality and
Generalization
• EuroBoundaryMap data as
source to ERM admin and EGM
admin
• Selection criteria definition and
QA of existing products
• EGM generalized from ERM
• ERM hydro linkage with RDA
hydro
• ESDIN UID implementation
• Incremental updates

18. Trustworthy Quality Assured data
• EuroGeographics
Accrediation Programme
• Quality Assurance
Improvements of existing
products
• Quality KEN
• Implementation of ESDIN
Data Quality Web Service

19. Prototype MSs Reference Data Service

20. Prototype MSs Reference Data Service

21. Prototype MSs Reference Data Service

22. Prototype MSs Reference Data Service

23. Prototype MSs Reference Data Service

24. EDGE-MATCHED AT
NATIONAL
BOUNDARY, QUALITY
CHECKED,
IT IS A FRAMEWORK
IDENTIFIABLE,
THAT MAKES
MULTI-LEVEL
EUROPE UNITED BY
GEOSPATIAL
GEOINFORMATION
REFERENCE
INFORMATION
DISCOVER- LICENSE-
AUTHENTICATION-
ACCESS

25. IT IS PROVIDED BY
NATIONAL MAPPING
AND CADASTRAL
AGENCIES OF
EUROPE THROUGH
EUROGEOGRAPHICS
AND SUPPORTED
BY INDUSTRY

26. Example of the progress
Emergency Response Agreement
• Need to access available reference data from member states for
the GMES Emergency Reponse Service
• Agreement signed with EEA
• EuroGeographics acts as a first point of contact
• A network of contacts to be agreed with members for data
provision
• Target to be able to provide geospatial reference data so that
GMES emergency response maps may be provided withing 24-
48 hours from activation
• GMES emergency service covers 39 EEA countries

27. WANT TO HELP
US MAKE IT
HAPPEN?
JOIN THE
E.L.F
COMMUNITY

28. Together we are stronger
Working together we
can achieve much
more than working
apart
Thank you!