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ANNUAL REVIEW 2019
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CONTENTS
OUR
MEMBERS
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Our members are the National Mapping, Cadastral and Land
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Registration Authorities in Europe.
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We currently represent more than sixty official government bodies responsible for geodetic surveying,
19 43 topographic mapping, cadastral surveys and land registration in 46 countries – from Iceland to Cyprus, Portugal
to Azerbaijan.
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21 45 EuroGeographics’ members fulfil an essential role providing official, definitive and detailed geospatial
information for the public good. These are underpinned by professional, scientific and technical expertise and
22 46 support a wide range of applications, including positioning, navigation and emergency response.
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By simplifying access to their data, our members are driving applications to realise a wide range of social,
24-25 48 economic and environmental benefits, as well as quicker, more efficient, secure and reliable land registration in
support of an equitable property market.
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A full list of our members can be found on pages and
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Navigate through the review by clicking the directional and home buttons on the
top right of every page, as well as clicking on the contents page sections above.
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PRESIDENT’S
REPORT
Data from official national sources is important because it
supports a range of legal, fiscal, security and other public
administrative purposes, and provides reliable, consistent
context and clarity to information about people and places.
In many countries, the cadastral, geodetic surveying, We must demonstrate its critical role in helping to address Working together, we can seize this moment to demonstrate
topographic mapping and land registration process carried key issues that extend across borders and require fully the benefit of authoritative, trusted information and raise
out by our members is enshrined in law with a public body connected national databases. awareness among politicians and policymakers of our value in
given authority for the task. This makes the data authoritative delivering better data for better lives.
according to our research with EuroSDR and KU Leuven. EuroGeographics and its members have a long, successful
tradition of working with the national statistical agencies. The case studies contained in this review of our joint
Our joint paper defines authoritative data as data provided Integrating our data brings context and clarity to information activities in 2019 demonstrate the great personal, societal
by a public body (or authority) which has an official mandate about people and places. This provides valuable insight, and economic importance of our members’ data. They
to provide it, that is based on a set of criteria to ensure helping decision-makers to ensure maximum impact in areas continue to fulfil the essential role of providing official and
known quality, and that is required to be used and reused by where action is most needed. This is particularly true for the detailed geospatial, or location, information for important
the public sector and society as a whole. United Nation’s 2030 Development Agenda which presents public purposes.
an unrivalled opportunity for us to promote the tangible
The importance of authoritative data has long been I would like to take this opportunity to thank our Secretary
benefits that together we deliver to society.
recognised at a national level and is increasingly General and Executive Director, Mick Cory, and the Head
recognised internationally, in particular in addressing In Europe, the new Open Data Public Sector Information Office team for all their hard work and support.
the United Nation’s (UN) Sustainable Development Goals. Directive, which identifies geospatial data as one of five
Finally, I would like to thank my fellow Board members, both
Together with our members, we are committed to facilitating ‘high-value’ data themes that warrant further regulatory
current and those who completed their term in October 2019,
access to it and to unlocking its value across the European action, creates many opportunities. We continue to work in
for their significant contribution to EuroGeographics on behalf
and international systems and integrating it into a sustainable partnership with members to explore how appropriate
of its members.
infrastructure for the public good. pan-European datasets can be made more widely available
to meet international requirements under terms that are free
Other sources can supplement, but not replace, reliable, for use and reuse consistent with the Directive.
comparable official data of verifiable quality. Communicating
the value of our information is therefore crucial.
Colin Bray
President, EuroGeographics
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ABOUT US
Our Core Reference Dataset (CRD) prototype, which was
Knowledge Exchange
developed with the help of BKG, was provided under an evaluation
licence to the European Environment Agency early in 2019. Change is constant, and our members operate in an industry that
Feedback has been positive, and we must now secure sustainable has seen radical changes over the past 20 years, with no sign
funding to proceed with full coverage. that such changes will slow down. We are committed to delivering
knowledge exchange activities that provide our members with
The Open ELS Project concluded on 30 April 2019 after significant tools to help improve their capabilities and role, impart
two years of work by the project partners. The test services their experience and learn from others. As a forum for discussing
launched at Geospatial World Forum in Amsterdam have played an issues of mutual interest, these knowledge exchanges demonstrate
important role in demonstrating authoritative open geospatial data, the tremendous value our members place in collaborating to
and we continue to explore how we might expand these find solutions to common challenges, as well as their willingness
Connecting you to maps, geospatial and land information in future. to share experiences and best practice. During the year, we
for Europe delivered a comprehensive calendar of events, including support
Representing members’ interests for cadastral and land registry activities in collaboration with
the Permanent Committee on Cadastre (PCC), and a series of
EuroGeographics represents its members’ interests internationally dedicated webinars on issues such as high value datasets,
in the European institutions, at the UN and through participation in
EuroGeographics is proud to be the voice of the European
Facilitating access to members’ data regional collaborative groups such as those in the Western Balkans.
INSPIRE and data quality. Our work with EUROSDR and KU Leuven
on authoritative data demonstrates how we work with strategic
National Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration Authorities.
Helping users to find geospatial information from official national partners for the wider public good and benefit of our members.
We bring together national authorities from the whole At the UN we are an observer organisation at the UN Global
sources is in the public interest and supports the public good. It
of geographical Europe in a unique international membership Geospatial Information Management Initiative (UN-GGIM) Our strength as an Association of member organisations from
is a key pillar of our activity. The membership map on our website
association. By providing a single point of contact, we Committee of Experts and the UN-GGIM Europe Executive across Europe lies in our ability to work together to achieve our
provides links to the national data available from our members, and
enable government, business and citizens to benefit from Committee. In August 2019, we were pleased to participate in shared ambition of a society empowered by the use of trusted
the case studies in this report demonstrate the value and breadth
their official, reliable, comparable and verifiable geospatial the ninth GGIM plenary at the UN in New York where we made a geospatial data and services. I look forward to this cooperation and
of our members’ activities.
data and collective expertise. number of interventions highlighting our members’ contributions collaboration continuing into the next decade and beyond as we
We also integrate and make accessible interoperable and our support for the Integrated Geospatial Information seize this opportunity to continue to contribute to the economy and
EuroGeographics believes in a society empowered by the use of pan-European geospatial datasets. These datasets are produced Framework, the application of geospatial information related to land society as a whole, for the wider public good.
trusted geospatial services from official national sources. To do this through a unique collaboration between our members, and the administration and management, and the importance of geospatial
we facilitate access to our members’ geospatial data and to data integration process we have developed is a particularly information and services for disasters.
pan-European geospatial datasets. As an independent, important example of international collaboration in the geospatial
international not-for-profit organisation which supports the public In Europe we have contributed to the legal debate for
area. By working together to deliver pan-European data, our
good, we also represent our members’ interests and provide the development of the Regulation on establishing the EU
members are demonstrating not only what can be achieved
forums for sharing knowledge and expertise that help support and through Europe-wide cooperation but also the benefits that result
Space programme and have participated in the public consultation Mick Cory
improve our members’ capabilities and role. for the wider public good.
by the European GNSS Agency on the Integrity and Reliability Secretary General and Executive Director
of Digital Maps for Connected and Automated Driving. We also EuroGeographics
Our datasets include open data, administrative boundaries, contributed to the review of the Public Sector Information (PSI)
Secretary General & Executive topographic mapping, a digital elevation model and a Regional Directive, and together with our members, we are exploring how
Director’s Report Gazetteer. All are created using official national geospatial data appropriate high value datasets can be made more widely available
from our members and are harmonised to standard specifications, to meet international requirements under terms that are free for use
During 2019 EuroGeographics and its members responded to so users can be confident that the information provided is and reuse consistent with the new Open Data PSI Directive.
the changing operating environment by agreeing to put data consistent, comparable and easily shared.
accessibility at the heart of the Association’s strategy. At their By providing a strong independent voice, we continue to support
General Assembly in Manchester, members also pledged to The EuroGlobalMap dataset is now also an open web our members in making the case for their authoritative data to
continue working in partnership to achieve the widespread use feature service produced with support from The National Institute their national governments, as well as through our networks and
of their data across the European and international systems. of Geographic and Forest Information (IGN France). The addition partnerships. In 2019 we took this message to DGI Europe 2019, the
Facilitating access to authoritative data from Europe’s National of NUTS 3 official boundary information in 2019 has enabled our leading global geospatial intelligence conference held in London
Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registry Authorities, is therefore small-scale data users to experience the benefits of integrating as well as to the European Forum for Geospatial Statistics (EFGS)
at the centre of the activities we carry out on our members’ geospatial and statistical information to identify trends and patterns. in Manchester, the Geospatial World Forum in Amsterdam, and the
behalf. It drives our representation activity and is supported by International Cartographic Conference (ICC) in Tokyo.
two-way communication through knowledge exchange and other We also enhanced our dataset of official administrative boundaries
membership activities. of Europe (EuroBoundaryMap) and our multi-themed topographic
mapping (EuroRegionalMap), which now includes data from
Ukraine. Both are produced by Germany’s Federal Agency for
Cartography and Geodesy (BKG) on behalf of our members.
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A FEW HIGHLIGHTS
FROM 2019
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Facilitating access Knowledge Exchange
to your data
We held a ‘Super’ KEN workshop following the Extraordinary EuroGeographics was very pleased to participate in the PCC Plenary
General Assembly in Romania
An active programme of events
You have consistently told us that knowledge exchange is a key benefit of EuroGeographics’ membership
and we continued to deliver an active programme of meetings, workshops and seminars. This includes
joint activities, such as with the PCC. The activities and plans of the Knowledge Exchange Network
(KEN) are widely communicated and circulated to members by providing a report prior to each of our
general assemblies in May and October. All information is available to members via the website.
Our Data Producers - A unique example of international collaboration
A unique example of international collaboration
Our data integration process is unique internationally, and a particularly important example of international
collaboration in the geospatial area. Our production teams are multi-national distributed teams responsible for
developing our innovative datasets and services. Their work is led from the Association’s offices in Brussels
and coordinated by production managers from Germany and France. Our 2019 annual data producers
meeting was hosted by the Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia in Ljubljana.
It was a pleasure to welcome so many
members to our 2019 Extraordinary
General Assembly
Delivering Extraordinary
pan-European datasets General
Members gathered in Manchester, UK for the 2019 General Assembly
Assembly 2019
To facilitate access to your data and demonstrate
its importance, EuroGeographics has continued
to maintain and develop its pan-European
Launch of Open ELS test services at GWF
General Assembly 2019 Seventy representatives from
33 member organisations
datasets. EuroBoundaryMap, EuroRegionalMap
and EuroGlobalMap were all updated during
Open ELS Project We welcomed 48 member organisations from 39 countries to
participated in our extended
2019 Extraordinary General
2019. Our portfolio also includes EuroDEM and the 2019 General Assembly in Manchester, UK. In addition to Assembly in Leuven, Belgium.
the Regional Gazetteer which was created as part The Open ELS Project concluded on 30 April opportunities for high-level peer-to-peer knowledge exchange, your To bring together KEN chairs
of the Open ELS project. The Core Reference 2019 after two years of work by the project discussions also helped to shape the future of the Association so that and members, we again
Dataset (CRD) prototype, developed with the help partners. The Open ELS test services, launched it continues to deliver value to all members. Members agreed that held a dedicated roundtable
of BKG, was provided under an evaluation licence at Geospatial World Forum in Amsterdam, have our focus will now move away from sales with a greater emphasis session. The meeting
to the European Environment Agency in early 2019. played an important role in demonstrating on facilitating access to your data. This will drive our representation was followed by a ‘Super’
Feedback has been positive, however funding to authoritative open geospatial data. More activity and be supported by two-way communication through KEN workshop to discuss
proceed with full coverage is still to be identified. information on the outcomes is available here. our knowledge exchange and other membership activities. mutual topics of interest.
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Representing your Representing your
interests interests
Active
monitoring
of European
Policies
The European Union is a
Our CLRKEN took an active role in the joint PCC workshop and plenary In Helsinki, Finland
significant influencer and
stakeholder whose policies
affect all our members’
interests. To keep you up
to date with significant
policy developments, we EuroGeographics Secretary General and Executive Director, Mick Cory makes an intervention at GGIM9
continued to provide you
with weekly policy news
summaries, policy news items
An active role in the United Nations
in the members’ newsletter,
tracking records and European NMCAs have an important role to play in UN-GGIM and, as
other relevant documents. your membership association, EuroGeographics is committed to ensuring EuroGeographics Management Board took part in panel discussions at GWF
Our policy knowledge your distinctive voice and interests are heard. In June, we participated in
exchange also included
briefing papers on the Open
the 6th Plenary of UN-GGIM: Europe and in August we were pleased to
participate in GGIM9 at UN Headquarters in New York. Mick Cory made a
Regional and internatonal Our President, Colin Bray spoke at the Twelfth Western Balkans
regional conference in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Data and PSI Directive, number of interventions highlighting your contributions and our support collaboration
meetings and webinars. All
information is available to
for the Integrated Geospatial Information Framework, the application of
geospatial information related to land administration and management,
The voice of European
members via the website. and the importance of geospatial information and services for disasters.
We participated in a number of regional and
international collaborative groups, including the
NMCAs
European Forum for Geospatial Statistics (EFGS)
in Helsinki and Manchester, the Twelfth Western Our communications activities have continued
Balkans regional conference in Bosnia and to embrace opportunities to promote the
Herzegovina, and the 29th International Cartographic importance of authoritative geospatial
Meetings with Conference in Tokyo. Members also took part in information to key stakeholders through events,
key European panels organised by EuroGeographics at GWF social media and face-to-face meetings. We
Commission 2019 and DGI Europe 2019, the leading global
geospatial intelligence conference held in London.
are also focussed on keeping you up to date
with the Association’s response to issues
stakeholders
EuroGeographics is committed to ensuring your Your Association actively participates in
distinctive voice is heard within the United Nations UN-GGIM and UN-GGIM: Europe
We have maintained our relationships with the impacting on your work through our members’
Group for Earth Observation (GEO) and EuroSDR. newsletter and letters from our President.
We have held formal and
informal meetings with Constructive participation in policy
a variety of European
stakeholders including DG
development
Connect, the European
Environment Agency, DG During the past year, we contributed to the legal debate for the
Grow, European Global development of the Regulation on establishing the EU Space
Navigation Satellite programme by submitting an information paper to the respective
Systems Agency (GSA), Parliamentary Committee. In addition, we participated in the public
Eurostat and the Joint consultation by the European GNSS Agency on the Integrity and Mick Cory was delighted to meet with Radu Codrut Stefanescu,
Research Centre (JRC). Reliability of Digital Maps for Connected and Automated Driving. Head of the National Agency for Cadastre and Land Registration,
EuroGeographics members highlighted the role of NMCA data at DGI 2019 Romania which was hosting the PCC Plenary
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MEMBERS’ CASE
STUDIES
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Albania Armenia
Albania improves geodata with new GNSS network Putting citizens at the heart of a more
transparent, secure and unified Cadastre
sustainability and quality coverage throughout
Albania is
Albania, each station is positioned no more
than 35 km apart. This facilitates the efficient Digitalisation of the
improving and effective acquisition and distribution of cadastral archives
GNSS data to meet the needs of users.
geodata by in Armenia is
As a result, ALBCORS improves the
launching a new coordinate assignment methodology using facilitating the
Global Navigation contemporary technologies and programs for creation of modern
coordinate measurements and calculations
Satellite System using differential and post-processed (or static online, streamlined
(GNSS) which measurements). High millimeter precision
levels in plan and height are achieved through
self-services.
provides the Real Time Kinematic (RTK) methods. For the
basis of its unique management of the entire system and its
operation, the software installed in the control
The work, part of the Cadastre
Committee’s five year reform plan, is a
three-dimensional center is GEO ++.
key component of the move towards a
point coordinates. The network was built with Albanian
more transparent, secure, unified and
citizen-oriented cadastral system.
Government funding according to European
standards (Eupos).
The Committee, which maintains around
With technical specifications developed 2.4 million records which are kept in four
by the State Authority for Geospatial territorial subdivisions in two buildings
Information (ASIG), the cutting-edge in Yerevan, is working in collaboration
infrastructure of the ALBCORS network with The Netherlands Cadastre, Land
ensures the accuracy, integrity, continuity Registry and Mapping Agency to develop Users of the simplified Armenian Real as forecast by the Cadastre Committee in
and availability of reliable positioning. a unified approach and tailored strategy Property Information System (ARPIS) will its development programme.
for digitising its archives. Archives are benefit by reduced working time, increased
By enabling the implementation and classified according to either addresses effectiveness and resource savings. The overall concept of digitised archives
maintenance of European Geodetic or real estate cadastral codes, or both. Furthermore, the work also reduces any includes professional consultancy,
Reference according to the INSPIRE In some cases classification can also risk of corruption by significantly simplifying particularly for development of unified
Directive, it provides the basis for be at the discretion of the relevant the information acquisition procedure and approaches to archive organisation
improving the basic reference used archive specialist. submission of applications. Documents can be and classification, and proper software
by all public and private institutions to obtained without visiting Cadastre offices for digitalisation processes, as well
support geodetic works, topographic Digitalisation will provide a range of as organisation and training on the
and information will be available
and cadastral maps, and scientific benefits from paperless self-services to digitisation of documents, archive transfer,
immediately after inquiry.
research in earth dynamics. It also improved efficiency. and classification.
offers an online service and enables By reducing the workload of employees in
Once completed, the readability of the
GNSS data exchange collaboration with the territorial subdivisions and front offices,
scanned documents in the archives will
neighbouring countries. system maintenance costs are significantly
be enhanced and the resulting online,
reduced. In turn, this contributes to the
The ALBCORS system consists of paperless self-service Cadastre will not
effective and efficient functioning of the
27 active stations, six of which are require direct contact from citizens and
Integrated Cadastre, including collected and
integrated from the previous ALBPOS officials as far as possible.
processed data accessibility for state bodies,
system. To guarantee network
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Austria Belgium
Supporting elections with geodata in Austria Delivering data for safer air traffic in Belgium
Created jointly by the Federal Ministry of The connection of all three registers via The main adaptations in the NGI datasets have The team is now working on a platform
the Central-Constituency-Tool enables the
The Federal Office
the Interior, the Austrian Association of
Belgium’s National
been twofold. For the digital terrain model, where information of new air obstacles
Municipalities, the Austrian Association of referencing of buildings where people the change in coordinate system from Lambert being planned or built can be directly
of Metrology and Cities and Towns and the Federal Office of who are entitled to vote are registered
Geographic 2008 + Ostend height to WGS 84 + EGM 2008 uploaded, an approach that the Ministry
Metrology and Surveying (BEV), the to constituencies and polling stations in was necessary. For the air traffic obstacles, the of Transport strongly recommends and
Surveying (BEV) Central-Constituency-Tool links together the the appropriate municipality. The central Institute (NGI) has addition of semantic information and a new even wants to oblige in the near future.
has developed data of the Central Electoral Register, the
Austrian Address Register and the Central
application gives an overview of the
progress of this process – every record
built on a history classification as well as an improved accuracy
had to be organised.
a Central- Residents Register and thus standardises and is comprehensive. of providing air
The database now counts around
Constituency-Tool simplifies the core process of elections.
Quality assurance procedures improve traffic obstacle 6,000 obstacles spread across the whole
based on the The Central Residence Register already
connects the attributions of permanent
the reliability of correct allocation. For
example, a multi-level process ensures
data by updating country, which have a height of 60 metres
or more above ground level. The newly
Austrian Address residents in Austria with the building data that the municipalities evaluate, complete its datasets structured dataset went into production in
and release the data before any election.
Register, the in the Austrian Address Register, a central
database of all addresses and buildings The data is then checked and released, to meet new September 2019.
Austrian Central administered by BEV and used as a first by the districts and then by the International The process of adaptation and compliance
to new standard specifications gave the NGI
reference for mailing, spelling, serial provinces who then forward them to the
Residents Register numbers and spatial location. Federal Ministry of the Interior. Civil Aviation the opportunity to simultaneously rethink
and the Austrian
the process and workflow for capturing and
Organisation maintaining this air traffic obstacle dataset.
Electoral Register. (ICAO) As a result, the NGI now collects and
maintains the air obstacle data completely in
specifications. accordance with the ICAO specifications. The
expected update cycle is 3 years.
The Austrian Address Register
authentically displays all the Evolving ICAO rules for safe air traffic
addresses and buildings as allocated by require digital terrain models and air
the 2,095 Austrian municipalities. BEV traffic obstacle data. The NGI was
is responsible for the administration asked to adapt the datasets to meet the
of the data of the Austrian Address electronic Terrain and Obstacle Data
Register. Federal laws apply to (eTOD) specifications by the Ministry of
nationwide elections such as to Defence and the Federal Public Service
National Council, President and to the Mobility and Transport in charge of aerial
European Parliament, while the federal navigation. This task started in 2014 with
provinces act under their relevant voting a study of the new legal and technical
legislation for elections to the provincial framework, and the eTOD project itself
parliaments, municipal councils and started at the end of 2016.
for mayors. Depending on the type of
election, different groups of residents are The NGI is responsible for the
entitled to vote. implementation of the electronic Terrain
and Obstacle Database, with the Ministry
The Electoral Register Law 2018 of Defence, the Directorate-General for
provides the legal basis for the Austrian Aviation and skeyes (previously known as
municipalities to integrate their data in a Belgocontrol) as stakeholders.
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Bosnia & Herzegovina Croatia
Projects deliver public services for New portals put users on the map with localised information
economic growth and social development
Working with other spatial data holders, the staff, the Sales Price Register (SPR) data
was published for public and other users.
Cooperation and
Federal Administration for Geodetic and Real
Property Affairs (FGA) is using standards, As a result, almost 30,000 individual New portals from
interoperability procedures, and policies to establish accurate, transactions have been displayed publicly
the State Geodetic
up-to-date spatial data registers. These on the FGA geoportal. Establishment of
is delivering a activities are making a significant contribution an up-to-date official database of address Administration
range of projects towards digital transformation, European
Union accession, and overall economic
data is also well under way. FGA now
distributes data for 23 of the Federation’s
(SGA), Croatia are
to provide public growth and social development. 79 municipalities with full coverage providing users
services in Bosnia with geospatial
expected by the end of 2021.
By the end of 2019, 1.9 million land
and Herzegovina. registry folios had been incorporated in
the electronic land registry thanks to the
Increased exchange of data via web
services with different authorities and
information in
systematic harmonisation of real estate data local governments is preventing data general and
duplication, the issue of incorrect data
between the land registry and the cadastre.
As a result of the project, funded by the World from unauthorised sources and helps to particularly
Bank, 52.9% of these folios are now based on clearly define the roles and jurisdictions cadastral ones
the new cadastral survey as opposed to 30% of public institutions. This not only
at the start. helps to improve the efficiency of related to their
Following the development of an IT system
land administration but also lays
the foundations for e-government to
location with a
used by local tax authorities and municipal benefit users. simple touch of a
button.
In June 2019, SGA launched katastar.hr
to provide information about land rights to
citizens and all interested parties. The portal When accessed via computer, cadastral parcels GeoHrvatska integrates and visualises
can be accessed on mobile phones as well can be found either by entering its number, the spatial data in six thematic areas:
as computers, and an English language by searching using its address or the name of Environmental Quality, Land, Nature around
version is available for users who are not nearest geographical feature, such as settlement me, Leisure, Protected Areas and Nearby
Croatian citizens. or stream, or by turning on a digital orthophoto. Pollution. The information displayed is
Once selected, information about the owners and interoperable and uses network services
The portal uses digital orthophotos, the holders is displayed with the possessors shown in operated by the institution responsible for
1: 5000 scale Croatian base map, and possessory sheets, maintained in the competent the data.
1: 25 000; 1: 50 000; 1: 100 000; and cadastral offices, and the owners in title deed.
1: 200 000 scale topographic maps. By The portal enables the user to use spatial
pressing the ‘Locate’ button on a mobile Official, up-to-date spatial data from public data in a simple, mobile and intuitive way
phone, users can get information about the authorities is also being promoted and made with an emphasis on viewing data for their
cadastral parcels around them as well as available to citizens through geohrvatska.hr. location using the ‘Data Around Me tool’,
the nearest cadastral offices, land registry Launched by SGA in cooperation with the National which shows the closest spatial data of the
offices and authorised surveyors for the Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) subjects, it aims selected thematic area. The system is fully
selected location. to increase the level of transparency of public customisable for mobile devices and has a
authorities by sharing and using the data. responsive design focussed on mapping the
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Cyprus Czech Republic
Delivering new levels of high accuracy Delivering the most accurate data
aerial photography in Cyprus available for the Czech Republic
Descriptive and qualitative information is ZABAGED® is provided to users as
Cutting-edge Positional obtained from the owners and administrators
of individual objects, or are collected in the
datasets and web services. Web file
services or web map services meet
technology is accuracy field by ČÚZK surveyors. How up to date this national specifications, as well as
information is varies significantly, however the standardised INSPIRE product
being used in refinements many datasets are updated and verified specifications formats. Derived and
a project to are ensuring in cooperation with primary object and
information administrators at least once a year.
generalised ZABAGED®-based 1: 50 000
and 1: 250 000 scale data is provided
provide new high even greater ČÚZK completes the revision of the entire as open data under the licence CC BY
precision and high accuracy of the ZABAGED® content over a four year period. 4.0. Following the new Directive of the
European Parliament and Council EU
resolution aerial Czech Republic’s The present trend in the Czech
Republic is to develop integrated
2019/1024, on open data, ČÚZK is also
preparing the publication of ZABAGED®
photography of most detailed geographic systems. ČÚZK strives to as open data, the first step being the
Cyprus. topographic develop computer-supported interfaces for
data migration between information systems
implementation of this Directive into the
Czech legal system.
database. of the public administration, including
online web services for delivery of updated
An agreement, signed in September information from thematic information systems.
2019, has seen the Director of the The Fundamental Base of Geographic
Department of Lands and Surveys (DLS) Data of the Czech Republic (ZABAGED®)
work with a consortium of companies, is administered by the Czech Office
Eratosthenes SA Greece, and Sintegra for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre
SAS France, to deliver the initiative, (ČÚZK) and originates from 1995 to 2004.
which is expected to last 12 months. The data that will be delivered will include the trustworthy applications. The Government It was created by digitising information
following: High resolution, 100% cloud-free fully supports these activities and believes from 1: 10 000 scale base topographic
The project involves the acquisition aerial photos and ortho-photos at an accuracy that sound spatial information is needed maps and, as well as position data. It
and processing of high-precision and of ±20-25 cm and 10 cm pixel size; Lidar data; for good and secure governance at all contains approximately 350 qualitative
high resolution aerial photographs DSM and DTM at 10 points/sqm in urban areas levels, and that it should always be attributes and descriptive information, and
and related data, using state-of-the-art and 5 points/sqm in rural areas; and contour readily available. altimetry models – Digital Terrain Model
equipment and software. The digital lines at 1m intervals. and Digital Surface Model. ZABAGED®
data that will be produced will be
is also the base source for positional
entered into the Department’s Land The new aerial photographs and related
determination of orthophotos together
Information System, and then onto the data will be combined seamlessly following
with the information system of the real
DLS-Portal and INSPIRE online platform, predefined standards. They will enable the
estate cadastre.
for direct use by DLS staff to satisfy Department to handle difficult cases from the
internal processes, by other government office, collect reliable cartographic data, and Positional accuracy of individual
departments, by private organisations significantly reduce fieldwork time. geographic objects within ZABAGED®
and services, and by the public. varies from 0.14 metres to 1 metre. Objects
The development of the Land Information
that are difficult to identify, such as forest
The data acquisition phase has already System and the National Spatial Data
borders, are digitised approximately using
been completed successfully. Data Infrastructure (SDI) is the foundation for
orthophoto and airborne laser scanning
analysis, processing, checking and the development of sound GIS systems for
data. The comprehensive refinement of
acceptance phases will follow in the other agencies and users with the aim of
position data will enable their positional
coming months. creating consistent spatial data, products, and
adjustment to the highest accuracy.24 EuroGeographics Annual Review 2019 EuroGeographics Annual Review 2019 25
Denmark Denmark
New National Data Distributor in service Improvement of information about the coastline
experience for handling the responsibility Only chartered surveyors can change information about improving the quality of
of the Danish society. During 2020 it
coastal boundary lines in the cadastral coastal boundary lines without any cost
The Agency for
implementing the Data Distributor, which
provides public-sector geodata as well as data
is planned to support the eIDAS
regulation, which will allow EU/EEA users
Increased use map. However, before a change can be to the landowners. The project included
Data Supply and from other domains. with an eID, to access data and services of the cadastral registered, a request from the landowner 41.1 km of coastline and 78% of the real
properties participated (135 out of 172). As
and a signed declaration is required.
Efficiency (SDFE) This one-stop distribution channel, gives
on the Data Distributor.
map also Furthermore, the landowner has to pay all a result, it is necessary to make changes
works to create
access to a range of interoperable basic
public data, ranging from information about
SDFE is committed to open data –
and has analysed its economic value,
requires quality the costs. in the Act of Subdivision if all coastal
boundary lines are to be corrected without
a core part of the individuals, businesses and real property, to demonstrating how open data multiplies improvements The Danish Geodata Agency launched accept from the landowners.
geospatial data on buildings. a test project in 2018 to provide useful
data foundation
the number of users and the value
for society. With the Data Distributor,
in terms of
for growth and
At the end of 2019, the Data Distributor
was implemented, and thereby went into
Denmark is now sharing the high quality information about
authoritative Basic Data available,
development operation. It marked the end of a challenging
providing the foundation for digital the coastline.
and exiting journey. The Data Distributor
in the Danish now allows public authorities, utilities as well
transformation. This will support
the creation of innovative and coherent
society. as private companies to centrally collect,
combine and apply basic data for the benefit
digital solutions across the public and
In Denmark, the coastline is constantly
changing because of natural growth
private sector.
and reduction. The Cadastre contains
more than 7,300 km of coastal boundary
SDFE is in charge of collecting, lines and many do not match the actual
managing and making available coastline. This is a problem for users of
public-sector data to Danish cadastral data.
decision-makers, businesses
and citizens.
Over the last years, SDFE has been in
a transition from a traditional mapping
Improving the Danish Cadastre by optimising data quality and use
agency to a data agency, recognising the
value of combining geospatial data with
In 2019, the Danish Cadastre took over the In February 2019, the Danish Geodata
other data sources.
One single
basic registration of condominiums from Agency received data for 337,199
SDFE is a key contributor to the Danish the Land Registry. The handover is part of condominiums from the Land Registry,
Digitisation Programme, and through the registration Denmark’s Real Property Data Reform, where and since then has registered 5,000 new
the basic registration of all real property condominiums. All have been provided
Basic Data Programme responsible for
the national Data Distributor. Providing
system for all real types will take place at the Cadastre as the with a BFE-number.
services for geospatial data has property. authoritative register.
Private licensed land surveyors prepare
proven to be a relevant foundation and
To meet user need for harmonised the data for new condominiums, including
property information that is available and changes to condominiums. They deliver
The Danish Geodata Agency has made
accessible via interoperable networks, a the data to the cadastral authority for
it easier to access and improve data by
new unique property identification called the registration upon scrutiny of the legal basis
collecting information for real property
BFE-number has been established and is used for the proposed changes. The data then
and condominiums in one single
in the property registers. This makes it possible continues to the Land Registry Verification
registration system. The move is part
to re-use data in the Cadastre, Building Loop to ensure that an approved and
of its focus on improving methods and
Register, Property Ownership Register and registered change will not be in violation
procedures to help ensure optimal quality
Land Registry. with a registered ownership or mortgage.
and multiple uses of the data.26 EuroGeographics Annual Review 2019 EuroGeographics Annual Review 2019 27
Estonia Finland
Improving data quality to support Finland’s geospatial platform enables
preparations for the 2021 census management of data from different providers
The census takes place in 2021 and will mostly been registered as a place of
The Estonian Land
be based on data from different registers. It is
therefore important for the data to be accurate,
residence, or the residential building
is no longer standing.
Finland’s new
Board’s Address complete and up-to-date. The Land Board is
All proven residential or work buildings
geospatial
Data System
collaborating with other institutions to prepare
by improving the data quality and efficient use
are assigned a unique address by the platform enables
(ADS) fulfils a vital of all relevant databases.
local governments who are supported
by Land Board specialists, its X-GIS map
the management
social function The Land Board helps to improve data quality application and photo warehouse. It is of distributed data
essential that the information is collected
sources with work
by providing additional information. This
and will also play includes updated orthophotos and linked only once and then reused, and to ensure
a pivotal role in data for other registers such as the register of that changes made in one register are now taking place
construction works, population register and automatically made in the other registers.
the forthcoming business register. to include 3D data
The Address Data System contains more
population and In addition, it is coordinating the efforts of than 2.4 million objects, including 1.1 and addresses.
local governments in improving address data million buildings, 526,000 apartments and
housing census. quality. In 2019, data for more than 60,000 692,000 cadastral parcels. For viewing
The three-year government project, which
objects, mostly the addresses of residential the Estonian address data, a new public 2 An upload service and life-cycle 10 New data download services based
was completed at the end of 2019, was management for municipal building
buildings, were fixed. This helps to eliminate service at xgis.maaamet.ee/adsavalik on OGC API Features.
a collaboration between the Ministry of information.
cases where a substation, shed or garage has was created.
Agriculture and Forestry, the Ministry of 11 A geocoding service based on
Environment, the National Land Survey 3 National INSPIRE implementations. addresses, geographical names,
of Finland, and the Finnish Environment cadastral IDs and map sheets.
Institute. The services are now available 4 A crowdsourcing application for collecting
at beta.paikkatietoalusta.fi. building entrances and waypoints, and for 12 The Suomigrammi Dashboard which
reporting possible errors. enables users to access, geospatial
The focus of the platform is to manage statistics from the platform.
the quality and lifecycle of distributed 5 National redirection service.
data from different data providers, such 13 An indexing service pilot to manage
6 National geospatial search using the buildings and addresses by
as municipalities, using common data
different names by which a place is
models as a basis. Data models are now administrative and statistical areas.
known as well as the contents of the
available for buildings, road network,
national registries which have been National Land Survey of Finland is now
hydrography and addresses, as well
implemented. It also supports general continuing the development of the
as a pilot for land cover and use. In
search engines such as Google. National Topographic Database and
addition, the Government has started a
the new address register which are part
new project to establish a new building 7 A table Joining Service for of the platform. A key target is to add
platform and register for Finland. edge-matching data.
municipality data, correct data according
The key services developed in the to the new data model and to create new
8 Data cards for geospatial names with
geospatial platform project include; 3D building data for all of Finland. This will
linked data.
be based on new laser scanning which
1 A quality guard which allows 9 New data viewing services: National Land started in 2020.
automated quality checking of the Survey of Finland maps with vector tiles;
logical consistency rules for municipal and national satellite mosaics based on
buildings and regional plans. Sentinel 1 and 2 images.28 EuroGeographics Annual Review 2019 EuroGeographics Annual Review 2019 29
France
An observatory for reliable
monitoring of soil artificialisation
A better
understanding of
the phenomenon
of soil degradation
and promoting
awareness of
these issues is the
dual objective of
the artificialisation
observatory in
France.
The initiative is implemented under the
supervision of the Ministry of Ecological
and Solidarity Transition, to which
National Institute of Geographic and
Forest Information (IGN) contributes. Anyone can access the information, which artificialisation covering the entire
includes a cartographic tool displaying territory with an update rate of three
The national biodiversity plan of July
binary artificialisation flows (artificialised/ years, at sustainable costs, and available
2018 has the unprecedented ambition
non-artificialised), computed from the land files as open data.
of developing an inventory of the use
of the Cadastre. Large-scale land cover and
of space and providing territories and Prototyping is underway in the city
land use data will provide better resolution
citizens with soil degradation data under of Arcachon in the Gironde with a
than the current land parcel, as well as richer
comparable territorial scales published deadline of June 2020 when national
nomenclature (beyond the binary). These data
annually. It also includes the need to implementation will be decided. The
will be available for download.
define the time horizon to achieve the challenge is ensuring that data meets user
objective of zero net artificialisation. To deliver the data, IGN is first building expectations, adjusting the specifications
a framework from existing data, which is to the definition of artificialisation, and
Within the Plan’s framework, the Ministry
updated regularly. Then, based on training producing data in the most automated
of Ecological and Solidarity Transition
data, a deep learning process is initiated on way possible from aerial shots taken in
launched a national reference system
orthophotography and satellite images. The 2015 and 2018, as well as satellite
in July 2019. As the display portal, the
multitude of objects detected, such as forests, images, through deep learning to
observatory of soil, managed by IGN and
meadows, buildings, parking lots and vines, achieve a partition of the territory into
other national agencies, provides data
will be distributed by land use classes through homogeneous plots.
to measure the consumption of natural
a vectorisation and aggregation process. This
agricultural and forest areas.
benchmark data will allow stable monitoring of30 EuroGeographics Annual Review 2019 EuroGeographics Annual Review 2019 31
Germany Germany
Enabling smarter farming in Germany with Delivering free, seamless, cloudless
open data satellite positioning service, SAPOS® mosaic images of Europe to the world
With the EU-financed Copernicus programme gives an impression of this new product
In Germany, the
and the corresponding open data policy, BKG which will be published in the first half
SAPOS®, the is now able to publish the derived mosaics of 2020.
satellite positioning Federal Agency for free. For example, a complete, almost
BKG will be continue to expand the time
cloudless and high-quality mosaic of Germany
service operated for Cartography in 2018 and 2019 from Sentinel-2 datasets series (past and current ones) of remote
sensing data in the future. Commercial
by the surveying and Geodesy is now published as a web map service
and shared on various platforms. The and open data will be used. BKG will
authorities of the (BKG) delivers high requests for this service are very high and still continue to keep its datasets and mosaics
as open as possible.
Länder of the quality remote rising; from March to December 2019, it was
accessed more than 8 million times with 430
Federal Republic sensing products Gigabytes transferred.
of Germany (AdV), as open data. In addition, the established process of
creating a mosaic from multiple satellite
is now available images is enabling BKG to produce a free,
Remote sensing through satellite
free of charge imagery is an important source and
seamless, cloudless and radiometrically color
balanced mosaic image of Europe as open
and being used method for specialised services provided data (data source 2018 and Sentinel-2 data
by BKG, such as surface models for air of the European initiative Copernicus with 3
extensively for
Tractors using SAPOS® / NRW
traffic control and landcover changes bands and 10m resolution). The picture here
smart farming. infrastructure basic provision and is part of the for spatial planning. These and other
satellite products are important
legal remit of the German authoritative survey
with AdV and the BDVI, an association of about contributions to issues of public
The 2017 conference of the agricultural 1,300 publicly appointed surveyors in Germany, relevance, for example civil security
ministers of the German Länder was the having an official agreement to use it. SAPOS® and environmental monitoring.
starting point for a new SAPOS® user group has been registered since 1997 and the brand is
BKG has established a process chain
and the demand for open data with the goal well-established nationally.
for high quality mosaics that allows for
to use SAPOS® for smart farming. As a result,
SAPOS® enables users to save a temporary the harmonisation of any optical remote
almost all German Laender provide SAPOS®
reference station to solve spatial reference tasks sensing data and for any area on Earth.
free of charge to the agricultural sector or as
more economically and efficiently. It is based This is particularly beneficial to the
open data for all users.
on a network of around 270 GNSS reference Federal Administration in Germany and,
In North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW) for stations which are operated by AdV. whenever legally permitted, for the public
example, SAPOS® became available as as open data.
open data in April 2018 and today it is used SAPOS® correction values are available to the
user in real-time and for post-processing. This BKG’s technologies and services
in almost 3,000 tractors. This is a significant
service is widely available with high reliability allow the production of time-shifted
change in user behaviour as the agriculture
and comprises three service areas with different data sets. For example, offering
sector starts much earlier in the morning User behavior / NRW
properties and accuracies: SAPOS®-EPS nationwide remote sensing data and the
and works even longer than the ‘classical’
real-time positioning service; SAPOS®-HEPS corresponding derived products from
surveying community. SAPOS®-HEPS allows a position to be
high precision real-time positioning service; 2009, 2012, 2015, 2017 and 2018. Due
determined with an accuracy of 1 to 2 cm
SAPOS® provides the official spatial and SAPOS®-GPPS geodetic post-processing to copyright restrictions, the first
to meet the requirements of legally secure
reference for everyone using modern positioning service. generation of these products could only
real estate surveys carried out by publicly
technology. The service is considered an be provided for internal use within the
appointed surveyors in Germany. Mosaic image of the entire Europe (2018)
Federal Administration.32 EuroGeographics Annual Review 2019 EuroGeographics Annual Review 2019 33
Hungary Iceland
Improving efficiency, transparency Iceland launches its first
and data access through e-services open Digital Elevation Model
Working with the Icelandic Meteorological The resulting country-wide DEM mosaic
but also to increase transparency through design must take into account information
High resolution,
Office and the Polar Geospatial Center, has numerous applications, from geology
automated decision-making mechanisms. received on the location and positions
Hungarian of public networks. E-utility enables
University of Minnesota, it has used new to hydrology and land management.
cadastre, remote Development started in 2019 and is expected this to be done electronically to reduce high accuracy techniques to integrate high resolution and The coloured image below shows
to finish at the end of 2022. The new system open Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) from an application involving comparisons
sensing and GIS is expected to start in autumn 2022. A data
administrative burdens and bureaucracy
that may limit business activities and
height data is the ArcticDEM, into new National Data, as between DEMs, resulting in maps of
professionals
cleaning program using artificial intelligence is
also included in the project activities to ensure
citizen requests. now able free of well as combining it with existing lidar data,
mainly from glacial areas. The methods
elevation differences. The result shows
the disappearance of the Ok glacier in
are delivering the creation of an up-to-date, reliable database The system is built on the registers of charge thanks to developed are highly automatised and use 2014, by comparing the ArcticDEM with a
e-projects to
in three to five years’ time. the public utility providers (about 900
electricity, hydrocarbon, water supply,
a collaboration adjustments of the individual DEMs, as well
as robust mosaicking of the ArcticDEM,
DEM based on aerial photographs from
1978. The glacier was defined as ‘extinct’
improve efficiency
E-utility is a national register of public
utilities implemented with web-based
drainage, telecommunication and district involving the to take advantage of the multi-temporal in 2014.
heating network providers) through data available. As a result, Iceland has now
and provide technologies, such as map visualisation and real-time Web Map Service (WMS) and National Land launched it first free of charge, high resolution Find out more at atlas.lmi.is/dem.
information to the
geospatial information supply. It enables the
reconciliation of data from public utility service
Web Feature Service (WFS) technologies, Survey. (2x2m), high accuracy (>1 m accuracy in
Public utility networks are shown on the elevation) DEM.
public through providers following official authentication at
e-epites.hu/e-kozmu. Following the INSPIRE
e-utility map interface, which is based on
Open Street Map, but also incorporates
the new Lechner guidelines, e-utility has been available to basemap layers from the land registry and
the public since July 2017 and has been
Knowledge Centre fundamental in concluding more than
the National Orthophoto Database.
(LTK). 230,000 cases. The system is currently under development
to ensure support for field construction
In Hungary, planners, designers and architects works in the near future via location-based
have to consult public utility companies before Augmented Reality mobile application.
LTK has been created by the merger
building and construction works. Planning and
of two prestigious Hungarian institutes,
the Government Office of the Capital
City Budapest Department of Geodesy
Remote Sensing and Land Offices – former
Institute of Geodesy Cartography and
Figure 1 Original ArcticDEM strip on the Reykjavík area
Remote Sensing (FÖMI) – and the Lechner
Knowledge Centre.
The e-Land Registry project aims to
improve the competitiveness of the
Hungarian economy by reducing land
administration transaction times. It will
increase the electronic procedures for
citizens and other stakeholders through
the creation of client-oriented, electronic
land administration services with new
e-solutions and communication channels.
An additional benefit will be the electronic
reorganisation of land administration
proceedings, not only to improve efficiency Figure 2 Mosaic, using a median value of all possible DEMs at each cell locationYou can also read
