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SDI in Finland

Nordic SDI Seminar Uppsala 3.10.2011

Panu Muhli

Spatial Data Infrastructure Team

Inspire secretariat

Development Centre

NATIONAL LAND SURVEY – DOWN TO EARTH

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Legal framework

Coordination structure

National SDI strategy

Status of implementation

National geoportal – open source tools

Data policy

Contents

NATIONAL LAND SURVEY – DOWN TO EARTH

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Legislation

SDI law, 17.6.2009

SDI act, 12.10.2009

Coordinator: Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry

List of authorities involved (26+municipalities)

Duties: metadata, view&download services, reporting

Support services by National Land Survey:

geoportal, discovery&transformation services,

guidance, monitoring&reporting support

National Council for Geographic Information (7 ministries + 8 other

members)

Minimal requirements of Inspire

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State authorities:

Environment Institute

National Land Survey

Meteorological Institute

Transport Agency

Geological Survey

Statistics Finland

Population Registry Centre

Agency for Rural Affairs

Natural History Museum

Game and Fisheries Research

Forest Research Institute

National Forest Agency

Food Safety Authority

Agrifood Research

Agriculture and Forestry Information

Centre

Board of Antiquities

Defence Forcies

Transport Safety Agency

Institute for Health and Welfare

Energy Market Authority

Ministry of Employment and the Economy

Regional authorities:

economy, transport and environment centres (15)

regional councils (19)

forestry centres (13)

search and resque units (22)

Local authorities:

municipalities (326)

INSPIRE /

SDI Authorities in Finland nominated in the act of the SDI

(1.1.2010-)

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National Data product specifications

JHS xxx Kantakartta JHS xxx Asemakaava

IR Spatial Data Sets, Annex I

IR Spatial Data Sets, Annex II &III

Inspire directive

IR Metadata IR Discovery and View

IR Download and Tranformation

IR Invoke Services

Guidelines Metadata Guidelines Discovery Guidelines View Guidelines Download Guidelines Transformation

Legislation

Service Definition

Annex II, III Data product specifications 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Data Specification

IR Monitoring and reporting

IR Access rights

Spatial Data Infrastructure Law

Spatial Data Infrastructure Act

Inspire – Implementimg Rules (IR)

JHS-guidelines in administration

JHS-guidelines for spatial data

Coordinate systems … JHS 153, 154, 163

Postal address JHS 106

Municipality identifier JHS 110

Annex I Data product specifications o Coordinate reference systems o Geographical grid systems o Addresses o Geographical names o Administrative units o Cadastral parcels o Transport networks o Hydrography o Protected sites

Real estate identifier … JHS 138

Land use classification JHS 148

Planning identifiers … JHS 134, 135

Building identifiers … JHS 104, 125

Metadata … JHS 158

Modelling spatial data … JHS 162

Network services … JHS xxx

de jure standards ISO 19100 serie ISO 19101 Reference model

de facto standards OGC, …

ISO, CEN, SFS

Quality management … JHS 160

EU, Finland

ISO 19107 Spatial schema ISO 19108 Temporal schema

ISO 19109 Rules for application schema

ISO 19123 Schema for coverage … ISO 19136 Geography Markup Language

ISO 19137 Core profile of spatial schema

ISO 19110 …feature cataloguing

ISO 19117 Portrayal ISO 19118 Encoding

ISO 19113, 114, 138 Quality … ISO 19115 Metadata

ISO 19131 Data product specification

ISO 19119 Services ISO 19128 Web Map Server ISO 19142 Web Feature Service

ISO 19111 Spatial referencing

by coordinates

ISO 19112 Spatial referencing

by identifiers

ISO 19143 Filter encoding

ISO 19139 Metadata XML …

ISO 19103 Conceptual Schema Language

Guidance

Execution

Data product specification

guidelines JHS 177

Defining and

describing

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Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry MAF

INSPIRE- network (1.6.2009 -) Steering group Work groups Geoportal and network services (mainly service providers) Products and harmonising (mainly data providers) Data and service sharing (data and service providers) Employment and use of spatial data (mainly users) Business models and roles of stakeholders

New grouping 2011-2012: Infrastructure, Co-operation, Exploitation, Capability building

• Task Force on terminology and ontologies > 300 experts and > 140 organisations

National Council for Geographic Information Inspire-secretariat

(NLS Finland)

Government 28 Municipalities 16 Universities 9 Business 26 Other

Coordination structure

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National Council for Geographic Information

Principal tasks:

Follow-up the development of the NSDI

Follow-up the implementation of the INSPIRE

Handling of the Implementation Rules and Guidelines

Handling of the national guidelines for the SDI

implementation

Handling of the terms of use for the national geoportal

services

Writing initiatives and statements

Maintaining the national list of Inspire data sets

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Annex Theme Data Sets Organisations

I 3. Geographical names 1 1

I 4. Administrative units 3 2

I 5. Addresses 2 2+

I 6. Cadastral parcels 1 2+

I 7. Transport networks 5 2

I 8. Hydrography 6 3

I 9. Protected sites 6 3+

II 1. Elevation 6 3

II 2. Land cover 5 4

II 3. Orthoimaginery 5 4+

II 4. Geology 15 3

III 1. Statistical units 1 1

III 2. Buildings 3 3+

III 3. Soil 1 1

III 4. Land use 2 2+

III 5. Human health and safety 2 2

III 6. Utility and governmental services 4 4+

III 7. Environmental monitoring facilities 5 2

III 8. Production and industrial facilities 3 3+

III 9. Agricultural and aquaculture facilities 2 2

III 10. Population distribution – demography 1 1

III 11. Area management/… 9 6+

III 12. Natural risk zones 1 1

III 13. Atmospheric conditions 1 1

III 14. Meteorological geog. features 1 1

III 15. Oceanographic geogr. features 1 1

III 17. Bio-geographical regions 3 2

III 18. Habitats and biotopes 2 2

III 19. Species distribution 4 3

III 20. Energy resources 3 3

III 21. Mineral resources 3 1

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National SDI strategy

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National SDI strategy

Vision 2015:

Utilisation of SDI

Goals

• Easy access on high quality spatial data

• Clear roles of stakeholders

in the public and the private sector

• Quality of life and processes in the society

• R&D supporting the utilisation

and the development of SDI

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Status of Inspire implementation

Creation and collection of metadata records proceeded well: 92

% Annex I, 97 % Annex II data sets

WMS services rapidly emerging (9.5.2011: 100 % of Annex I

data), 150 map layers

Harmonisation of spatial data sets: The harmonised versions of

INSPIRE Annex I datasets are in preparation

Finnish experts have participated actively in the Annex II and III

specifications development (Land use, Elevation, Ortho-

imagery, Geology)

National geoportal in active use (~1000 daily users, 2.5 million

hits/month), and available as open source software

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www.geoportal.fi

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NLS services and Inspire Architecture

Service

Metadata Data Set

Metadata

Registers

Applications and geoportals

Rights Management Layer

Invoke

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Transformation

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Registry

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Discovery

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View

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Download

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Layer

Service bus

Data

Sources Spatial

Data Sets

NLS NLS NLS Common user

interface

= NLS

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geoportal

NLS

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National geoportal in the core of NSDI (1)

Continuous development started in 2008

A joint venture with major GI data producers in Finland

INSPIRE Discovery Service + User interfaces for View,

Download, Transformation and Registry Services

Metadata: About 200 datasets, ~30 service interfaces,

from 12 state organisations and 32 municipalitites

Support and guidance for Inspire implementation

~1000 daily users >80% of users browsing maps

Open source implementation and code distribution

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Finnish national geoportal:

Metadata search using CSW

Search options

Free text

Dataset or service name

Organization

Type (dataset / service)

Extent area

Inspire theme

Keyword

Topic category

Service type

Metadata service allows publishing metadata on other

websites

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National geoportal in the core of NSDI (2)

Interface for View Services (WMS)

• ~160 map layers from 10 state organisations and 7

municipalities

Interface for Download Services (WFS)

• ~5 data sets from 2 state organisations

Interface for Embedded Maps

• ~73 map layers (WMS interface) from 3 state organisations

and 5 municipalities

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OS components used in geoportal

Liferay – publishing system

OpenLayers – user interface for maps

Geoserver – storage of spatial datasets and maps (+

GeoTools-library application)

PostgreSQL/PostGIS - database server, iBATIS SQL-library

ExtJS – interactive internet (browser) applications

GeoExt – geospatial extentions on Openlayers with ExtJS

(capabilities on WMS, WFS)

GeoNetwork – store, manage, and show metadata for datasets

and services - discovery service

GeoWebCache for map tiling

Atlassian-tools to support scrum management

Code distribution under EUPL and MIT license; previously (GNU)

GPL 3.0:

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Open Source

Map Application

Framework

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Geoportal licensing framework

Agreement

on network

services

Anonymous users

Geoportal

Appendix 1, Terms of use for map browsing

Appendix 4, Terms of use for download

Appendix 6, Terms of use for publishing

Publishers Embedded maps

Data providers

GL GTK

Livi Mavi

TEM VRK

Espoo

Tampere Turku

NLS

Downloaders

- download under

constraction

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2500 map

requests

per week

SYKE

Museov V-S liitto

J-kylä

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Open Data (Public Sector)

Government principles 3.3.2011

• Public data should be available for re-use

• Free of charge

• Harmonised licensing

• Open data infrastructure implementation

• List of datasets (2011)

• Metadata (2012)

• Files and open service interfaces (2013)

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Problems and challenges in data policy

Variable and ambiguous terms of use

• Lack of standard terms of use and licenses

• Different user profiles

Pricing principles for different user categories

Privacy protection

• Privacy threats vs. purpose of use, data linking

The ownership of data is not always clear or known

Government working groups currently structuring and

clarifying data policy

• Proposal on free of charge topographic data from

NLS (as pilot)

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Summary

Technology is not any more a barrier to apply spatial data

BUT data policy could be a big obstacle

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Thank you for your interest!

The Finnish Geoportal Paikkatietoikkuna

won the Quality Innovation of the Year

award in the category for public sector

and non-profit corporations in a

competition organized by Excellence

Finland.

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Public administration recommendations for spatial data

JHS 153 ETRS89 Coordinate Reference System in Finland

JHS 154 Map Projections, Plane Coordinates and Map Sheet Index based on ETRS89 Coordinate Reference System

JHS 138 Real estate unit identifier, unseparated area identifier and identifier for land use rights and restrictions unit

JHS 158 Metadata of Geographic Information [ISO 19115,19139]

JHS 160 Quality Management of Geographic Information [ISO 19113,19114,19138]

JHS 162 Modelling of Geographic Information for Data Transfer [ISO 19118, 19136]

JHS 163 Vertical Reference System N2000

JHS 177 Data product specifications

Recommendations under preparation:

JHS XXX Content Services of Geographic Information (WMS, WFS, WCS)

JHS XXX Metadata for Imagery and Gridded Data

JHS XXX Municipal Base Map and Data Transfer

JHS XXX Municipal Land Use Plan and Data Transfer

The purpose of the JHS system is to promote the common definition and compliance of standards

and administrative principals on the co-operation of the public administration information

management.

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Annex I

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Oceanographic geographic features

Meteorological geographic features

Atmospheric conditions

Natural risk zones

Area management, Restriction zones

Population distribution Demography

Agriculture and aquaculture facilities

Production and industrial facilities

Human health and safety

Land use

Soil

Buildings

Utility and governemental services

Environmental monitoring facilities

Statistical units

Mineral resources

Energy resources

Species distribution

Habitats and biotypes

Bio-geographical regions

Sea regions

Geology

Ortoimaginery

Land cover Elevation

Annex I

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Protected sites

Hydrography

Addresses

Administrative units

Cadastral parcels

Transport netwoks

Geographical names Themes and the responsibilities of authorities