This event tries to bring all those interested in and actively contributing to the GEOSS from all over Europe to present their work and actively discuss how Europe can best contribute to GEO.

Find more details at https://sites.google.com/site/inspiremappingtutorial/home

The Plan4all project delivers technical results that will be of interest of spatial planners,  GI experts and ICT professionals. The Plan4all Project fosters the exchange of ideas and experiences between those professional communities. To be fruitful, such dialogue requires a common language. This book, focussing on the approaches more than on the technicalities, is aimed  to contribute to this common language.

The Plan4all project delivers technical results that will be of interest of spatial planners,  GI experts and ICT professionals. The Plan4all Project fosters the exchange of ideas and experiences between those professional communities. To be fruitful, such dialogue requires a common language. This book, focussing on the approaches more than on the technicalities, is aimed  to contribute to this common language.

Please register for the conference here (there is a limit of 100 participants).

According to the EC Directive 2007, the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) has to be established in a near future in Europe.

It will assist policy-making in relation to policies and activities that have a direct or indirect impact on the environment; it is based on spatial information created by the Member States.

For public and private actors, this new pan-European Spatial Data Infrastructure will have crucial consequences on procedures and methodologies for spatial data sharing, new spatial planning standards, regional planning and land-use planning in Europe.

The first part of the Conference consists in three keynote speeches from the DG Environment, the Joint Research Centre and the DG Regio, and the second part will present the results of the EU Project funded by the eContent+ Program, which was focussing on the harmonisation of spatial planning data based on the existing best practices in EU regions and municipalities. It involved detailed description of the current description, and proposes, tests and implements spatial planning metadata profile, common data model and harmonisation procedures on the topics of e.g. land cover, land use, utility and government services, agricultural facilities, area management and risk zones.

• Visualization client HSlayers
• Geohosting

This document describe Plan4all platform.

• Visualization client HSlayers
• Geohosting

This document describe Plan4all platform.

Land Use, Land Cover and Habitats issues in terms of INSPIRE

Challenges for a sustainable development in Europe

A seminar for public and private actors active in the field of spatial planning in Europe

Brussels, 21 September 2011 – 13.00 – 17.00h

Committee of the Regions

Please find more details and the registration form here.

Register for the Plan4all Final Conference!

Spatial Planning in Europe in terms of INSPIRE

Solutions in the framework of the Europe 2020 Strategy

A conference for public and private actors active in the field of spatial planning in Europe

Brussels, 13 October 2011, 14:00 – 17:30

Diamant Congress Centre, Boulevard A. Reyers 80, B – 1030 Brussels

DRAFT AGENDA

DATE: 28 June, 9:00

FTZ (MT) produced 2 maps that pertain to the Plan4All requirements. The descriptions of the two layers are as follows:

1. Land Cover
2. LandUse

Land Cover Mapping in Malta was initiated as part of the accession exercise carried out to conform to the priority dataflow requirements as established by the European Environment Agency. The initial exercise was carried out for CLC2000 and was validated based on a 100% parameter take as sampling was deemed difficult due to the small area of the islands. A second run was carried out for CLC2006, where the opportunity was taken to carry out CLC1990 and change analysis for 1990-2000 and 2000-2006. The layer used for Plan4All is based on the CLC2006 map, which includes 19 categories (agriculture with significant area of natural vegetation, airports, complex cultivation patterns, coniferous forest, continuous urban fabric, discontinuous urban fabric, dump sites, green urban areas, industrial or commercial units, mineral extraction sites, mixed forest, non-irrigated arable land, port areas, salines, sclerophyllous vegetation, sea and ocean, sparsely vegetated areas, sport and leisure facilities, and vineyards).

The LandUse map for Malta was created for this project as based on the CLC mapping exercise with additional review of areas that pertain to specific development planning and environmental legislation. Malta has a series of maps that have been created for local planning purposes, quasi-equivalent to NUTS4/LAU1, which however do not have a harmonised attribute as well as spatial structure thus they were used only for comparative and specific use review.

LandUse in Malta is highly mixed, however most of the areas have a predominance of one main use which is mainly residential with commercial and industrial areas situated in specific locations.

The landuse attributes were those agreed at the Olomouc workshop (agriculture, commercial, industrial, mining/quarrying, natural, other, parks, residental, services, transportinfrastructure) and for each area the relevant legislation was consulted due to the fact that Malta as of 2010 has a combined development planning and environmental law, which identifies different levels of use and protection through a series of subsidiary legislation. Prior to 2010, there were two separate planning and environmental laws.

The data sources included development planning zoning, predominant landuse and data from the various spatial maps created for the legislative process inclusive of development application process, environmental protection and resource mapping.

During the colloquium, Mauro discussed how e-government and geographic information can be integrated to provide the most efficient spatial data infrastructure services to citizens and the general public. He focused on implementations of regional, national, and European Union-level initiatives within the framework of INSPIRE and presented a number of specific projects co-funded by EU including the Plan4all project.

The Seminar organised by ISOCARP within the Plan4all Project discussed first the question of INSPIRE and spatial planning, related to the Plan4all project, and focussed in a second part on public and private actors active in the field of spatial planning having to deal with INSPIRE in a near future: Environment, Spatial Planning, Real Estate Industry.

"Spatial Planning in South Eastern Europe"

The workshop will be held on April 19^th 2011 in Ljubljana, Slovenia at Ministry of Public Administration. All information regarding the event and registration can be found HERE

Date: 3rd March 2011

Venue: Budapest, Hotel Gellért

Hungarian GI Association in close cooperation with EUROGI is committed to build a bridge between the local stakeholders, fragmented interest groups, bringing the relevant public, academic, private and civil sector representatives together. Decision makers, core and value added service providers and users such as local governments are invited to a forum entitled Digital Spatial Planning - a reality or utopia? Due to the importance of the subject, HUNAGI upgraded this Plan4all Workshop on Conference level, the first international event on GI in Budapest during the Semester of the Hungarian Presidency of the European Council.

For more information:

Conference programme (18.2.2011)

Up-to-date blog

HUNAGI website

Figure 8: the geoportal-geocatalogue infrastructure

Two main aspects are worth mentioning: the metadata editor géosource and the Géoportail API.

GEOPALsynthesefonctionnelleV2.pdf

Figure 7: the GeoPAL infrastructure

Figure 6: the MEDDTL infrastructure

Fondazzjoni Temi Zammit (FTZ) engaged the help of the Topographic Product Development (GI-Related) Management at the National Mapping Agency within Malta Environment & Planning Authority (MEPA).

MEPA has been working on issues like European wide homogeneous data sets emphasizing on land cover topics for several years.  Land cover plays an important role for environmental spatial and territorial analysis.  Up-to-date data about land use and land cover is maintained at very high detail, nominally at 1:1000.  In view of such detailed-scale usage, maps at scales required by Corine Land Cover are rarely used due to the generalized product that is not used for local consumption.  This project required the acquisition of satellite imagery and photo interpretation methodologies for the main CLC2006 map and the 2000-2006 change analysis.  Data sources that were used in conjunction with the EEA/JRC imagery included the national maps and ancillary data that include orthorectified imagery (2004), topographic maps, land use-maps as produced for local plans, habitats, agricultural, environmental datasets, and development planning parcels, amongst other datasets.

Malta is the smallest European Union member state both in terms of area and population size.  It is situated in the central Mediterranean sea about 100 km south of Sicily.  It consists of an archipelago of three main islands, namely Malta, Gozo and Comino, as well as a number of smaller uninhabited islets, for a total area of 316 sq. km.  Malta’s terrain consists of low hills with terraced fields, alternating with fertile valleys.  The population of the islands stands at 430,000, making Malta one of the most densely populated countries in the world, with about 1,360 inhabitants per square kilometre.  Malta constitutes a total of 68 municipalities, most of which are exceedingly small.  The islands are notable for their unique historical and cultural heritage, as well as their maritime traditions in connection with their strategic position in the central Mediterranean and their fine natural harbours.

the forthcoming GI2011-X-border-SDI/GDI-Symposium (  "11. Sächsisches GIS-Forum"  ) will be in year 2011 a real Cross-border event, to be held 23./24.05.2011 in "Bohemia&Saxonia Switzerland",  the National Park Zentrum of Euroregion "Elbe/Labe" (EEL) on both sides of the border between Bad Schandau (SAX) and Decin (CZE).

The programme can be downloaded here.

AVINET is a technical partner in the Plan4all project and does not itself provide data in the capacity of a public spatial planning authority such as a province or a municipality. The company does however supply technology for a significant amount of national, provincial and local spatial planning authorities throughout Norway and it is in this capacity that AVINET in addition to its technical role also serves the purpose of data provider for the content deployment and validation activities of Plan4all.

The goal of implementation of Plan4all Project in the City of Olomouc is to publish relevant planning data and related metadata on local level. Representing local content providers, we are partner directly working with local planning documentations and solving problems with neighbouring plans data relationship. Using of standardized data of Land Use, Land cover, Utility and Government services are crucial.

Municipality office administrative unit area

For Plan4all purposes we started to use Metadata system LemonTree and Geohosting

The CentropeMAP server was set up in the year 2005 and hosts a map server as well as geodata and a map viewing client. Since this time there has been free web access to all CentropeMAP-related datasets. The user receives maps showing data from servers all over the region together in the same view. In 2009 the extension CentropeSTATISTICS was added, featuring statistic data for the whole region. Again, datasets come from local authorities and are put together in one table. These data can be queried, exported, aggregated, and even visualised at the CentropeMAP portal. Although there is no problem of realising distributed statistic data storage from a technical point of view, the administrative structures in the four countries are still too different from each other to realise distributed data storage as far as statistics are concerned. Twice a year there are meetings with representatives from all partner regions to discuss the further development of CentropeMAP and CentropeSTATISTICS.

The CentropeMAP applications and files are hosted on a Linux operated server. Geodata on the server are stored either as shapefiles or in a PostgreSQL/PostGIS geodatabase. The map application is powered by two open source software packages: UMN Mapserver and the Mapbender Client, a PHP and Javascript web browser interface.

The CentropeSTATISTICS extension is a PHP and Javascript application that interacts with Mapbender and has been developed by CEIT Alanova, an applied research institute in Schwechat, Austria. Thematic maps are created using Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD), an XML standard defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) to define the appearance of map layers. The statistic data is linked with an XML generator which allows the user to create chloroplethic maps on the fly.

County Limerick, situated in the Mid-West of Ireland, dates back to the year 1210 when King John of England set up the first 12 Irish Counties, of which Limerick was one.   The County itself comprises an area of approximately 2,735 square kilometres and contains 119 civil (i.e. pre-Reformation) parishes, 58 ecclesiastical parishes, 136 electoral divisions, 1,938 townlands, 5 local government electoral areas and 2 Dáil Constituencies, East and West Limerick.   The total population of the County was 121,281(Census 2002) which showed an increase of 7.3% since 1996.

Limerick County Council is the Local Government administrative body responsible for Limerick County and comprises an elected and executive structure.

Limerick Countyand comprises an elected and executive structure.

ePlan

ePlan is the spatial planning applications tracking system used by most Local Planning Authorities in Ireland - to administer and provide public web access to the local spatial planning process. ePlan is provided by the Irish LGMA (Local Government Management Agency). The ePlan system is unlikely to be made INSPIRE compliant in the near future, and so it aims to learn from and use useful best-practice results from Plan4all.

ePlan is a web based Planning Application tracking facility. It allows members of the public easy access to information on the status of planning applications. In 2006 the user base of this system was 33 sites. During 2007 ePlan was redeveloped. It now enables a member of the public to interrogate the planning files for a number of planning authorities simultaneously, provides a 'graphical' depiction of the progress of the applications from receipt to determination and also improves the accessibility features of the application.

iPlan is another of the LGMA’s Spatial Planning systems for Local Authorities. Itis a Planning Application Administration system used to process and monitor planning applications through the different stages of the planning process. During 2006, the LGMA completed the development and roll out of a major upgrade to the iPlan product. In 2006 iPlan was used in a total of 72 Planning Authority sites in Ireland.

 ISDE - Irish Spatial Data Exchange

The Irish Spatial Data Exchange (ISDE) is a discovery service for spatial data belonging to Public Authorities in Ireland.. Using the ISDE it is possible to search meta-data catalogues operated by each of its partner organisations. This can be done either using the www.isde.ieISDE Search page, or by selecting the global option on the individual catalogue search pages from any of the partners’ websites.

The ISDE’s architecture is distributed with a light central mediation service. The exchange is based around OGC and ISO standards, which allow it to be independent of any catalogue implementation technologies.

Development of the exchange was funded by the Information Society Fund (http://isf.gov.ie), the Irish Government’s Department of Community, Environment and Natural Resources (DCENR) Change and Innovation Fund and the Marine Institute (www.marine.ie).

The current partners participating in the exchange are the Coastal and Marine Resource Centre at UCC;  the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources; the Environmental Protection Agency; the Geological Survey of Ireland; the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government and the Marine Institute.

The work of Plan4all in ireland has been to now include Planning sources from Ireland’s Planning Authorties onto the ISDE and the Plan4all GeoPortal. This has been achieved by setting up a GeoNetwork/Geoserver platform at MAC, and which now appears as Catalogue on the ISDE (Available at       http://gis.mac.ie/geonetworkand http://gis.mac.ie/geoserver.

This Irish Plan4all Demonstration Prototype was setup using data from Limerick County Council the Irish Metadata Profile, which has just been agreed. Other Councils are currently being organised to also be included. This will enable the Councils to validate and explore the issues involved in doing the complete process of making their planning data INSPIRE compliant and will be shared freely through Plan4all with the other Irish Planning Authorities.

Geosite

The Irish geosite is available through the Irish Spatial Data Excahnge (ISDE) GeoPortal at www.isde.ie, through the Plan4all GeoPortal, or the Irish Plan4all Demonstration portal at http://gis.mac.ie/geoserver. This site hosts OGC services which are accessible from any compatible client application and a web viewfinder of maps which provides the basic viewing functions and is structured in the following sections:

• Search :  find information available using metadata
• OGC services: Instructions to access OGC services: WMS, CWS, WFS,etc.
• Downloads: data file download, vía http, to use with local applications.
• Map Viewer : a lightweight, web based, map viewer that provides the basic viewing functions for the data
• Links: relevant or interesting web sites for SDI

Limerick Area’s of Architectural Conservation 2005-2011

The following figures show the CSW exposing the metadata for Limerick County Councils Area of Architectural conservation dataset. (Fig 1) while the second image displays the WMS service for the dataset through the Plan4All map viewer. 

Fig 1 Viewing metadata on Plan4All Portal

Figure 2 Map viewer on Plan4All Portal

LimerickCountyPlanning Application Register

The following Figures show Limerick County Council’s Planning Application Register as it appears when

1. Fig 3 - queried through the Irish Spatial Data Exchange (ISDE)
2. Fig 4 - viewed through the Plan4All CSW viewer.
3. Fig 5 - the exposed WMS is viewed through the Plan4All map viewer

Fig 3. - CSW search through the ISDE

Fig 4. - CSW search through Plan4All

Fig 5. - WMS data viewed through the Plan4All map viewer

Metadata - ISDE Irish Community Profile

The Irish Plan4All portal is currently using the ISDE Irish Community Profile as its default metadata profile (see section 2.3.2). The Irish Community Profile has undergone several revisions to keep inline with the changes to the INSPIRE profile.

Fig.6: Metadata Imported into GeoServer

Metadata storage is automatically handled by Geonetwork as plain files. The upload into the server is made interactively by transferring metadata files and doing some basic configurations in the service.

In addition to consultation via the CSW protocol, it is possible to do an interactive direct search  through the Geonetwork web interface. This interface, which lacks the simplicity necessary for many users, will undergo a graphic personalization and then it will be integrated in the map viewer /  website and will not be used on its own anymore. The metadata download in a XML file can be done from the result page in a search.

Fig.7: GeoNetwork user interface

ISDE Community Profile for INSPIRE Spatial dataset

The ISDE Community Profile for INSPIRE Spatial dataset and Spatial dataset series is based on ISO 19115 profile and ISO 19139 schema - Version 1.0. It was developed to open up the ISDE Catalogues, and has just been completed and debugged. It uses approaches and ideas from Plan4all (e.g. WP4,5,6). The ISDE Community Profile facilitates interoperability between all Irish agencies (including Planning Authorities) and makes it easier to find, use and share spatial data resources under INSPIRE.

The ISDE metadata profile for INSPIRE Spatial dataset and Spatial dataset series, identifies the metadata elements required by any organisation to accurately describe these types of spatial resources that can be searched through an INSPIRE (compliant) Discovery Service such as ISDE. The ISDE Community Profile is designed to support the documentation and discovery of terrestrial and marine spatial data resources, recognising the data management and sharing requirements within the ISDE community.

The ISDE Community Profile has been developed in accordance with the rules established by the International Standards Organisation (ie. ISO) by the Marine Institute with guidance by the partners in ISDE. The ISDE Community Profile is a subset of the international standard and includes all ISO 19115 core metadata elements. In addition, the ISDE Community Profile has defined supplementary elements, code-lists and vocabularies to assist in the description of spatial resources. These supplementary elements have been guided by the INSPIRE environmental directive on spatial data resources and have been implemented according to version 1.1 of the INSPIRE Metadata Implementing Rules technical guidelines. The ISDE Community Profile has used the ‘Marine Community Profile of ISO 19115’ Version 1.4 produced by the Australian Ocean Data Centre as a template guide as shown in the following figure: 

Fig 8: ISDE Community Profile Structure

 Links

The links to the Irish Case Study services and other important tools are as follows:

Geosite           http://gis.mac.ie/geonetwork

WMS/WFS service                http://gis.mac.ie/geoserver/wms?Request=GetCapabilities

Map viewer     http://gis.mac.ie/geoserver

CSW service http://gis.mac.ie/geonetwork/srv/en/csw?REQUEST=GetCapabilities&SERVICE=CSW&ACCEPTVERSION=2.0.0,0.7.2&outputFormat=application/xml

Metadata Search (Geonetwork  )         http://gis.mac.ie/geonetwork

INSPIRE Metadata validatorhttp://www.inspire-geoportal.eu/index.cfm/pageid/48

INSPIRE Metadata editor      http://www.inspire-geoportal.eu/index.cfm/pageid/342

• Land cover
• Land use
• Utility and Governmental services
• Production and industrial facilities
• Agricultural and aquaculture facilities
• Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
• Natural risk zones

• Land cover
• Land use
• Utility and Governmental services
• Production and industrial facilities
• Agricultural and aquaculture facilities
• Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
• Natural risk zones

• Land cover
• Land use
• Utility and Governmental services
• Production and industrial facilities
• Agricultural and aquaculture facilities
• Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
• Natural risk zones

The Province of Rome covers an area of 5.352 km² with a population of over 4 million inhabitants and includes 121 municipalities.Province is the local authority in the middle of the relationship among state, regions and communities, it is a mediation body and a point of reference and coordination therefore, for the inhabitats, services, infrastructure of the city of Rome and municipalities belonging to it.

Geosite

Description: the site hosts OGC services which are accessible from any compatible client application and a web viewfinder of maps which provides the basic viewing functions. The web is structured in the following sections:

• Search: find information available using metadata
• OGC services: CWS, WMS, WFS, WCS.
• Downloads: data file download, via HTTP, to use with local applications.
• Map Viewer: a lightweight, web based, map viewer that provides the basic viewing functions for the data

The SDI is fully conformant with standard open source SDIs, according to the following architecture.

Open source SDI architecture (source http://geonetwork-opensource.org)

Where the main components are deployed integrating the following open source technologies:

• Geo-database: PostgreSQL 8.4 along with PostGIS 1.5 spatial extension
• Map server and map services (view, download, SRS transform): Geoserver
• Catalogue management and services: GeoNetwork
• Thin client (web front-end): based on Geoexplorer, GEOExt, Openlayers
• Thick client (desktop front-end, GIS authoring, thematisation):
  • uDig
  • QGis

 
Map viewer

Catalogue configuration/administration/discovery client

Map server configuration/administration client

Infrastructure description

The SDI has been build using opensource tools. Basically, GeoNetwork in order to provide searching services in metadata (CSW), GeoServer in order to provide map/features/visualization/download services (WMS and WFS) and PostgreSQL/PostGIS for vector data and metadata along with filesystem for shapefile data and/or raster.

All services are working in a virtual machine with one processor 2.5 GHz, 2 GB of RAM memory and a Windows Server 2008 32bit operating system.

The published spatial data are stored as spatial tables and as shapefiles.

Technology details

Basically, the technological stack for services is java-based according to the following:

• DBMS with spatial extension, accessed through JDBC
• Java JVM 1.6 as runtime
• Tomcat 6 as application server

To provide a runtime environment to fundamental services components, i.e. GeoNetwork and Geoserver.

All this applications run on a Windows 2008 Server 32bit operating system, but notice that all SDI components are fully cross-platform.

Metadata (Geonetwork)

A catalogue management tool has been provided in order to allow creation, editing and search of metadata. In the following pictures are displayed interfaces of GeoNetwork on sample metadata of a map service.

Metadata in GeoNetwork 

Metadata editing in GeoNetwork

Metadata storage is automatically kept by Geonetwork in the PostgreSQL/PostGIS instance.

Interactive search/download: besides the consultation via CSW protocol, it is possible to do an interactive direct search through the GeoNetwork web interface, which allows also metadata download as PDF or XML.

GeoNetwork metadata search/access/download

Data (Geoserver)

Data from different layers are available both as spatial tables in a PostgreSQL database (using PostGIS spatial extension) and as shapefiles. This database also provides the necessary support for the Geoserver application.

The light WMS client (the map viewer in our Geosite) has been developed over the Geoexplorer framework, so in Javascript, using the OpenLayers libraries and GEOExt, in order to develop the user´s interface.

The data downloading services are provided through the direct download of files from the appropriate section in the web (HTTP protocol), using the standard Geoserver user interface over registered layers and allowing direct download in different formats through WMS and WFS services.

Preview/download section 

Links

In the following tables are listed the links to SDI services.

You can see the paper presentation below:

• to analyse the requirements on spatial planning metadata given by national legislation.
• to define the European metadata profile (platform neutral) for spatial planning.

• to analyse the requirements on spatial planning metadata given by national legislation.
• to define the European metadata profile (platform neutral) for spatial planning.

• to analyse the requirements on spatial planning metadata given by national legislation.
• to define the European metadata profile (platform neutral) for spatial planning.

Geoportal of Metropolitan Region Hamburg http://www.geoportal.metropolregion.hamburg.de (DE)

Short description: based on MapBender Portal and deegree services
Content: protected sites / urban land use planning / industrial area / commercial area / address data

Geoportal for all planning documents of Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg http://www.hamburg.de/bebauungsplaene-online (DE)

Short description: based on OpenLayers and deegree services
Content: urban land use planning status: legally valid / urban land use planning status: under construction

Introduction

            Gijón is the biggest town within the region of Asturias, in the north-west of Spain. The size of Gijón is 181,7 km2 and the population is over 250.000 inhabitants. The city council developed its own geoportal in order to allow public on-line access to any spatial information which is available in the municipality and also to extend its use to internal applications.

Geosite

IDE Gijón (Gijon SDI) at http://ide.gijon.es

Description: this site hosts OGC services which are accessible from any compatible client application and a web viewfinder of maps which provides the basic viewing functions. The web is bilingual (spanish / english) and is structures in the following sections:

• Search :  find information available using metadata
• OGC services: Instructions to access OGC services: WMS, CWS, WFS,etc.
• Downloads: data file download, vía http, to use with local applications.
• Map Viewer : a lightweight, web based, map viewer that provides the basic viewing functions for the data
• Street Directory: The name says it all!
• Links: relevant or interesting web sites for SDI

Infrastructure description

We have build the site using opensource tools. Basically, GeoNetwork in order to provide searching services in metadata (CSW) and GeoServer in order to provide map/features/visualization services ( WMS and WFS). All services are working in a virtual machine with two processors, 4 Gb. of RAM memory  and a Linux operating system.

The published spatial data are stored in files (.shp format) which are obtained by transforming data which is used at the city town hall and  is originally in CAD applications format.  

The available data, always within the local sphere, are:

• Land cover ( vegetation map)
• Administrative units (boundaries, boroughs, ...)
• Utility and governmental services ()
• Geographical names ( places and lanscapes)
• Transport networks ( roads, rail,…)
• Hydrography ( rivers)

and they are stil growing.

e-UP

“e-UP”is a map web application, which allows easy and user-friendly displaying of a local plan on the web. The main design of the local plan concept, which can be divided into several theme layers, is included among the data layers. A reconnaissance city map, a cadastral map or an orthophoto linked via the WMS web service can be displayed as referential data. Further information layers of the local plan concept – such as territory studies, public works, etc. – can be displayed over these basic layers. The e-UP application is offered in the form of a service.

The e-UP Internet service made for the town of Šumperk under the name “Concept of the Local plan” won in the regional level of the competition Golden Coat of Arms 2010 (Zlatý erb) and was assessed the second best electronic service in the national level.

Available layers

The e-UP is intended for making local plans and related information available to the public in the form of a web application; emphasis is put on clarity and as simple as possible use of the application. Absolutely faithful imaging of local plan designs, including the drawing of all marks, is its great advantage.

The basic variant includes 3 basic layers:

• the main design of the local plan,

• WMS cadastral maps (provided by Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre - ČUZK),

• and WMS orthophoto (provided by Cenia).

Furthermore, the variant includes one optional superimposed layer (VPS – public works), which can be displayed over any of the basic layers.

The map-mail

The possibility of interactive contact between a user and the city-planning department of the relevant office is a significant characteristic of the application. In case, the user finds the information in the web application insufficient and he requires either more precise or broader information, he can mark the location in which he is interested and send an email with a request for information specification via this application.

The responsible employee of the relevant office receives this email including a URL link. By clicking on this link, the location marked by the user is displayed, including the scale and the layers in the same way as the user had them set at the time of his request. This system saves time for citizens because they do not have to visit the office, and it specifies the purpose of the email request for the officer responsible for local planning.

Search for addresses

The e-UP application allows fast localization in a map by means of a search for addresses. After a complete or a partial address (e.g. only a street) has been typed in, the application shows a list of found values, and marks the corresponding results in a map.

Search for plots

The e-UP also allows users to search not only for addresses but also for individual plots. After the number of a plot (including a slash) has been typed in, the application shows a list of found values, and marks the corresponding results in a map.

The interconnection of the graphic and descriptive part of the CP

The interconnection of the graphic and descriptive part of a local plan allows easy orientation in the limitations and conditions of use, which a local plan sets for individual locations. The application is especially valuable for the lay public because every user of the e-UP application can find out relevant measures by a simple click of the mouse on a particular location;he or she does not have to have an in-depth knowledge of local planning or to search for specific information in an extensive textual part of the local plan.

The interconnection of the graphic and descriptive part can be found in the e-UP advanced version, and its scope and form are dependent on the form of available source data and on the quality of received digital data of the local plan.

A connection to “Inspection of Real Estate Cadastre”

The e-UP may also include a function of linking the search for plots with the real estate cadastre available in the web application “Inspection of Real Estate Cadastre.” Users thus can get access to up-to-date data in the cadastre register in a simple way and use them to expand information of the local plan. Connection with the WMS layer of the cadastre map provides up-to-date information on a location in the local plan from both the geospatial and the descriptive perspective.

The concept of the Šumperk local plan

7 designs of the local plan, 3 referential layers, 5 superimposed layers (these can be displayed over any basic layer), interconnection of the graphic and descriptive part.

http://apps.hfbiz.cz/apps/sumperk/up2

he concept of the Olomouc local plan

11 designs of the local plan, 2 referential layers, 3 superimposed layers (these can be displayed over any basic layer), interconnection of the graphic and descriptive part, search for parcels, connection to “Inspection of Real Estate Cadastre.”

http://apps.hfbiz.cz/apps/olomouc/up/up_olomouc_v1.html

Operation of the application

The e-UP application is run on the HF Biz Ltd. server and its operation is offered to towns and municipalities in the form of a service. In practice this means that after signing a contract a municipality which decides to use this service hands over source files of the local plan and therewith its obligations end. The HF Biz Ltd. company adjusts the data and application according to the requirements of the municipality and publishes it on the web. The municipality can include a direct link to this application on its web pages.

The price for the e-UP service includes a one-time fee for the implementation of the service and a regular monthly fee for its operation and maintenance. The price depends on the size of the municipality and on the required functions of the service.

A showcase application of the e-UP in English:

http://apps.hfbiz.cz/apps/mappub/demo2en.html

Contact:

HF Biz Ltd., Slovanská 21, Šumperk, Czech Republic

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Navarre, the Comunidad Foral de Navarra, is situated in the North of Spain, at the western end of the Pyrenees, where it shares a 163-kilometre stretch of frontier with France. It has a land area of 10,421 km2 with a number of unhabitants over 600.000.

The Navarre Geoportal is the meeting point for anybody using information on the region. Through SITNA (Navarre Territory Information System), the Government of Navarre makes a wide-reaching, constantly evolving and growing collection of data, services and resources available to all society.  

One of the main components of SITNA is IDENA, the Spatial Data Infrastructure of Navarre, built up according to INSPIRE, the European Directive stablishing a Spatial Data Infrastructure in Europe.

IDENA Geoportal

IDENA allows users to view maps, to search for geographic information and to download the information needed. The platform is published in http://idena.navarra.es/busquedas/?lang=.

View

IDENA is INSPIRE compliant, that means, it uses Web Map Services as a way to view geographic information -to ensure that any service is standard and interoperable, the technical guidelines are specified by the Open Geospatial Consortium-. These services use the source spatial data to dynamically produce and distribute maps in an image format (usually PNG, GIF or JPEG). Source data is made of aerial images, vectors from a geographically enabled database... It is also possible to visualize single layers as well as maps made of many layers.

Search

A Catalogue Web Service allows searching for the information needed.

As a result, users obtain metadata with detailed information describing data, maps and services.

Download

In case users need the information in the client side, it is possible to download the spatial data in GIS format (SHP).

Infrastructure description

The portal has been built using commercial software: ESRI’s ArcGIS Server and Geoportal Toolkit Extension. The deployment of the platform is based in the capabilities of Tracasa, a public company and the technology provider of the Navarre Government.

Available data is made of 500 layers, such as:

• Cadaster
• Cartopraphy
• Orthophotomaps
• Streets
• Roads
• Hydrography
• Protected areas
• Health
• ...

Technology details

For technical details about the implementation of ArcGIS Server:

http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisserver/9.3/java/index.htm#publish_resource.htm

 For technical details about the documentation of metadata:

http://catmdedit.sourceforge.net/

References 

• Government of Navarre (http://www.navarra.es/home_en/)
• SITNA (http://sitna.navarra.es/geoportal/?lang=)
• IDENA (http://idena.navarra.es/busquedas/?lang=)
• INSPIRE (http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/)
• Open Geospatial Consortium (http://www.opengeospatial.org/)
• TRACASA (http://www.tracasa.es)
• ESRI (http://www.esri.com)

D2.2 Analysis of Innovative Challenges - this deliverable presents the results of task 2.2 which is part of WP2 – the state of the art analysis – and has the objective to analyse latest developments and innovative challenges in SDI building for spatial planning in Europe. The objective of this delive­rable is to assist to pilot partners deploy their infrastructure in WP6.1, to prepare recommenda­tion for possible platforms.

D2.2 Analysis of Innovative Challenges - this deliverable presents the results of task 2.2 which is part of WP2 – the state of the art analysis – and has the objective to analyse latest developments and innovative challenges in SDI building for spatial planning in Europe. The objective of this delive­rable is to assist to pilot partners deploy their infrastructure in WP6.1, to prepare recommenda­tion for possible platforms.

The present deliverable D2.3 “Analysis of INSPIRE requirements” provides an implementation-neutral and INSPIRE oriented set of recommendations for the modelling concepts for geographic data and metadata which will be further developed in WP3 and WP4.

The present deliverable D2.3 “Analysis of INSPIRE requirements” provides an implementation-neutral and INSPIRE oriented set of recommendations for the modelling concepts for geographic data and metadata which will be further developed in WP3 and WP4.

• DataMan
• MapMan

HSLayers (Help Service + OpenLayers) combines capabilities of ExtJS and OpenLayers and several helping scripts to establish truly Web GIS applications. Development started in 2007. In 2009, after 2 years of development, it was released under conditions of GNU General Public License 3.

This application interact with map viewer so it can be added map services into map by one click. Another interaction is with metadata extractor. Documents or web pages stored by extractor can be opened also by one click.

Services can be added from list of predefined services or it can be added by direct link

http://hsforest.jidol.cz/news/

The role of EPF in the project is content provider, because of the strong relations with Bulgarian municipalities and the experience of our team members into GIS applications for regional and spatial planning purposes.

The main objective for EPF within  the Plan4all project is to offer to spatial planners in Bulgaria and operational environment for working with geospatial data,  data models and metadata which are compliant with INSPIRE principles. That will be done trough dedicated geoportal, designed on the base of Plan4all project activities and results

For testing purposes, EPF will deploy spatial planning data for two Bulgarian municipalities- Yambol and Varna.

The Conference will host a Plan4all workshop - programme.

The main objective for Northern Transylvania in the frame of the Plan4all project is to deploy data models and metadata which are compliant with INSPIRE principles on behalf of the main institutions in the region responsible for collecting and processing spatial data, as well as to publish data from the region that is relevant in spatial planning using a dedicated geoportal.

It started with an interim in-house test version, run on open source platforms, followed by an extended version on a test platform made available by Plan4all consortium. The solution used commercial Micka catalogue and open source Geohosting. Finally, following the national decision of the Romanian INSPIRE implementation team to use the Esri platform ArcGIS Server + ArcGIS Geoportal Extension for implementing the INSPIRE Romania geoportal, the North-West RDA selected the same solution (http://geoportal.nord-vest.ro:8080/geoportal).

• Norwegian grant server
• Plan4all server