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SESSION NATIONAL SDI
GI & SDI as part of national and federal eGovernment– Status and
Perspective for the work of the Chambers of Commerce and Industry
A. Fritzsche,
Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) for Munich and Upper Bavaria,
Max-Joseph-Straße 2, D-80333 Munich,
fritzsche@muenchen.ihk.de, http://www.muenchen.ihk.de, http://www.sisby.de
Introduction
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) for Munich and Upper Bavaria is like any 81Chambers in
Germany a self-administering body under public law for any individual company of industry, trade and
services. Every company in Germany is member of a Chamber of Industry and Commerce, besides crafts
enterprises, professionals and agricultural enterprises. The Chamber of Industry and Commerce represents,
democratically authorised, every particular industrial sector independent from the size of the enterprise. The
main tasks are the representation of interests concerning economy, sovereign functions and assistance for
companies.
The German State has assigned to the Chambers certain tasks which would be in its own responibility like, e.g.
vocational and professional training, issuing and authentication foreign trade documents. In the spatial context
of public functions of the chambers have to make assessments or expert opinions for planning and business
development on local, regional and state level. Against that background it is obvious that the chambers are part
of eGovernment. Also the geographic information has its vital role to play in the economic and social
development of a modern, efficient state. Due to the assigned functions and various services of the Chambers
there is a significant demand of standarized interchanges and services of GI & SDI.
Steps toward SDI in Germany
The German Government recognized relevance of SDI to the national economy and regarding to “cut the red
tape” of GI. Thus a governmental commission already in 1998 established the IMAGI (Interministerial
Committee for Geo Information). On the poltical level in 2003 the CEOs of the Federation and States together
with the Federal State Secretaries for eGovernment set up a new organisational structure, called GDI-DE ®
(Geodateninfrastruktur Deutschland) to promote the development of a German National Spatial Datainfrastructure
and creating an adjusted concept according to ESDI.
One of the fundamental elements of GDI-DE are the harmonisation and implementation of all necessary
geodata with the required services through the internet. To improve cooperation between the Federal States
GDI-BY (Geodateninfrastruktur Bayern) is one of 16 representatives of the German SDI. In this state
initiatives the CCI for Munich and Upper Bavaria is a member in Bavaria of GDI-BY.
On the conceptional level, a kind of interface between Administration and Industry the Commission of
Geoinformation Business (Kommission für Geoinformationswirtschaft, GIW-K) was established in 2004 by
the former Ministry of Economics and Labor (now Technology) where besides most of the GI-interested
associations also the Association for German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK) is integrated. On
the conceptional level both, GDI-DE und GIW-K implemented pilot projects following the idea „some-for-all“
based on international standards to get technology and knowledge transfer between Federation, States and
Municipalities.
CCI & SDI first steps on National - Practical Steps on Federal State Level
The DIHK and the CCI for Munich and Upper Bavaria are involved in “Administrative Borders” a subproject
of the Landuse-Project at the GIW-K. Main target in this subproject is the promotion of nation-wide
standarized geowebservices (WMS) for spatial base data and if relevant for economy or site information,
spatial thematic data. These services should be based on practical, uniform contracts with simple billing
models (flaterates) for easy access of the users. In this subproject Bavaria has been selected as a starting
region.
On Federal State level the Land Surveying Office Bavaria already offers (in the framework of GDI-BY)
stanardized OGC-conform WMS for spatial base data and different webbased basic components of GI-
Viewing-Applications for certain topics. GDI-BY is integral part of the eGovernment strategy in Bavaria in
accordance of national and international GI & SDI developments.
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