1.
HOW EUROPEAN LOCATION FRAMEWORK (E.L.F.)
RELATES TO EGOVERNMENT AND INSPIRE
Antti Jakobsson Programmes Manager, EuroGeographics
INSPIRE Conference 24th June 2012
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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
• Experience in making
interoperable datasets for 20
years

3.
What we have learnt in ESDIN…
Understand your users’ needs!
• In ESDIN we found important to understand the users’ process
• This understanding is best achieved by involving users to the
project

4.
Cross-border interoperability requires agreements with
many partners
• Data Policy is a key issue
• A harmonized policy is a
dream that can not be
achieved
• Modular approach to
handling licenses ->
GeoProduct Finder
• Resolve first policy then
technical issues will be
resolved
• Consider legal basis

5.
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.

6.
EO
UNGGIM
GEO UNGEN
GEOSS GSDI
EUROGEOSS GlobalMap ISO
GMES Global UN international boundaries
UN-SALB
OGC
UN Gazetteer
EUMETSAT EuroGlobalMap
EEA
Digital Agenda ISA
EUROSDR Eurostat
Europe INSPIRE CEN
PSI
EuroGeographics
Do we need to do something? European interoperability
EUROGI framework (EIF)
EuroRegionalMap
NMCAs
EuroBoundaryMap
National
eGovernment
Local
Geospatial reference data

7.
Why we need the European Location Framework
Today After
-Access to NSDI data is mostly national - Access possible for
-Only global players provide easy
access to geographic data
National, European and
-NSDI data is not used for the European Global use (E.L.F
policy decision making platform)
-use of INSPIRE data services is ?
-common tools not co-ordinated - SME applications easy
(Quality, Generalization, Edge- to connect
matching, Change management,
Visualization) - NSDI data is used for
European policy
decision making
- INSPIRE services
utilized
- Common tools (in the
cloud)

8.
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

9.
• 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

10.
Content and Services
• E.L.F Global and Regional
(EuroRegionalMap,
EuroGlobalMap)
• 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

11.
The proposed ELFI project
Project proposal send to the
CIP ICT PSP call
• 36 months project
• 30 partners
• Implementation of the
E.L.F
• Three phases

12.
The planned E.L.F. coverage at National Level through
proposed ELFI project
Not available
Phase I Global and Regional
Phase II Cluster areas / 15 data providers
Phase III New cluster areas /NSDIs
Note
Phase I covers also phase II
countries
Phase III covers also phase I
and II countries

13.
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

14.
How E.L.F relates to eGovernment and INSPIRE
• Most of the issues we have to solve at European level are similar
that have to be solved at National eGovernment level
• For example integration of data from many sources
• Quality Assurance
• Edge-Matching
• INSPIRE sets the basis but is not enough both at National and
European Level
• Need for co-ordination at European Level but also at national level
• Agreements needed both European and National Level ->
EIF/ISA/eGovernment

15.
Together we are stronger
Working together we
can achieve much
more than working
apart
Thank you!