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ANNUAL REVIEW 2017
2 EuroGeographics Annual Review 2017 3
CONTENTS OUR
OUR MEMBERS 3 ITALY 34
MEMBERS
PRESIDENT’S REPORT 4-5 LITHUANIA 35
ABOUT US 6-7 POLAND 36
A FEW HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2017 8-13 PORTUGAL 37
MEMBERS’ CASE STUDIES ROMANIA 38
14-15
Our members are the National Mapping, Cadastral and Land
ALBANIA 16-17 RUSSIA 39 Registration Authorities in Europe.
AUSTRIA 18 SERBIA 40
BELGIUM 19 SLOVAKIA 41
As the official bodies responsible for national cadastre, land registration, geodetic surveying and
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA 20 SLOVENIA 42 mapping activities in Europe, EuroGeographics’ members fulfil an essential role providing official,
definitive and detailed geospatial information and services. These are underpinned by professional,
CROATIA 21 SPAIN 43
scientific and technical expertise and support a wide range of requirements for national decision
CZECH REPUBLIC 22-23 SWEDEN 44 making, including positioning, navigation and emergency response.
DENMARK 24-25 SWITZERLAND 45 By simplifying access to their data, members are driving applications to realise a wide range of social,
economic and environmental benefits, as well as quicker, more efficient, secure and reliable land
ESTONIA 26 THE NETHERLANDS 46
registration in support of an equitable property market.
FRANCE 27 TURKEY 47
GEORGIA 28 UKRAINE 48-49
GREAT BRITAIN 29 LIST OF MEMBERS 50-51
GERMANY 30-31 MANAGEMENT & HEAD OFFICE 52-53
HUNGARY 32 FINANCES 54-57
IRELAND 33
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PRESIDENT’S
REPORT
A society empowered by our members’ authoritative geospatial services
In an ever-changing world, Environment Agency. The aim is to make more national
EuroGeographics’ members play an authoritative geospatial information available through the
important and often critical role in European Commission’s flagship initiative for earth observation
helping to address the key global and monitoring, and our new Copernicus KEN is established to
and regional issues that affect develop this important relationship.
society, such as climate change,
sustainable development, a digital The importance of harmonised European geospatial data from
economy, migration, security and official national sources is also recognised at the global level.
health. With these challenges We are delighted that EuroGlobalMap, our open data which was
extending beyond national borders, society now expects a updated and enhanced in 2017, is being included in the United
borderless digital economy and property market, as well as Nations Second Administrative Level Boundaries (SALB) initiative.
fully connected national databases for stronger cross-border Internationally, we contribute to the United Nations Committee
emergency planning and environmental monitoring. of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-
At our 2017 General Assembly, our members set out a clear GGIM) and made a number of important interventions on behalf
strategic response to these important issues of today and of our Association at its Seventh Session in New York. We are
tomorrow, as well as critical applications required for the public also a permanent member of the Executive Committee of UN-
good. Together, we have laid the foundations to achieve GGIM: Europe, for which we provide the secretariat.
our ambition of a society empowered by the use of trusted In addition, EuroGeographics continues to provide a voice
geospatial services from official national sources. for members in the European institutions and, in 2017, our
European Location Services are integral to our future plans. activities culminated in invitations to contribute to European
At its April 2017 meeting, the EuroGeographics Management Commission consultations on both the Directive on the Re-use
Board reconfirmed its commitment to delivering this fundamental of Public Sector Information (PSI) and the review of the
resource for Europe by approving the programme of work and Database Directive.
investment required to develop operational services. In May, we For EuroGeographics and its members, 2017 was an extremely
launched the Open ELS project, itself a core component of this busy and productive year with our Association growing once
wider vision. The Project, co-financed by the European Union’s again as we welcomed Malta Land Registry and Registers of
Connecting Europe Facility, aims to develop pan-European Scotland to the membership. I am delighted to present this
open data services using authoritative geospatial information review of our joint activities.
along with an associated business model, whilst also respecting
EuroGeographics members’ national policy, legislative and
business requirements.
The European Commission and its institutions continue to have
access to our pan-European geospatial information and related
services through our agreement with Eurostat. Our collaboration
with the European Commission was further strengthened Ingrid Vanden Berghe
when we signed a partnership agreement with the European EuroGeographics’ President
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ABOUT US
Knowledge Exchange We offer standardised, transparent pricing and licensing
agreements, including an open data licence for our 1:1 million scale
EuroGeographics members place tremendous value on European topographic dataset, EuroGlobalMap which is produced
collaborating to find solutions to common challenges. This with support from The National Institute of Geographic and Forest
willingness to share experiences and best practice is central to Information (IGN France).
the success of our Knowledge Exchange Networks (KENs) which
EuroGeographics - Connecting you to maps, geospatial and provide an open forum for discussing issues of mutual interest. The development and delivery of our dataset of official
land information for Europe administrative and statistical regions, EuroBoundaryMap, along
The KENs organise a comprehensive calendar of annual events, with our 1:250 000 scale multi-themed topographic mapping,
including webinars, workshops and conferences, and also issue EuroRegionalMap, is coordinated by Germany’s Federal Agency
EuroGeographics is an independent international not-for-profit organisation representing Europe’s National a range of publications such as the results of research, policy for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG).
Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration Authorities. We believe in a society empowered by the use of papers and best practice guidelines.
our members’ authoritative geospatial data and services. European Location Services
EuroGeographics also collaborates with organisations beyond
Our strength lies in our extensive membership and we are proud to represent 63 organisations from 46 the national mapping, cadastral and land registry sector. This
EuroGeographics is working with its members to further
countries covering the whole of geographical Europe. We deliver benefits for each regardless of the includes those which have common interests, complementary
develop European Location Services. The goal is to provide
geographical, technical, political, organisational, linguistic and business parameters in which they work. expertise and programmes of work which support our members’
the single access point for international users of harmonised,
activities and promotes them to a wider, yet relevant, audience.
pan-European, authoritative geospatial information and services.
What we do These partnerships complement and add to the development of
The Open ELS Project, co-financed by the European Union’s
our KEN activities, bringing greater opportunities for professional
EuroGeographics supports the public good by representing our members’ interests, maintaining networks Connecting Europe Facility, is part of wider operational
development. In this way, we help our members improve their
that help our members improve their capabilities and role, and by facilitating access to and use of our European Location Services. It aims to provide certainty about
capabilities and role, and contribute more effectively to the wider
members’ geospatial data and services. By providing a single point of contact, we enable government, what is free, what is charged for and under what terms and
public good.
business and citizens to benefit from their collective expertise, products and services. conditions. The Project will also maximise the benefits and use
of authoritative geospatial information by making it easy to find,
European geospatial data and services access and re-use.
Representation
from official national sources
EuroGeographics is committed to representing members’ interests in the European institutions and
Facilitating access to and the use of our members’ geospatial
internationally to ensure that their roles, capabilities and concerns are understood. We are registered on
data and services is a core strategic goal of the Association.
the EU Transparency Register and are bound by its code of conduct. We are an observer organisation
We do this in two ways. First, we promote the importance of
at the United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management Initiative (UN-GGIM) and are also a
our members’ authoritative geospatial data and services, a key
permanent member of the UN-GGIM: Europe Executive Committee, for which we provide the secretariat.
strategic objective within our representation activity. Secondly,
We are a passionate advocate for European geospatial data from official sources. By providing a strong, we produce pan-European products and we are developing
independent voice, we support our members in making this case to their national governments, as well as European Location Services.
internationally through our networks and partnerships.
Products and Services
Our representation activity is based upon the principle of constructive participation. This enables us to
demonstrate members’ relevance by delivering value to policy development and legislative programmes EuroGeographics currently offers four European geospatial data
in those areas where they have a track record, significant expertise and a legitimate interest. products. All are harmonised to standard specifications, so users
can be confident that the information provided is consistent,
comparable and easily shared — regardless of its national
source. The data is updated annually and can be used in a wide
range of applications including analysis, planning and research.
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A FEW
HIGHLIGHTS
FROM 2017
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New
Visit to the
Spanish Cadastre
Members Mick Cory visited the General Directorate for the
Cadastre, Spain to find out more about its work
and discuss European Location Services, to which
Spanish Cadastre is an important contributor.
Applications from the Malta Land Registry and Registers of Scotland were approved by members at our 2017
Extraordinary General Assembly in May. As a result, we now represent 63 organisations from 46 countries. Products
EuroGeographics Data Producers met in
Collaboration and Representation November at the Directorate General for Territory
Portugal. The 55 experts from across Europe
EuroGeographics represented members at a number of international and regional events: discussed the achievements, progress, working
plans and technical issues related to creation of
• Delegates discussed data quality and usability at our joint international workshop with EuroSDR and
Ordnance Survey Contributing to our pan-European products.
• EuroGeographics joined 100 delegates from 15 countries at the 10th Regional conference for Cadastre UN Boundary
•
and Spatial Data Infrastructure in Skopje, FYRO Macedonia
Our President Ingrid Vanden Berghe joined Kristian Moller, Director General, Agency for Data Supply
Information Initiative
and Efficiency, Denmark to chair a workshop on NMGAs in a digital economy at the 2017 Cambridge
Conference, an international meeting organised by Ordnance Survey Great Britain
We announced that harmonised European open
• Our Secretary General and Executive Director Mick Cory gave the opening address at the VIII Iberian data from official national sources is to be included
Conference on Spatial Data Infrastructures (JIIDE) and the II National Meeting on Infrastructures for in the United Nations Second Administrative Level
Geographical Information (ENIIG) which took place in Lisbon, Portugal on 15 November 2017 Boundaries (SALB) initiative. General Assembly
Our Strategy for 2017-2020 was unanimously
Visit to the State approved by members.
Committee on Colin Bray, Chief Executive Officer & Chief
Survey Officer, Ordnance Survey Ireland and
United Nations Property of the Amalia Velasco Martín-Varés, International Affairs
Representation Republic of Belarus Coordinator, Spanish Directorate General for
Cadastre were elected to our Management Board.
It was an honour to join the hosts of our 2017
We continue to contribute to the United We were delighted to visit and find out more about General Assembly, the Federal Office for Metrology
Nations Committee of Experts on Global the work of the State Committee on Property of and Survey (BEV) for celebrations marking 200
Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) the Republic of Belarus. Discussions focused on Years of Cadastre in Austria and the countries of
and made a number of important interventions closer cooperation including the provision of data the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. We
on behalf of our Association at its Seventh and participation in our Knowledge Exchange were also pleased to participate in the Common
Session in New York. Networks (KENs). Vision Conference.
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Participating in Group
on Earth Observation
(GEO)
EuroGeographics was recognised as a Participating
Organisation in the Group on Earth Observations
(GEO). We hope to develop our collaboration with the
earth observation community by acting as the interface
between GEO and the European National Mapping,
Cadastral and Land Registration Authorities.
Cooperation with the European Environment Agency
Knowledge Exchange
Our cooperation agreement with the European Environment Agency (EEA) signals a commitment to make more national
Joint Cadastre and authoritative geospatial information available through Copernicus, the European Commission’s flagship initiative for earth
observation and monitoring. The newly-created Copernicus Knowledge Exchange Network (CoKEN) builds on this partnership.
Land Registration The Quality Knowledge Exchange Network (QKEN)
marked its 20th anniversary during its Plenary hosted
workshop, Lausenne, by Germany’s Federal Agency for Cartography and
Geodesy (BKG).
Switzerland
A successful workshop was held in November on
the challenges and opportunities of land use and European Location Services
Our President, Ingrid Vanden Berghe gave the cover products was organised by our INSPIRE KEN,
welcome address at the joint CLR KEN and UNECE the EEA and EuroSDR. Delegates focused on sharing
WPLA workshop in Lausanne Switzerland. Discussions knowledge, experience and research to help fulfil user European Location Services Programme Management arrangements were put into place, and agreed by the
focused on the importance of stable and efficient requirements and legal obligations. Management Board. The ELF project completed its project work and handed over ownership to EuroGeographics. In
systems of land administration, the challenges and March, Mick Cory was joined by Haico Van der Vegt from Kadaster to speak about the journey to European Location
The Copernicus Knowledge Exchange Network (CoKEN)
opportunities presented by the digital age, and the Services at a joint meeting of National Mapping Authorities and National Statistical Institutes hosted by Eurostat.
was formally established, and held its first meeting in
needs, developments and opportunities arising from
December in Brussels.
the third dimension. The Open ELS Project, co-financed by the European Union’s Connecting Europe Facility, was launched in May 2017. By
the end of the year research by the Open ELS Project revealed that open data is available from most European NMCAs.
The survey found that that 98% of respondents provide at least some of their data free of charge and, of these, 37% make
all their data available under an open licence.
Sustainable
Development
Goals and Land
Administration Marine Updated Open Data
Cadastre Report
Users of our pan-European open data benefit from
At the 10th session of the UNECE Working Party for
a series of enhancements to EuroGlobalMap. Three
Land Administration (WPLA), Mick Cory and Dr Daniel Our joint report on Marine Cadastre, commissioned
themes are now generalised from our more detailed
Steudler, Chair of the Cadastre and Land Registry KEN with our Common Vision partners, CLGE, ELRA,
products, giving even greater confidence that the
called for further work on the impact of the Sustainable EULIS and PCC, was published. The objective is
information provided is consistent, comparable and
Development Goals (SDGs) on cadastre and land to raise awareness and trigger discussions about
easily shared.
registries in Europe. potential benefits in Europe’s Blue Economy.
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MEMBERS’
CASE STUDIES
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Albania
Albania marks major milestone with Albania enhances property
development of national geoportal data and modernises registration services
Delivering an The portal, https://geoportal.asig.gov. ASIG is also responsible for drafting
Albania’s Central More than 2,680 cadastral zones from phase before being passed to the data
al, is a crucial step in the development geoinformation standards, which are a total of just over 3,000 have been quality team. The Improvement, Update
INSPIRE compliant of a sustainable, modern and efficient based on those of INSPIRE. During 2017, Office of Immovable completed so far. In addition, IPRO and First Registration Project is being
national geoportal National Spatial Data Infrastructure it prepared standards for the themes on Property Registration has developed and improved funded by revenue generated from
(NSDI). It enables search, view, download, transport network, geology, elevation, working procedures, quality control, IPRO services. Each cadastral zone is
was a significant and transformation services which meet orthoimagery, Coordinate Reference (IPRO) continues product standards, and has been allocated specialists including a lawyer
achievement ISO and OGC standards. Systems, protected sites, land use, and its commitment to continuously training its staff to deliver and a cartographer.
geographical grid systems. this priority activity.
for Albania’s Public users can freely access 85 completing the IPRO is one of a number of organisations
datasets, such as orthoimagery, cadastre, Large-scale digital maps for the main IPRO has also started a digitisation in the Western Balkans working with
State Authority infrastructure, protected areas, land economic area of Albania, Tirana-Durres
first systematic project to enhance data from 1995 to Kadaster, The Netherlands’ Cadastre,
for Geospatial use and geology. The user-friendly are being created through a joint registration of 2000 which is held in its maps and Land Registry and Mapping Agency as
Information (ASIG) design also includes tools for creating
and editing geospatial data, a 3D Map
agreement with Japan International
Cooperation Agency (JICA). They will
immovable property registers. The process involves improving
and updating the immovable property
part of a project to modernise services
in the region. The participants aim
in 2017. Viewer, thematic maps and a multi- be shared with local authorities and the in the electronic registry with data on 556,200 properties to strengthen their institutional
functional search. The development public through the national geoportal.
title registry. in 180 cadastral zones, completing the and organisational capacity as
of the geoportal was made possible process of initial registration of 168,000 service providers.
thanks to a donation from the Norwegian In addition, rhe project, the Geospatial real estate properties in 23 urban
Government through Kartverket, the Information for Sustainable Territorial cadastral zones, and creating a digital IPRO hosted the first project workshop
Norwegian Mapping Authority. Development in the High Intensity immovable property register for 724,200 in Tirana which saw representatives
Area Development of Tirana-Durres, properties in 203 cadastral zones. from Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina,
focuses on technology transfer, including Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo
hardware and software infrastructure, as During 2017, 61 cadastral zones were and Serbia join Kadaster to
well as training for ASIG employees. completed as part of the first phase with share experiences.
a further 32 completed in the second
Geoinformation Standards
The co-operation agreement between ASIG and JICA National Geoportal
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Austria Belgium
Celebrating the 200th Implementing INSPIRE through a federal
Anniversary of the Cadastre in Austria platform for spatial information in Belgium
The Austrian In Belgium, the
Cadastre celebrated federal platform for
its 200th Anniversary spatial information
in 2017. www.geo.be is
This jubilee marked a special occasion
contributing to better
for the Federal Office for Metrology and cooperation in the
Surveying (BEV) which commemorated
the history, evolution and importance of
implementation of the
the cadastre for the Austrian economy INSPIRE Directive.
and society.
In 2014, the National Geographic Institute
In 1817, Emperor Franz I commissioned of Belgium (NGI) began development
the military service to survey the entire of the federal geo-platform (www.geo.
area of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy be) making publicly available the spatial
and plot the boundaries of all parcels data and services from the Federal
in cadastral maps thereby creating the Public Services (SPF) and in conformity
cornerstone for the establishment of with the INSPIRE Directive. This has
the cadastre. The territory covered an and decision making at all levels of public been realized in partnership with the
area of more than 300,000 square the INSPIRE Directive. Both datasets recommendations. NGI also offers set-
administration and plays an important FPS Economy (Statistics Belgium), the
kilometres comprising over 50 million and services are documented in a up support and hosting of the network
role in the economy and society. FPS Finance (General Administration for
parcels of land. multilingual federal geo-catalogue, which services on behalf of the partners.
Patrimonial Documentation, previously
Continuous interaction with the land is national and international in scope, and
the Land Register), the Royal Belgian To ensure the geo-broker role, NGI has
The so-called “Franziszeischer Kataster” register ensures the basis for a secured accessible via www.geo.be.
Meteorological Institute, the Royal extended the partnership to a group
was finalised in 1861 and was the first land administration under the rule of Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, To allow the development of the geo- of experts of Spatial Applications Data
complete registration of every single law. The current Austrian land register the Royal Observatory of Belgium and platform, a partnership between the Division from the Leuven University
parcel of land in today’s Austria on is a digital public register documenting the Royal Belgian Institute for Space federal spatial data owners and NGI and a consortium of private companies
approximately 54,000 map sheets. All the location, the boundaries and other Aeronomy and the Belgian Interregional has been established with bilateral GeoSolutions/GeoCad. The federal geo-
the original maps are kept in the archives relevant additional information of nearly Environment Agency, which are all agreements describing the concrete platform become operational in 2017 and
of the BEV and digital copies of these 10.2 million parcels of land that can be involved in the implementation of the distribution of tasks, the data and is now looking to Horizon 2020.
documents can be obtained from the used online at all times. INSPIRE Directive and provide spatial services to deliver and the support
BEV Geodata Portal.
datasets covering most of the themes required. NGI acts as a geo-broker and
The highlight of the 200th anniversary
The Austrian Cadastre has developed from Annex I to III. is responsible for validating the federal
celebrations was a ceremony on 4
into an indispensable information October 2017 at the Festive Hall of metadata, datasets and services in
NGI is leading the work and is in charge
system with technological progress and the Austrian Academy of Sciences in compliance with INSPIRE. NGI supports
of the development and maintenance
continuous adjustments of the legal Vienna where around 250 guests from the partners in the implementation
of the technical geo-platform, which
framework contributing to its success. Austrian government, politics, business of the Directive by offering INSPIRE
currently provides a network of spatial
Today, it provides the basis for planning and science gathered with official expertise, and support through specific
datasets and discovery, viewing and
representatives from all over Europe. training, workshops, guidance and
download of services according to20 EuroGeographics Annual Review 2017 21
Bosnia & Herzegovina Croatia
Benefiting the public by delivering essential Continuing the modernisation
data and services in Bosnia and Herzegovina of the Croatian Cadastre
Data and services To provide relevant e-services, a special
An increase in The State Geodetic Administration (SGA) SGA has also developed a methodology
portal www.Katastar.ba was developed. is at the heart of this continuing work for the homogenisation of cadastral maps
provided by the This has been providing free access online transactions, to build an effective land management which originate from the 19th century
Federal Administration to information since 2014 and in 2017 a
improved cadastral system that contributes to the and are still in official use. Following
record number of 8 million views were development of society and an effective extensive testing using three types of
for Geodetic and recorded. Registered users can access maps and a new real estate market. transformation parameters; identical
Real Property Affairs portal services via the Web Map Services application for A joint information system, comprising a
points, existing geodetic records, and
(WMS), Web Feature Services (WFS) and boundaries of isolated areas, this has
(FGA) are essential Web Coverage Service (WCS) protocols. producing geodetic common database of the cadastre and now been implemented in more than one
to the infrastructure The system is capable of providing reports are helping land registries and a single application hundred cadastral municipalities.
payable services but all government for real estate data, was established
benefitting the general agencies can access the data at no cost. to modernise land with the Ministry of Justice. As a result, More than 55,000 geodetic reports
public in Bosnia administration citizens benefit from better, faster and are submitted in cadastral offices every
Working in a demanding and developing simpler access to land registration and year, making them the most widely
and Herzegovina. environment, means that the future- in Croatia. cadastral data through an online one- used product for surveyors. SGA has
oriented management and dedicated stop-shop. In May 2017, this service was built an application for establishing
The demand for better quality services, staff of FGA are well aware of the role, expanded with a new module for issuing and implementing such reports using
accompanied by greater accountability challenges and international trends in official cadastral documents. Geographic Markup Language (GML).
and transparency, lies at the core of land administration. With the support This is currently being tested.
public sector reforms and e-government of international partners, such as the
strategies. Customer awareness and a World Bank, the Swedish International
need for value for money are important Development Cooperation Agency
drivers for change within FGA. (SIDA) and Government of Norway,
FGA is improving the availability,
Continued implementation of the land
accessibility and efficiency of its
administration sector reform, and creation
service to the public, professional
of new client-oriented products, have
users and government organisations.
been facilitated by the new Cadastre
IT system. By formulating, establishing/ Data improvement to provide more
creating, disseminating and setting-up accurate and reliable real estate data
databases of harmonised real estate via a high-quality, timely, and easy-to-
data, data on property transactions, use customer service, is evidence of
address data and other geographical the continued development of land
information, FGA is progressively using administration to support the reform of
information technology to improve public institutions and European Union
services and transparency in the land aspirations in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
administration sector.
Cadastral map before and after homogenisation22 EuroGeographics Annual Review 2017 23
Czech Republic
Czech Republic completes
digitisation of cadastral maps
In 2017, the Czech The long-term aim was to combine demand for enriched cadastral content,
digitised records on ownership and up-to-datedness of the database
Office for Surveying, other material rights, technical data and and more precise localisation of
Mapping and cadastral maps from different sources in the real estate cadastre parcels.
one database. This ensures easy access Furthermore, it contributes to better
Cadastre completed to real estate information and smooth links between the cadastre and other
the digitisation of its and speedy registration of rights into geographical databases.
the real estate cadastre. In addition,
cadastral maps. it also promotes the use of cadastral The Office has been responsible for the
information in the geoinformation real estate cadastre, land registration
The milestone is the final goal in the and land surveying and state mapping
systems of public administrations.
transformation of the Real Estate activities since 1993. Priorities now focus
Cadastre and Land Registry. Digitisation of data is complemented by on the development of new electronic
the development of quicker and more services, new cadastral mapping and
At the beginning of the social and
efficient electronic services as well as new procedures for updating land use
economic transformation of the Czech
new applications. Approximately half of information, building objects, public law
Republic in 1993, the decision was taken
all submissions for registration into the restrictions. Linking with other registries
to renew the land registry, including
real estate cadastre are electronically to offer a wide range of high quality
the registration of material rights and
delivered, especially by notaries, state information to customers is also vital to
the multi-purpose real estate cadastre.
authorities, courts and banks. future plans.
Historical real estate records were used
together with information from historical Digitised information also enables
land registries and other sources. the Czech Office for Surveying,
Mapping and Cadastre to respond to
Cadastral map Digital cadastral map with orthophoto Original Stable cadastre map –
Imperial imprint24 EuroGeographics Annual Review 2017 25
Denmark
Modernisation of the Danish Delivering a digital foundation for growth
real property data registers in Denmark
The Danish Geodata Denmark estimates As a result of the open data policy, and both international and national modelling
SDFE’s efforts to make data easy to find, standards. Based on the experiences
Agency continues to that the value of use and combine with other data, the from the pilot project, SDFE will
play a major role in its open geospatial online portal ‘Kortforsyningen’ received commence full scale production
a record 4.5 billion data requests during during 2018.
the modernisation data has more than 2017. Private companies are now using
of the Danish doubled since the SDFE’s data in new and innovative
ways, and it is evident that geospatial
real property introduction of the information creates added value for the
data registers. open data policy users in many applications. Some recent
use-cases relate to buying real estate,
It is currently testing a new IT system
in 2013. renting city bikes, assessing the risk for
to support the updating of the new burglary, and illustrating the geospatial
The Danish Agency for Data Supply and
registers in the Danish Real Property distribution of tax rates.
Efficiency (SDFE) was established in
Data Program.
January 2016 when the former Danish SDFE is a key contributor to the Danish
In Denmark, a number of administrative Geodata Agency (GST) was divided Digitisation Strategy and is responsible
The Danish Minister of Energy, Utilities and Climate, Lars Chr. Lilleholt (centre)
processes ensure that property changes into two new and separate agencies. for the national ’Data Distributor’, a one-
declares the Danish Geodata Agency’s new premises in Aalborg open. Director- Use of SDFE’s open data
are consistent with building regulations SDFE aims to create a better digital stop distribution channel giving access
General of the Danish Geodata Agency, Pia Dahl Højgaard, is pictured right with
and spatial planning. Before a change Mayor of Aalborg, Thomas Kastrup-Larsen on the left. foundation for growth, not only in the to a range of interoperable basic public
can be registered in the cadastre, it must private sector, but also by freeing up data on individuals, businesses, real
be first approved by the municipality. time and resources in the public sector. property, geospatial data etc. The first
Within the Real Property Data Program, It is in charge of collecting, managing service, Place Names went online in
these administrative processes will be and making available geographic and November 2017, and it is planned to be
modernised and digitised. The focus administrative public sector data to fully operational by mid-2019.
here is on being able to reuse data and Danish decision-makers, businesses
and citizens. SDFE has a well-established mapping
on being able support the municipality’s
programme with a yearly updating cycle
formal review of the case.
As part of a broader plan for open data for topographic information for Denmark.
Following the Agency’s move to Aalborg, within the Danish Digitisation Strategy, Creating a new digital topographic map
a significant number of qualified new all of SDFE’s data were made publicly for Greenland, however called for a
staff have been recruited and, after a available in 2013. In 2017, a follow-up different approach. In 2017, after three Distribution of basic data
focused training period, are already able analysis was carried out to estimate years’ intensive work, SDFE finalised a
to process many cases independently. the impact of open geospatial data in pilot project to map four areas equivalent
However, the casework time has not yet Denmark. The socio-economic value to approximately twice the size of
been reduced to the level of before the was calculated on the premise that it Denmark in close cooperation with the
relocation and work continues to improve generates both a production/market Government of Greenland.
services for users and stakeholders alike. and an efficiency effect. The analysis
estimated that the value of free and open The project had already delivered the
The Land Cadastre Project under the The Danish Geodata Agency moved
Danish Real Property Data Program to Lindholm Brygge 31 in Aalborg on 1 geospatial data was almost €500 million digital elevation models and orthophotos
November, 2016. in 2016, more than twice as much as upon which the topographic vector
estimated in 2012. data was produced. In parallel with the
data production, a digital geographic
infrastructure was established, based on Mapping Greenland26 EuroGeographics Annual Review 2017 27
Estonia France
Switch to new height system Reference datasets in France
simplifies cross-border projects in Estonia respond to public policy needs
Estonia is benefiting Following approval by the Minister of Preparations for using the Amsterdam
Delivering reference IGN’s public partnerships also extend
the Environment, the Regulation on the Ordnance Datum were thorough with to the fields of space and geoportals
from the transition Geodetic System saw Estonia switch an extensive reconstruction of Estonia’s databases to respond and in 2017 it signed several European
to a new height from the Baltic Height System (BK77) levelling network taking place between to the needs of public contracts related to space geodesy for
to the European Vertical Reference 2003 and 2016. Today, the network Galileo. In addition, it was entrusted to
reference system System (EVRS) which is used by many consists of 3,144 benchmarks, 4,238 km policies is a key provide new quality evaluation services
that helps to reduce European countries, including its of levelling lines and an average distance activity for France’s for industrial production related to
closest neighbours. Its introduction between benchmarks of 1.4 km. The Sentinel data and a comparative
costs, simplifies the not only benefits the implementation accuracy of the levelling network is National Institute study of Digital Terrain Model (DTM)
implementation of of international construction and ± 1.7 mm. of Geographic quality by the European Space Agency. 3D representation for a hydrology study
infrastructure projects but also the by the Hydratec start-up
cross-border projects management of pan-European spatial As a result of the switchover, the and Forest Visits to the IGN Geoportal, which
and enhances databases, data exchange and southern region has seen an average
Information (IGN). features in 10 major governmental
websites and now incorporates a 3D
navigation at sea as all nautical charts 15 cm increase in absolute height
marine navigation. and data of shipping routes of the Baltic with an average of 23 cm in the north.
This reflects user demand for less
viewer, have increased. To position the
These differences are due to differing Geoportal at the heart of the government
Sea now use a common system. generic reference data and
postglacial land uplift values. For information system, the infrastructure is
a requirement for more specific
Due to the transition, the Estonian example, Estonia’s highest point was being migrated to the inter-ministerial
reference databases.
geoid model also needed updating previously 317.2 m above sea level and is cloud web-hosting service. This will
with the new model, EST-GEOID2017, now 317.4 m. In 2017, the productivity of the Land foster mutualisation of public geographic
used for converting GNSS height Parcel Information System greatly data and services. In this spirit, the The Urban Planning Geoportal
values to EH2000. An online calculator improved and benefited from the Urban Planning Geoportal (geoportail-
is available via the Estonian National Ministry of Agriculture’s confidence. urbanisme.gouv.fr) gained momentum in
Land Board’s geoportal. IGN also worked in partnership with the 2017 by incorporating more than 3,000
Tax Administration, to approve the new urban planning documents.
technical basis for the convergence of
The IGNfab incubator continues to
the cadastral vector map and the large-
foster start-up innovation – from the
scale topographic database, and the
development of a hydraulic simulation
Road Safety Administration, with whom it
tool based on the IGN iTowns 3D
setup the national database of reference
platform to a platform enabling forest
points of the road network. The latter has
operators to find new wood resources. Producing the national Land Parcel
now ordered IGN to setup an ambitious
In addition, the Minecraft on-demand Information System (LPIS)
information system to map speed
service (minecraft.ign.fr), which combines
limits. In terms of future development
video games and 3D cartography to
of altimetry data, IGN has tested High
generate maps of the user’s favourite
Density Lidar data.
places, received an award at the 2017
International Cartographic Conference.
Estonian levelling network Height corrections (cm) for conversion Estonian geoid model ESTGEOID2017 The Minecraft on-demand service
from BK77 heights to EH2000 heights28 EuroGeographics Annual Review 2017 29
Georgia Great Britain
Implementing land Helping the UK become a
registration reform in Georgia global leader in geospatial
Georgia has seen role in significantly improving the mediation. Detailed statistical data is
Ordnance Survey (OS) By combining their geospatial and international engagement. Today OS is
coverage, completeness and accuracy available at https://napr.gov.ge/chart. property expertise, HMLR and OS are working with countries all over the world,
a sharp increase in of the national cadastre database by continues to deliver supporting and encouraging disruptive taking exemplar work and expertise
Activities also include a pilot project
land registrations as recording previously unregistered rural
for the systematic registration of land on its ambitious forces in the PropTech and GeoTech to support projects in several nations.
land plots. markets. The benefits of this investment From Smart City projects in Singapore
a result of ambitious plots supported by the World Bank. This strategy to remain at are expected to be seen across the to automated change detection work in
The reform, which has improved the covers 12 settlements selected by issue
reform implemented accessibility of land registration to and geographic diversity. A nationwide
the forefront of the legal, financial and property sectors, the UAE. OS is also supporting several
stimulating growth for the wider developing nations to enable them
by the National citizens across Georgia, is underpinned methodology and recommendations geospatial industry. economy and bringing more to realise the benefits from accurate,
by a legislative framework, technical will be developed using the analysis of
Agency of Public support and a new cadastral standard the results. The strategy focusses on three areas –
opportunities to the UK. maintained geospatial data. One
example is the collaboration with World
Registry (NAPR) to ensure the high quality of the Best for Britain, Global Growth and Fit for OS data continues to support the UK Bank to help build geospatial data
The reform not only supports
under the Ministry cadastral data. In addition to simplified
procedures concerning the legalisation improvement of registration and
the Future – which have been at the core Government in the delivery of key
policies and public services at every
expertise in Tanzania.
of the last 12 months’ activity.
of Justice. of land ownership rights, they also cadastre accuracy and coverage in the level of government. From the Ministry
provide a mechanism for NAPR to country, but also has a positive impact In August 2017, OS announced a of Housing, Communities & Local
All services within the reform are free for mediate in disputes and address for Georgia, contributing to the strategic partnership to help propel the Government – where OS provide
citizens with cadastral survey fees being the problem of overlapping of land efficiency and sustainability of land UK towards becoming a global leader essential location data that helps monitor
reimbursed by the Government until the boundaries. Enquiries and the collection administration system, welfare of in the land and property market. The the development of new housing – to
end of 2017. of documents from other administrative landowners, land market development pilot partnership sees HM Land Registry emergency services – where data
authorities are also done by NAPR. and economic growth. (HMLR) join OS at its Geovation Hub is used to coordinate planning and
The objective is to address the main and aims to encourage and support response to events, such as flooding.
legislative issues and challenges to To date, more than 400,000 land plots innovation and property technology
eliminate barriers to land registration. In have been registered and 783 cases businesses. Geovation is based at a The last year has seen OS support the
particular, the project plays an important have been successfully resolved through dedicated location-data lab in London Government’s Industrial Strategy, which
that supports and enables open aims to build a Britain fit for the future.
innovation and collaboration across Building on previous years, OS continues
many sectors. The Geovation mission to position location data at the heart of
is to expand the use of location and technology, innovation and infrastructure
land and property data in the UK’s projects. Highlights include: The Internet
innovation community. of Things (CityVerve) demonstrator
project in Manchester, embedding
Participants in the pilot programme geospatial and digital twin concepts
receive up to £20,000 in grant funding into the 5G initiative in Bournemouth,
and a range of resources and services partnering with Microsoft on machine
that will help them develop their to machine learning in geospatial data
businesses. Geovation provides the capture, and helping shape national
support that participants need, including infrastructure capable of supporting
access to experienced software autonomous vehicles through the
developers, geospatial expertise from E-CAVE project.
OS and property expertise from HMLR.
Business mentors are also available These tech and innovation projects
to assist with business proposals and are not just benefiting Great Britain.
investor relationships. but they’re also essential to OS’s30 EuroGeographics Annual Review 2017 31
Germany
Aligning German reference data BKG Germany fulfills INSPIRE Directive using
with INSPIRE Annex I data themes experience of European Projects
A transformation Germany’s Federal As a result, Germany met the November When implementing INSPIRE, BKG’s
2017 deadline for all European Union focus was not only on fulfilling the legal
specification to align Agency for member countries to provide their spatial mandate, but also on actively contributing
reference data with Cartography and data of the themes of INSPIRE Annex I in to the INSPIRE initiative with Europe-wide
a compliant and interoperable way. interoperable spatial data. The results
INSPIRE Annex I Geodesy (BKG) has of the European Location Framework
data themes has used its experience BKG has fulfilled this legal requirement (ELF) Project were taken into account
and implemented it for its own spatial and BKG’s implementation also used
been created by the of harmonising and data products. INSPIRE-compliant spatial its previous experience of harmonising
surveying authorities edge matching data is available for regional level of and edge-matching European
detail, (approximately 1:250 000 scale) georeference data for EuroGeographics
of the Laender of the EuroGeographics for the following INSPIRE themes: products, EuroBoundaryMap and
Federal Republic of products to Administrative Units, Hydrography, EuroRegionalMap. The benefit of this
Transport Network, Protected Sites, approach is that the implemented
Germany (AdV). comply with the Geographical Names and Land Cover. schema transformations can be directly
INSPIRE Directive. It is provided as open data by the BKG applied to both products, for which
Under the INSPIRE Directive, the German
Service Center via INSPIRE-compliant BKG is production manager. It will
cadastral and mapping administrations
target object is defined, accompanied The improvement in accuracy is an download services Web Feature Service now discuss their release as INSPIRE-
have to provide INSPIRE compliant
by a human readable and executable important step in the application of GNSS (WFS) and view services Web Map compliant European Locations
data sets which are usually transformed
transportation rule (HALE Alignment). technology provided by the German Service (WMS) from a dedicated area of Services with EuroGeographics.
from the original source data. Whereas
satellite positioning service, SAPOS. its website: www.geodatenzentrum.de/
the source and target models are well Germany: Integrated Geodetic
Today SAPOS, which integrates ‘cm geodaten/gdz?l=down_inspire.
defined, there was a strong need for Spatial Reference
geoid GCG2016’, can be also used to
a clear description of mapping rules
Professional understanding of determine normal height. The integrated
to transform the source data in a
official geodetic spatial reference in geodetic spatial reference is considered
harmonised way.
Germany has evolved consistently a basic infrastructure and part of AdV’s
GGP-Rahmennetz
AdV has created a complete, formal over past decades, with the “Repeated legal remit.
and executable data transformation measurements in the German main
specification to transform authoritative height network (DHHN)” in particular
data to INSPIRE Annex I data sets. contributing to new approaches.
The transformation rules are defined
Today Germany has established the
by the HUMBOLDT Alignment Editor
integrated geodetic spatial reference as
(HALE) Alignments, which can be
a holistic approach to the geometrically
directly executed or easily transformed
and physically defined components.
to other schema transformation tools.
AdV has placed this at the centre of its
HALE Alignments are used as a formal
product view and definition for geodetic
description of the transformation rules.
spatial reference. Special attention was
These are much more precise than the
also given to the quality assurance
Excel sheets which were previously used.
of the reference framework, which is
The transformation rules are interactively
realised by the unified field of geodetic
documented and published at www.adv-
control points.
online.de. For each source object the INSPIRE Administrative Units INSPIRE Hydro - Physical Waters INSPIRE Rail Transport Network32 EuroGeographics Annual Review 2017 33
Hungary Ireland
Hungary continues to benefit Ordnance Survey Ireland 2017 achievements
from access to national spatial data
In 2017, the Institute Since 2002, the operation and structures of the different land cover
The National Mapping
development of the Land Parcel categories making them suitable for
of Geodesy, Identification System (LPIS), an exclusive identifying different agricultural crops. Agreement came
Cartography (FÖMI) reference, land area identification The fusion of radar and optical data into operation on 1
and spatial information system for provided better results, proving that radar
was integrated into agricultural and rural development features can give added information to January 2017 and
the Government support, has been carried out by FÖMI describe the crops’ condition. Radar- provides Ordnance
and now its successor. A major task based information is also important
Office of the has been to prepare the system for the for other remote sensing tasks, Survey Ireland
Capital City of challenges of the 2014-2020 Common such as grassland monitoring, (OSI) with a secure,
Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform. Within identification of agricultural damages
Budapest, Hungary. this framework, the entire national and crop monitoring and will further
centrally funded
Now known as the Department of
system and its basic data were reviewed improve results. license agreement.
to ensure that the LPIS complies with
Geodesy, Remote Sensing and Land OSi CEO Colin Bray, General Manager and Geospatial Solutions Lorraine McNerney
CAP, keeps up to date with changes By enabling a platform approach to
Offices, it continues to deliver its with ESRI President, Jack Dangermond at ESRI’s 2017 FedGIS conference.
in the land surface and ensures the providing the public sector and academia
professional tasks and services.
enforceability of the policy. with direct access to national mapping, it
OSi hosted a series of training seminars
Income from national spatial data has is a vital step in realising OSi’s vision of National Data
As part of the consortium led by the explaining what Linked Data is and how it
increased. To enable bilateral exchange being the national providers of trusted, Infrastructure Strategy is constructed.
Ministry of Agriculture, the Department
of information, data has also been made maintained geospatial data and platforms
has been participating in a European The draft National Geospatial Strategy,
available free of change to a number
Union Nature Conservation Strategy
to ensure the State’s location data is easy
completed by OSi at the end of 2016, is
Tailte Éireann
of government authorities. In addition, to find, share and use.
Project. A precursory high-resolution to be incorporated into the overarching The development of the Conceptual
citizens can download two property National Data Infrastructure Strategy
ecosystem map was created with the European Forum for Data Model for Tailte Éireann, the
sheets each year at no cost. being developed by the Office of the
intelligent combination of national Government body to be formed from the
Geography and Statistics, Government Chief Information Officer.
Free instant public access to the Corine in-situ thematic and Copernicus land merger of OSi, the Property Registration
cover data. In 2018, the results will be
Dublin This is a very positive development, Authority and the Valuation Office, is
and Copernicus High Resolution Layers
via the Copernicus browser – www.map. enriched with earth-observation based Hosted by Ireland’s Central Statistics demonstrating a strong understanding being facilitated by ESRI Ireland and is
fomi.hu/copernicus – has been enriched information and used for the assessment Office (CSO) and OSi, the 2017 of the role of geospatial information expected to be completed in 2018.
to include Sentinel 2A mosaics, spectral of ecosystem services (MAES). conference showcased the benefits of amongst policy makers for evidence-
indices and water-logging frequency collaboration between the statistical based decision-making. ESRI FedGIS
Research into the use of radar and mapping communities, particularly
maps, with Open Street Map and archive
polarimetry for agricultural purposes Collaboration to record conference 2017
orthophotos as basemap. No registration in facilitating the development of
also continued in 2017. Polarimetric radar valuable decision-making tools. OSi
Ireland’s geospatial OSi CEO Colin Bray and General
is required to use the online service.
features are sensitive to the geometrical and CSO are working together to fulfil information as linked data Manager, Geospatial Solutions Lorraine
Ireland’s reporting responsibilities under on the web McNerney spoke at ESRI’s 2017 FedGIS
the United Nations 2030 agenda for conference at the invitation of ESRI
Following a collaboration to make
Sustainable Development. This was President, Jack Dangermond. Colin also
geospatial information available as
further endorsed by Lorraine McNerney joined Susan Gordon, Deputy Director of
Linked Data at data.geohive.ie, the
who presented Ireland’s progress at the the US National Geospatial-Intelligence
ADAPT Centre for Digital Content
Fifth High Level Forum on UN-GGIM. Agency to discuss how GIS is
Technology, Trinity College Dublin and
used to innovate and modernise
across government.34 EuroGeographics Annual Review 2017 35
Italy Lithuania
A new website to better meet Implementing the digital agenda in Lithuania
user demands unveiled in Italy
State Enterprise
A new e-commerce An interactive map on the geo-products
Centre of Registers
page enables users to visualise a low-
website, available resolution preview before selecting
(SECR) is contributing
in both Italian and which they want to purchase. There
to the implementation
are more than 362,000 items available,
English, was launched including 254,000 aerial photos of Italy of Digital Agenda
by the Italian Military taken between 1940 and 2010, 6,800
in Lithuania.
printed maps, 66,000 geodetic elements,
Geographic Institute 3,700 10 km by 10 km Digital Terrain
(IMGI) in June 2017. Model cells, 2,300 relief maps and 2,700 It is responsible for administering the
elements of orography. The website also Real Property Cadastre and Register that
offers atlases, books and all issues of the contains cadastral data on residential
Developed to better meet user needs, and non-residential buildings and
“Universo” magazine, which has been
www.igmi.org is accessible via desktops, The home page engineering utilities, as well as land
published by IMGI since 1920.
tablets and mobile phones. It features parcels. Information about engineering
reorganised and updated content to information, is prepared. The cadastral Lithuania is focused on delivering
The free of charge coordinates networks and transport communication
provide clearer and more accurate data is then signed with the qualified innovations and the transfer of public
conversion tool, Verto online (https:// is collected when buildings, structures
information. Professional users can easily electronic signature, automatically services into the electronic environment.
www.igmi.org/en/verto-on-line) converts and utilities are built, reconstructed or
consult technical sheets and metadata transferred into the Real Property SECR constantly strives to improve user
in real time the coordinates of the most undergo major repairs. The cadastral
for each product; a user account is only Cadastre and Register and stored perception of spatial information and to
popular reference systems used in Italy: data collected may be harmonised
required for purchases. in the electronic archive. The digital facilitate decision-making by citizens,
Roma40, ED50 and ETRS89, based on with the Measurement Code for the
documents replace millions of pages of business, state and municipal institutions.
ETRS89 and ETRF2000. Floor Area of Buildings prepared by
paper documents previously required Its aim is to create three-dimensional
the Council of European Geodetic
IMGI is now working to further improve to complete the process. Cadastral data models of buildings and structures on the
Surveyors (CLGE) and the International
services by developing new applications. for buildings and structures is used for basis of data stored in the Real Property
Property Measurement Standards of
various purposes such as mass valuation Cadastre and Register, and to open them
the International Property Measurement
models for the annual estimation of to the users with the help of electronic
Topographic map 1:25 000 scale Standards Coalition.
average market values, which are used regional geo-informational environment
coverage and technical characteristics for calculating taxes and other purposes. service at www.regia.lt.
The majority of surveyors in Lithuania
use the e-Surveyor advanced electronic The electronic system reduces costs
service developed by SECR for data and ensures the high quality of mass
processing. Using this service, an valuation results.
electronic file of cadastral data for a
building or structure, including spatial
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