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Strategy for managing environmental spatial datain Denmark

Lars Kjær Justsen

eGovernment and GIS - National Survey and Cadastre

INSPIRE Conference Istanbul – June 2012

National Survey and Cadastre

eGovernment and GIS – National Survey and Cadastre

Head of Department: Peter Pouplier

Approx: 25 employees

(1/3 in Aalborg – 2/3 in Copenhagen)

Department responsibilities:

• Coordinate and support eGovernment and GIS application within the Ministry of the Environment

• Coordinate acquisition of geodata, storage, standardization and access to environment-related data within the Ministry of the Environment

• Establish and maintain an IT strategy and IT architecture for eGovernment within the Ministry of the Environment

• Develop and maintain the environmental geospatial systems within the Ministry of the Environment

• Handling special data deliveries

• IT obligation in relation to The Danish Nature and Environment Portal (DMP)

• System ownership of corporate digital management systems (EDRMS, etc.)

An eGovernment and GIS Service Unit for the Ministry


The Ministry of the Environment

Nature AgencyNational Survey

and Cadastre

Environmental

Protection Agency

Environmental

board of appeal

The Minister for the Environment

The Department

Employees: 1.500 300 450 100


Agencies

Nature Agency

The Nature Agency is concerned with ensuring opportunities for the enjoyment of nature, as well as protecting our nature and aquatic environment. The Agency is also responsible for creation, preservation and restoration of the Danish countryside as well as the planning of urban and rural areas.

Environmental Protection Agency

The Environmental Protection Agency works to protect the environment, nature and people. The Agency administrates legislation on environmental protection, waste, soil, chemicals, pesticides, gene technology and the environmental impact of noise and air pollution caused by transport.


The National Survey and Cadastre works towards making spatial data an everyday tool for the public sector, for businesses and for the general public. The National Survey and Cadastre is the government agency for maps and spatial data.


A bit of history…

5 years back in time…

Agencies within the Ministry – independent data management and many local systems

Local government reform 2007 – more tasks and data to the Ministry

• File-based environmental geodata scattered on many file servers

• No metadata – No index

• Master – copy problems

• Several different GIS and production, distribution, platforms

• A lot of conversion between systems, formats (by hand)

• No standardized way - collection, quality, distribution….

• A lot of different external interfaces at all levels

• And so on and so forth….

…very chaotic …very poor utilization of data and systems


Solution?

What to do about all that…

• Absolutely essential to look at resources and cost/benefit

• It can be done much more efficiently

• We have to do something anyway – come INSPIRE

So… decision was made to go for the lot with anew strategy for environmental geodata

• Based on the Ministry’s Digitisation Strategy

• In accordance with Public Sector Digitisation Strategy


Strategy for environmental geodatain the Ministry of the Environment

Content of the strategy:

• Vision

• Strategic framework principles

• Business principles

• Strategic action themes

• Action plan

• New system architecture


Vision

“Environmental geodata and GIS supports and creates value for business processes in the Ministry of the Environment and is an essential element in the communication with citizens, businesses and other authorities”


Aim of Strategy

“Environmental geodata is recognized as one of the most important tools for decision support in the Ministry of the Environment”

• Shared infrastructure for environmental geodata

• Trustworthy and reliable data

• Streamlining – processes and governance

• Overview and access to data

• Uniform data structure

• Well-defined quality

Expressed in a series of principles

- Framework and business


Strategic Framework Principles

• One Infrastructure model for the environmental sector – INSPIRE principles

• Data should only be collected once.

• Data should be maintained where this can be done most effectively.

• It should be easy to get an overview of available data and web services.

• Data should be easy to combine, regardless of their source.

• There should be clear conditions of use which assure that data can be utilized by many users in many contexts.

• Location based information as an essential element of e-government

• Improved digital service

• Stronger cooperation

• Increased efficiency through digitization


Business principles

• Automated processes wherever possible

• Standardization

• Efficient collection, production and administration of data

• Reliability, Availability, Concurrency and Quality

• Common IT solutions as a means to a uniform handling of common tasks


Strategic Action Model


Strategic Action Plan


New system architecture for environmental geodata

Overall Aim

• Trustworthy and reliable data

• More efficient work processes – less administration

Starting point

• Evolution rather than revolution

• Making use of existing platforms, skills and knowledge

• Strict management of geodata production and geodata maintenance

• Open and flexible use of environmental geodata


Current Architecture and Systems

GIS Web application

• Based on open source Mapserver

• Adapted and specialized for public sector use in Denmark

• Licenced by private company (Grontmij)

Desktop GIS

• MapInfo 10.5 (100)

• ArcGIS 10.0 (17 ArcInfo, 6 ArcEditor, 49 ArcView, + Ext.)

Server GIS

• ArcGIS Server (Adv, Std, Basic)

Spatial databases

• ArcSDE

• PostgreSQL / PostGIS

Metadata registry

• Evironmental geodata - Ministry of the Environment

• GeodataInfo.dk - National Geoportal (Inspire)


New System Architecture


New System Architecture

• A hybrid production system with use of commercial and open source componentsPostgreSQL/PostGIS/ArcGIS

• "Use the components for what they are best at"

• A strictly controlled data platform based on standards and open interfaces- to insure data integrity and data quality

• A somewhat lenient approach to choice of application- should be decided by business needs

• One distribution system based on open standards, (WFS/WMS/WMST) and proprietary formats (TAB/ Shape) where needed

• General usage is moved from desktop GIS to web browser-based GIS


Next step:Implementation

Challenges:

• General IT performance issues

• IT-network problems

• Many local offices

• Integration with other systems

• How do we handle historic data?

• How do we publish data on the Danish Nature and Environment Portal

• Establish an operations andsupport organization

• Implement pilots – proof of concept

• Prioritize data migration

• Data modeling

• Basic functionality of data platform

• Desktop access to data platform

• Services, authentication and security

• Internet and intranet web clients


Benefits we aim to achive...

• Standardized data that complies with INSPIRE

• Data that are easily reported to EU

• Metadata and data in action!

• Make better use of data…

… to improve planning and decision making!

INSPIRE paved our road to a new and better infrastructure for environmental geodata in the Danish Ministry of the Environment

But… it can be quite challeging at times…


Lars Kjær Justsen

Niels Bohrs Vej 30

DK-9220 Aalborg Øst

Denmark

Phone: +45 72 54 86 88

E-mail: [email protected]

www.kms.dk

Thank you for your attention!

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