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X-border-SDI/GDI & AEBR - The INSPIRE Directive 2007/2/EC:

(Interoperability of Spatial Data, Services and Applications)

Challenges and Opportunities for European Border Regions

Doz. Dr. Frank HOFFMANN, CSc IGN - INNOVATION. Grenzüberschreitendes Netzwerk e.V.

c/o IGN-Vorstand, Martin-Andersen-Nexö-Str. 4, D-01217 DRESDEN / Saxony / Germany

[ http://www.FACEBOOK.com/event.php?eid=163068260403141 ] [ Mailto:Vorstand@IGN-SN.de ]

Keywords: Austria, Awareness, Bavaria, Bohemia, Cil3, Cross-border, Directives,Education, ESDI, ETC/3A, Euregio,

Europe, GDI, Geomatics, Geospatial Saxony, GI2000, GI2011, GIS, INSPIRE, Interoperability, INTERREG,

LifeLongLearning, NSDI, OpenGIS, Pilot projects, PSI, RAPIS, Regions, Saxonia, SDI, Spatial planning,

Strategy seminars, Sustainability, Usability, X-border-SDI

Motivation: The 1999 Vision by IGN, the Directives 2003/98/EC and 2007/2/EC and the Invitation 2011 by AEBR

GeoINSPIRE’d Cross-border-Mapping and Statistic Portals for sustainable development of EBR

GEO/ENVIRO/SPATIO Applications from EU/CIP, eCONTENT+ and INTERREG/3A and ETC/4A

X-SDI projects focused on Infrastructure of Spatial Information for Europe (INSPIRE)

GEOPORTAL solutions: X-GDI-NL#NRW <> GIS-Grande#Region <> SIGRS#GISOR <> DACH+

GEOPORTAL solutions & INSPIRE related pilot projects between

Austria<#>Bavaria<#>Bohemia<#>Polonia<#>Saxonia and

The GI2011-X-SDI/GDI-Symposium at 23./24.05.2011 in the “Euregio ELBE#LABE”

Abstract:

The “grass-root” of the INSPIRE Directive 2007/2/EC goes back to the 90ties, when

starting from the so-called CLINTON Order No 12906 in the year 1994. This was the beginning of the

foundation of OGC (OpenGIS Consortium in 1995, now called the Open Geospatial Consortium), as

well the start of GSDI (The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Conferences, which actually has been

transformed into the GSDI Association). At the same time in 1995 the European Commission started

similar initiatives at Directorate III (Industry) and Directorate VIII (Environment) to support spatial

and environmental decision making in Europe of Regions.

A spatial GI discussion forum was created 1997 by EC/JRC-Ispra, the so-called EGIP-List

(European GeoInformation Policy). It ended up with intensive discussions on the vision, mission and

conception of the GI2000 Initiative as an integrated ESDI (European Spatial Data Infrastructure)

project, defacto ready for submission just after the 5th EC GI&GIS Workshop in Stresa/Italy in

summer 1999 but, unfortunately, it was cancelled in December 1999 in spite of urged demission of the

European Commission.

After revival of the GI2000 conception in Dublin 2002 and INSPIRE initial EC approval

in 2004, as well as the adoption of the new INSPIRE Directive later on in 2007, the geopolitical

decision process moved very slowly not only in European Member states, but also in Saxony. Finally,

the INSPIRE Data and Service Sharing Guidelines of the European COMMISSION REGULATION

No 268/2010 as of 29 March 2010 have been published at April 28th 2010. This Regulation is aiming

to introduce OPEN ACCESS conditions to spatial datasets, information services and thematical

applications (georesource using, environmental monitoring and regional planning) not only inside of

the EC institutions and agencies in order to give them the opportunity to harmonize and integrate

geodata supplied from all Member states in a standardized syntactic and semantic for environmental

and spatial planning processes, but as well for regional/cross-border organizations and local

communities.

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But, the main barriers and, as well important challenges are the INSPIRE semantic geodata

harmonization and geoservice integration of national GI infrastructures across the state borders !

These pre-conditions seem to be obviously from a cartographic viewpoint since GI2000

already (see Proceedings of GI2010-Symposium-DRESDEN, pp. 38-40) and therefore, have been the

main focus behind our NGO foundation of IGN e.V. (INNOVATION. Cross-border-Network)

Association in 2002/2003, as well as developing our GI2000 Strategy seminars, Awareness, Training

and Continuing Education Courses (about 400 GIS experts have been post-graduated in cooperation

with word-leading GIS providers like ESRI and INTERGRAPH etc.) and organizing of cross-border

GI2000 - GI2010 Symposia in Dresden/Saxony with special focus on Euregia in Northern Bohemia

(CZ), LowerSilesia (PL) and Saxonia (DE).

Therefore, this (to be planned remotely) presentation gives a selected overview on the very

few, only 6-8 still existing X-border-Geoportal initiatives, as well as X-SDI-Portal pilot projects

dealing with topographic, topologic and semantic interoperability, usability and sustainability of

re-using geodata, webservices and PLAN4ALL applications across local, regional and state borders

(see Proceedings of GI2010-Symposium-DRESDEN, pp.41-42) in order to informing and making the

community of nearly 200 European Border Regions aware of the PSI & INSPIRE challenges ahead.

Well-known X-border-SDI pilot examples of 200 ( ? ) European Border Regions to

be analyzed and presented, but limited by presentation time…

X-DP-PLIS: Cross-border German-Polish Planning Information System DE<>PL

X-GDI-NL / NW: Cross-border Geodata Infrastructure NL <> DE (NI+NRW)

X-GDI-GrandeRegion: Cross-border Data Infrastructure of BE<>CH<>DE<>FR<>LU

X-GDI-SIGRS / GISOR: Cross-border Data Infrastructure of CH<>FR<>DE

X-GDI-BODENSEE / DACH+: Cross-border SDI for AT<>CH<>DE (BW+BY)<>LI

X-GDI-CENTROPE-MAP: Cross-border Spatial Planning Portal AT<>CZ<>HU<>SK

X-GDI-SUMAVA: Cross-border ATKIS & ZABAGED Harmonisation CZ(PLZ)<>DE(BY)

X-GDI-NNR: NaturNet+Redime Project Tools for X-SDI-Testing AT<>CZ<>DE

X-CROSS-DATA: X-border-ETC/3A Spatial Information Planning System CZ<4 Euregia>DE(SN)

X-RegioGDI-RAPIS: Raumplanungs-Informationssystem X-Region-Sachsen

European eCONTENT+ Network: Research Project “PLAN4ALL”

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The GI Vision by IGN e.V. / BOWGIS © 1999, by FH. GI2002: X-border-SDI for EUREGIONS CZ<>SN ?

2010: Search with IGN-NaturNet-NAVIGATOR for RAPIS ( Spatial Planning Webservices Application Saxony)

Webservice Application “Bauleitplanung / Local planning” <> Webservice Application “Umwelt / Environment”

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