NCGI, National Clearinghouse Geo-Information

of the Netherlands

‘From Clearinghouse to SDI’

Peter van de Crommert

Manager NCGI

Geodan

20 november 2002

GIS Day 2002

NCGI challenges

• N ational

• C learinghouse

• G eographical

• I nformation

• N ew

• C hallenges

• G eo

• I CT

Content

• Introducing Geodan

• From GIS to GeoPortal

• NCGI Foundation– International situation– Introduction and history– Public-Privat Partnership NCGI-Geodan– NCGI new generation– The future challenges– Project examples

Geodan introduction

• Since 1985

• Independent

• Two offices– Amsterdam (HQ)– ‘s-Hertogenbosch

• 3 companies– Geodan SDT: Software Development and Technology

– Geodan Mobile Solutions: ‘New technology”, WAP

– Geodan IT: Geo-ICT Consultancy, Applications and products

• 80 employees

Geodan IT

• Geodan markets:– Government– Semi-government– Businesses

• Retail• Telco’s• Energy companies• Media

• OpenGIS system integration

Geodan: OpenGIS System Integrator

Content

• Introducing Geodan

• From GIS to GeoPortal

• NCGI– International situation– Introduction and history– Public-Privat Partnership NCGI-Geodan– NCGI new generation– The future challenges– Project examples

FromGeographical Information Systems

toGeoPortal Services

Goal and Mission

To Supply

Geo-Information and- Application Services

via the Internet as

Integrated and Embedded

part of any websites.Through

Fixed and Mobile connections

these Services can be delivered

any Time, any Place and for Everybody.

The GeoPortal Solution

• From concept to Solution

• Using webservices technics

• 3 Solution businessmodels:– Traditional project;– Outsourcing model;– ASP-model.

• GeoPortal Services….

EducationServices

Geo-AppsServices

Geo-DataServices

De GeoPortal Services

Project Solutions and Cases(Professional Services)

GeoPortal Interface Services

GeoPortal Basis IT-infrastructuur

GeoPortal Standards

• WWW Consortium Standards

• OGC Web Services (OWS)

• Metadata Standards (CEN/ISO)

• J2EE

• Oracle 9iDB

• Oracle 9iAS

• Oracle 9i Spatial Option

• Acces to GeoData and services:

• Locate (find) GeoData

• View GeoData

• Use/Analyse Geodata

• (Payment, access,…)

• …….

• Integration of data!!

GeoPortal, Wat is het?

Catalog Services

WebMapping

GeoServices

GeoPortal, Characteristics

• Data en services at the source

• Distributed environment

• (Mobile) Internet as communication medium

• OpenGIS as standard

GeoPortal case: AH

GeoPortal case: GBKN-Base Map NL

GeoPortal case: KLIC- One Call System

GeoPortal case: Province Noord BrabantCultural Value Map

GeoPortal case: Ministry RWS- EcoMap

GeoPortal case: Province Utrecht - Roadworks

GeoPortal: RRGS

GeoPortal: ROB

GeoPortal: Kadaster Internet Services

GeoPortal case: Dutch Geo Clearinghouse

GeoPortal case: Dutch Geo Clearinghouse

GeoPortal remarks

• Moving very fast towards a distributed geo service concept

• GeoPortals:– Data is no longer ‘local’– Geo Processing Resources (services) at a distance

• Commerce will dominate the market?

• Problem: – how to integrate information from different ‘Portals’– Domination of sofware vendors? open standards

• OpenGIS can help us!– Webmapping– Catalog services

Content

• Introducing Geodan

• From GIS to GeoPortal

• NCGI– International situation– Introduction and history– Public-Privat Partnership NCGI-Geodan– NCGI new generation– The future challenges– Project examples

INSPIREInfrastructure for Spatial Information In Europe

Source:

Presentation to the OGC meeting

10 June 2002, London

Paul Smits – Joint Research CentreChairman, Architecture and Standards

Working Group

Architecture & Standards

Chair : JRC Ispra

Legal Aspects& Data Policy

Chair : UK

Funding & Implementation

structuresChair : SE

Common Reference Data & Metadata

Chair : ESTAT

ImpactAnalysisChair : NL

Environmental thematic

co-ordinationChair: EEA

Inter-sectoral co-ordinationChair: ESTAT

…..biodiversity

soilsseveso

urbannoise

forestwater

Environmental components

HorizontalComponents

Agricultural components

Transportcomponents

Other components

Technical Co-ordination & Secretariat JRC Ispra - Institute for Environment and Sustainability

COGIChair: ESTAT

INSPIRE Expert GroupChair : DG ENV & ESTAT

Thematic Components

E-ESDI

Otherthematic

co-ordinationChair:

Transportthematic

co-ordinationChair:

Agriculturalthematic

co-ordinationChair:

Phase 1: Environmental

Sector

INSPIRE

AST vision

• The architecture envisioned by AST deploys interoperable services that will help to produce and publish, find and access, and eventually, use and understand geographic information over the internet across the European Union and Accession Countries at local, national, and European levels.

Methodology

• Organisation model - shows the organisation’s goals, relationships (financial, economic, business) between public and private sector, and rules and policies

• User model - identifies the types of users and defines user requirements

• Process model - defines the abstract business objects that will be modelled and codified in the SDI system, their rules, and workflow

• Architecture model - defines the SDI system components and the relationship between them (e.g., servers, their functionality, client applications, etc.) as well as their relationship to the different national and international standards and specifications (e.g. OpenGIS and ISO)

• Implementation model - breaks down the architecture model into smaller components and defines the scope of the technology decisions, deployment platforms, building and reusing components, and performance and networking decisions

Current statusArchitecture model

Clients

Middleware

ServersFeaturesCoverages

Metadata updateCatalogs

Geo-processingand catalog Services

ContentRepositories

Other data

e.g., administrative,statistical, env. reporting

Distributed Geographic reference data

Service chaining:search, display,

access, e-commerce,

….

User applications

Directdataaccess

Access to transformeddata, pictures, maps, reports,

multi-media content

Metadata search and retrieval for data and services

After the Digital Earth Reference Model

Current statusDigital geographic information repositories

MIX

ISO

OGC

NAT

OGC OGC

OGC

ContentNot plannedPlanned, not startedOn-goingNearly completed

Current statusCatalogs and metadata

MIX

CEN

OGC

MIX

MIXMIX

MIX

CatalogsNot plannedPlanned, not startedOn-goingNearly completed

Current statusGeospatial processing services (notably catalog services)

ISO

OGCMIXOGC

ISO

ISO

ISO

ServicesNot plannedPlanned, not startedOn-goingNearly completed

Current statusApplications

MIX

ISO

OGC

NAT

OGC

OGC

ApplicationsNot plannedPlanned, not startedOn-goingNearly completed

Inspire inspired NCGI to change

NCGI History

• Phase 0: Ravi Initiative march 1995

• Phase 1: Idefix - pilot mid 1997

• Phase 2: NCGI official start early 1998

• Phase 3: NCGI version 1.1 end 2000– Redesign website– Pilot WebMapping– Distributed information (nodes at the source)

• Status report early 2001– 13 data suppliers with approx. 1500 geodatasets– Many technical and organizational problems encountered– Financial future uncertain (governmental grant only 4 years)

Motivation for the continuation of NCGI

• Infrastructuur NCGI is OK -> ready for use

• In future focus on exploitation of the infrastructure and on users

• Quality and transparency via NCGI garanteed:– Openess, uses available standards, Security issues,…

• G-to-G discussion within government

• G-to-P discussion ‘not in my backyard’

• International geo-issues:– High water, industrial air pollution, mouth disease,……– New Inspiration from GSDI, GINIE, INSPIRE initiatives

• HOW to continue ???

Public Private Partnership NCGI – Geodan (phase 4)

• Agreement signed end June 2001

• Starting 1 July 2001: – NCGI Foundation remains owner– Geodan responsible for exploitation and maintenance

• Main task of the Foundation: – Watching over, and Monitoring, the mission and goals of the

foundation

• PPP construction used frequently in Netherlands– GBKN : Large Scale BaseMap– IntWIS : Integral Water Information System– KLIC : Cable and Pipe Information Centre (call before you dig)– Sherpa : GeoIT fundament for Nationwide security (homeland)

NCGI new proposed organizational setup

NCGI Users(government and public)

NCGI management team

NCGI Daily board

NCGI Foundation

Data and serviceproviders

Operations Sales/MKTProjects

AdvisoryBoard

NCGIUsers/suppliersGeodan

SLA’s

PPPSLA’s

NCGI.nl Portals

Mission and Goal: NCGI New Generation

• Mission NCGI:– The NCGI aims at the exploitation and maintenance of an geo-

platform for quick and cost effective publishing and using geo-datasets and geo-infrastructure services for the purpose dissimination of geo-information within and between state, regional and local government and to the general public.

• Goal NCGI:– To run a economic profitable NCGI infrastructure within the

boundaries of the mission. The infrastructure may be used to supply (meta)datasets or may be used for a quick start for projects with high priority or can be used to publish ongoing thematic geo-related information to the public and/or government.

Enough new challenges !!

NCGI : infrastructure and services for exchange of governmental geo information

NCGIInfraCitizens Citizens

Citizens

Citizens

From basic infrastructure -> end user apps

• Catalog services (metadata) -> Data services

• Data services -> Information services – Focused on theme’s and projects

• Information services -> Knowledge

• Change NCGI from metadata provider -> “service provider”

• NCGI: grow model -> 2002 –2004

In General:

• From GeoDatasets to GeoServices (OWS)

NCGI services architecture

NCGI GeoServices

NCGI-Clients/Entry

NCGI GeoPortalNCGI.nl

NCGITheme portal

NCGI Project portal

User application

Searching (central node)

Downloading(ordering)

NCGI DataServices

Metadata record(Local Cataloge

Service)

RasterDatasets(WCS)

VectorDatasets

(WMS/WFS)

AlfanumericalDatasets(WFS)

Viewing(webmapping)

Using(analyses)

Security, privacy checkse-commerce, disclaimers

From clearinghouse to GDI

NGDI Concept

ClientsWFS WMS WCS CatGaz

Internet

@NGDI

Internet

NGDI.nlUser Interface Widgets

Analysis Symbols Help

Web Browser (Thin Client) Applications (Thick Client)

Services

Provider Organisaties

Data

Content model new NCGI

Services:

• Basic infrastructure (“current NCGI”)– Catalog services (metadata)– Distributed setup with local nodes – Add actual datasets– Expanded with new geodata services (WMS, WFS, WCS, …)

• Thematic GeoPortal services (framework,I-team)– Information services

• Project GeoPortal services (specials)– Proces supporting

• Supply Knowledge and research services

• ‘ GeoSpatial One Stop’

NCGI GeoPortals – Future examples

Thematic:

• Traffic

• Reconstruction farmland

• Environmental Quality monitor

• Public Safety and security

• Cables and pipes

• Land Use

• Land Planning

• Watermanagement

Projects:

• Large infrastructural works

• Landreform projects

• Coastal projects

• DURP

• MKZ

• ….

RuimtelijkRuimtelijkRuimtelijk

Source organizations

Mapframe

DataServer

Web S

erver

Organisatie C

Ruimtelijk

Data-2

Data-3

Users

web browser

DataServer

Web S

erver

Organisatie B

Ruimtelijk

Data-2

Data-3

WebmappingServer

Web S

erver

Oganisatie A

RuimtelijkRuimtelijk plan-2

MapClient

Web S

erver

NCGI

NCGI

NCGI-DURP implementation

Conditions for NCGI success (challenges)

• User driven NOT supplier/technology driven• Maintain neutrality as PPP

• Expanding from catalog Geoservices provider

• NCGI funding through realisation of projects/theme’s: portal owners

• Motivate data owners to publish geodata (at a fair charge)

• Consequent use of (inter)national standards

• Connect NCGI to closed governmental information networks:– Gemnet, KING, RYX en Waterring, ON2000,…

• Consequent implementation using grow model (2002-2004)– Step by Step

• Follow and adapt International Initiatives OGC, GSDI, INSPIRE• Pricing models

• User driven NOT supplier/technology driven

Thank you for your attention !

www.ncgi.nlinfo@ncgi.nlpeter@ncgi.nl