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Germany Player Type Sectors Products Turnover Staff DDGI: German Umbrella Organisation for Geoinformation Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (BKG) Governmental Agency under the federal Ministry of Interior CG, LG, Tra, Uti, Tel, LBS, Def ESRI CG, LG, Tra, Uti, Tel, LBS Intergraph CG, LG, Tra, Uti, Tel, Deutsches CG, LG, Uti, Fernerkundungsdatenzentrum (DFD) Tel, Def Infoterra CG, LG, Tra, Uti, Tel, Env Netsolut GmbH CG, LG, Tra, Uti, Tel, LBS ARCInfo ARCIMS GeoMedia IKONOS Landsat SPOT Orbview-3 portalMap24 businessMap24 businessMap24 Easy mailMap24 link2Map24 freeMap24 1Mill (budget approx 25 Mill) 15 Mill 80 450 Mill (small % for GI) 300 (2003) 5,000 (small % for GI The National GI Association in Germany is the Deutscher Dachverband für Geoinformation (DDGI - German Umbrella Organisation for GI) (http://www.ddgi.de) bringing together all the GI institutional players and data providers from across the country, with members from the private sector and academia. It is an interdisciplinary, official, non-profit and neutral organisation that aims at optimising the economical use of GI by quality and contents’ standardization, and improving the availability and usability of GI. Through its initiatives it promotes synergy across the main stakeholders at state level, and linkages to the European dimension via EUROGI. The structure of Germany has often been compared to a mini-Europe, with many independent states/regions (Länder) under the umbrella of an overall administration (the federal government). In the GI world there are three main organisations which play key roles in the public sector: The Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (BKG) (Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy) (www.bkg.bund.de) is a federal authority reporting to the Federal Ministry of the Interior and is in effect the German National Mapping Organisation. The BKG is responsible for national geodetic framework, small scales mapping, and international activities, while the responsibility for acquisition and provision of basic (large scale) topographic data and technical geodata mainly belongs to the Länder. In more detail, the responsibilities of BKG comprise: - provision of basic geodata for the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany; - advice to the Federal Government in the fields of geodesy and geo-information; - representation of the interests of the Federal Government at international level. In the field of Geodesy BKG is the provider of planimetry, altimetry and gravimetry networks of the Federal Republic of Germany. The service is based on methods such as Very-Long-Baseline- Interferometry to quasars (VLBI), Laser Ranging to Satellites (SLR) and to the moon (LLR), Global Positioning System GPS and GLONASS. BKG operates about 30 other GPS stations in Germany, Europe and Antarctica, contributing to the international GPS service for the definition of the global reference system and position determinations. The German GPS Permanent Stations Network GREF forms the connection to the satellite positioning service SAPOS (reference system of the state surveying and mapping agencies of Germany developed by AdV). BKG contributes substantially to international cooperation projects serving the set-up and maintenance of geographic data bases at the European and global level, for example EuroGlobalMap, EuroRegionalMap, and SABE. A metadata information system informs users about the availability and quality of such data as a central service on behalf of AdV (see below). To co-ordinate the GI activities of the Länder, and applications across the boundaries of the individual Länder, the Federal Government established the "Interministerieller Ausschuss für Geoinformationswesen (IMAGI)" (Interdepartmental Committee for Geoinformation) (www.imagi.de) in Survey of key GI players within Europe Page 34
1988 and transferred its secretariat to the BKG. The members of IMAGI all are federal ministries and IMAGI tries to organize effective data collection and exchange among them. The third body in the German public sector GI picture is the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Vermessungsverwaltungen der Länder der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (AdV) (Working Committee of the Surveying Authorities of the States of the Federal Republic of Germany) (www.advonline.de). The state survey offices of the Länder, responsible for the state survey and the real estate cadastre, cooperate with AdV to discuss technical matters of fundamental and supra-regional importance with a view to agreeing uniform regulations. The necessary resolutions are passed by the plenum of the AdV. In this way AdV can be seen as a co-ordination body, developing agreed standards and working practices, and representing the Länder at both Federal and international levels. Also belonging to the AdV are the BKG, the Military Geographic Service and the waterway transport department of the Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing. Guests are the Federal-Regional task force for rural development and the German Geodetic Commission. AdV provides common documentation of the geodata available and a pricing policy, and coordinates data collection. There is a general arrangement between the federal administration and the Länder on the production of topographic data and maps. All scales larger than 1:200,000 are the responsibility of the Länder, whilst the smaller scales are compiled by BKG. In the development of a national SDI GI data is being standardised in accordance with ISO/OGC to create homogenous topographic data objects (1:10k to 1: 1Million), and cadastral data (1:500 - 1: 5k) as part of the multipurpose land cadastre database known as GDI-DE. The foundations of the GDI-DE are ATKIS, the Authoritative Topographic Cartographic Information System and ALKIS (the cadastral database). At the regional level some interesting examples are emerging of Public/Private Partnerships and cofunding. One key player in terms of innovative GI development (in this case regional SDI) is the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). The State is unique in Germany because data about land ownership is managed not at the state level, but by large cities and counties. The variety of software tools used across the state had provided extensive technological freedom, but made data sharing difficult. “Realising geographic information as a basic economic good” 28 , NRW has therefore started to set up the GDI NRW, based upon GI international norms and standards. The initiative is seen as crucial to the stimulation of the GI market. The GDI NRW is part of a general software initiative the Minister President of NRW started in 1999 with the aim of stimulating the NRW software market. The GDI NRW is intended to provide solutions for technical, legal socio-economic and institutional questions regarding an open GI market, co-ordinated under the leadership of a GI committee with representatives from the Minister President’s Office, the Ministry of the Interior, the DDGI and the software initiative. The technical basis of the GDI NRW is an open geographic data network following the OpenGIS concepts and the ISO TC 211 standards. Access to all available public and private data in NRW is possible using a central geographical data clearing-house. An important factor in the creation of the GDI is the intention of liberalising access to publicly held data, and securely transferring data via the Internet. The project is also an important “test bed” for socio-economic aspects such as pricing and licensing and e-commerce solutions. The GDI NRW is closely connected with another project in NRW called GEOBASIS.NRW. The aim of this project is to establish network-based GIS solutions for local communities integrating all geographical data handled by the communities, the basis of which will be the German cadastral standard (ALKIS). The challenge of the project is interoperability within towns and counties, because in most cases different GI systems are installed for different applications. Therefore, in this project also, component-based architecture following the rules of OpenGIS is being developed. The communities will be part of the GDI network and their data will be provided to the GDI by special servers. GEOBASIS.NRW includes more than 100 participants from towns and counties, GIS companies, state institutions and public and private users. 5 pilot scenarios will be established representing the situation in NRW 29 . Back in 1999 Landesvermessungsamt NRW (the State mapping agency) were, along with Intergraph, Microsoft, the Deutche Post Direkt GmbH, Rapid Eye AG, and IMMO-CHECK GmbH, a partner in the Terramapserver project. The company set up to manage the project, Terra Map Server GmbH was described at the time as “setting up Germany’s first internet portal for geographic data on the basis of the so called terramapserver, which with its 51,000 Gigabyte is the largest geodata server in Europe” 30 28 JRC Workshop Paper 29 OGC Press Release, Apr 2001 30 Geoinformatics, Issueonline, Oct/Nov 2000 Survey of key GI players within Europe Page 35
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Page 3 and 4: CONTENTS Introduction..............
Page 5 and 6: Introduction This survey of key GI
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Page 65 and 66: The Norges Geologiske Undersøkelse
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United Kingdom Player Type Sectors
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Earth-observation satellite systems
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Europe, and it would appear that no
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separate study to analyse all the p
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Annex 1 - Glossary ABGI Advisory Bo
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Annex 2 - Directory 1: Organisation
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Blom ASA Høybråtenveien 13 B, N-1
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Conseil National de l’information
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Dices.net C/ José Silva 11, 3-D, 2
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ESRI ITALIA Tel Fax email info@esri
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Forest Management Institute Brandys
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Geological Survey of Sweden HQ: Vis
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HM Land Registry Headquarters 32 Li
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Istituto Idrografico della Marina (
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MALLON Technology Ltd Unit 6 Derryl
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OMNI Resources 1004 South Mebane St
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SCOT Parc Technologique du Canal, 1
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Swissphoto Group AG Dorfstrasse 53,
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Annex 6 - Directory 5: Hardware Pro
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