How to make a map in 25 How to make a map in 25 years!years!

ETeMII, workshop Reference Data

Rome, 18 October 2000 ir.L.M.Murre

ContentContent

The Dutch Topographical Base Map– Historical overview– The philosophy– The organisation– The product

Access and Dissemination– Institutional issues– Organisational issues

Historical overviewHistorical overview

1975 Cadastre receives governmental order

End 80’s financial problems 1992 signing general agreement

– national foundation (Joint Venture)– regional PPP’s

1998 Strategy Plan 1998-2002

Joint Venture PhilosophyJoint Venture Philosophy

Working together saves money Agreement on the content of the map Fee for participation depends on the

benefit for the type of organisation Fee is a fixed percentage of the costs Legal form of the PPP mostly is a

Foundation

National partners:- Cadastre- KPN Telecom

NJV DTBM

Organisational modelOrganisational model

Regional Joint Ventures

Regional Utility Comp.

Umbrella organisations:

- Union of Dutch municipal.

- Union of Water Comp.

- Union of Water boards

- Union of Energy Comp.

Gemeenten

Municipalities

Independent

Municipalities

Cadastre

OrganisationsOrganisations

National Joint Venture (foundation)– members are umbrella organisations on

national level an two national organisations 11 Regional Joint Ventures

– utility companies, municipalities, water boards etc.

50 Municipalities

The productThe product

Large scale topographical map (1:500>2000) Reference for exchange information Content defined by participants Expensive and labour-intensive

– Investment: more than 200 Million €– More than 25 years labour

Used by municipalities, utility companies etc. One of the elements for the NSDI

Users Applications

•Utility Companies (energy, water telecom etc.)•Municipalities•Water boards•Cadastre•Others...

•Planning•Building activities•Managing of rural estate and assets (and data about the rural estates and assets)

Combination with cable-information and boundary-info

Access to digital Photographs

Road management

Access and DisseminationAccess and Dissemination

Institutional Issues– Product reference guide or object

catalogue, based on the Geo-information Terrain Model

– No mandates for free access, participation in the joint venture is needed

– Code of conduct about use (licensed)– Different prices (high)– Ownership is in hand of the RJV

Access and Dissemination Access and Dissemination (cont(cont.).)

Organisational issues– RJV’s have small offices for managing the

data, updating and distribution– Most of the the data management is done

by the Cadastre– No sets of metadata are available– The attitude is changing to customer-

oriented

Access and Dissemination Access and Dissemination (cont.)(cont.)

Organisational Issues (cont.)– The product is changing to an information-

service – Plans for changing the national

organisation model– Accessibility by Internet is in progress– Feasibility study started for Authentic

Registration (NSDI) together with other registrations (Buildings, TOP10vector)

New organisational modelNew organisational model

Base Map HollandBase Map HollandNational Participants, like:CadastreKPN-telecomNUON, UPC, etc.Umbrella Organisations

RJV-representative

NJV DTBM

MB

Office Base Map Holland

Regional Joint

Ventures

User/Viewer

dataset

dataset

dataset

VIEW Telfort

Amsterdam

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