SPATIAL DATA FOR UKRAINE – THE

PROBLEM OF STANDARDIZATION AND

REGULATION

O. Dyshlyk, L., Rudenko, V. Chabanyuk

26-Nov-2015

Institute of Geography, Ukrainian NAS

SE Kievgeoinformatika

ISGEO Ltd.

GeoSolutions Ltd.

GSD Centre of Ukraine

1. Period 1 (1991-1995): National GIS Conception

2. Period 2 (1996-2004):National Atlas of Ukraine, RGIS and

RadAtlas, Ukrainian-Sweden NSDI-Pilot Project -

GeoSolutions Framework (GeoSF)

3. Period 3 (2004-2008): National Atlas of Ukraine-Digital

Version, Atlas Solutions Framework

4. Period 4 (2006-2014): National Level Corporative Spatial

DB in service-oriented architecture (MTS, UkrTelecom)

5. Period 5 (2014-): Modern Vision..

Our Experience

Some thoughts

Introduction

1. National Atlas is model of reality, describing country as a

whole. As usual: nature, economy and population

2. NSDI is model of reality, describing part of country. As usual:

topography (part of nature), part of population, part of

economy

3. Intersection of National Atlas and NSDI is not empty: some

elements of NSDI (may be after some preprocessing) are

included into National Atlas

4. Holland school: [Kraak M.-J., Ormeling F., Köbben B., Aditya T., 2009] The Potential of a

National Atlas as Integral Part of the Spatial Data

Infrastructure Exemplified by the New Dutch National Atlas, pp. 9-20 // SDI Convergence.

Research, Emerging Trends, and Critical Assessment

5. Any National-level Geographical Information System is

including (or should include) elements of NSDI. As minimum

– fundamental data

National GIS Conception project, financed by

Ministry of Science and Technology (1991-1992):

approach to modeling

Period 1

Management Object System (Ukraine)

Management System

Cybernetic

Model of

Management

Object

Geographic

Model of

Management

Object

Geometric

Model of

Management

Object

Cybernetic-

Geographic Model

of Management

Object

Main tasks of the stage 1 (from the National

GIS Conception, 1992)

1. Creation of national scientific-education center of

geoinformatics

2. Creation of national geoinformation center of common

usage (public, private) under the management of

UkrGeodezCartography. National Topographic DataBank

(NTDB) should be the key tool of the center. National GIS

project team have prepared preliminary requirements

specification for NTDB

3. Creation of Automated Cartographic System (ACS) for

the Committee of Statistics. National GIS project team have

prepared preliminary requirements specification for ACS

Period 1

Period 1

Only by means of a full understanding of the tasks

may we find means relevant to their solution. It is

more important for the result to put correct questions

than to give correct answers to wrong questions.

CHRISTIAN NORBERG-SCHULZ

(from [Klir G.J., 1985] Architecture of Systems

Problem Solving.-Springer)

Positive and Negative consequences from

National GIS Conception realization

1. National GIS commission was created (functioned few

years) – positive fact

2. UkrGeodezCartography (UGC) decided to create

(topographic) Automated Cartographic System (TACS, 1993

or 1994) instead of not National topographic databank

(NTB), reasoned by National GIS Conception – very

negative fact

3. We still suppose that decision to create TACS instead of

NTB was very big strategic mistake, which start process of

UGC disappearance from the country management

4. As a result, NGIS Conception lost actuality in 1996 or 1997

Period 1

Period 2 main activities

1. Atlas of Ukraine, 2000 - on the Committee of Statistics data.

This Atlas is created instead of ACS for Committee of

Statistics, reasoned by National GIS Conception. First

National-level electronic Atlas in Ukraine

2. Radioecological GIS of 12 contaminated oblasts of Ukraine,

1996-2001, and Atlas of Radioactive contamination of

Ukraine, 2002. First National-level GIS in Ukraine

3. GeoSolutions Framework (GeoSF), 2001-2003, the result

Ukrainian-Swedish project “Capacity building for National

Spatial Data Infrastructure creation in Ukraine”, 2000-2003,

and French-German Initiative for Chornobyl, 1998-2003

Period 2

Period 2

Definition of NSDI (one of, used in 2001) The Permanent Committee on GIS Infrastructure for Asia and the Pacific

Institutional Framework which defines the policy, legislative

and administrative arrangement for building, maintaining,

accessing and applying standards to fundamental datasets

Technical Standards which define the technical

characteristics of fundamental datasets

Fundamental Datasets which include the geodetic

framework, topographic databases and cadastral

databases

Technological Framework which enables users to identify

and access fundamental datasets forming the basis of a

national or regional land administration, land rights and

tenure, resource management and conservation and

economic development

PROBLEMS WITH SPATIAL DATA PRODUCTION

Period 2

GeoSF definition, 2001-2003

Typical solution of typical problem in given

context is pattern

GeoSolutions Framework (GeoSF) is system

of patterns, representing Fundamental

Datasets, Technical Standards,

Technological Framework, Institutional

Framework and their relationships

Framework is architectural pattern, built for

the specific problem domain

Period 2

GeoSF as a tool for NSDI

realization

• Creation of Geo Solutions

Framework (GeoSF) as system of

clear defined enterprise-oriented frameworks

and patterns

• Distribution / implementation of GeoSF in

Ukrainian geoinformation enterprises

Period 2

Publications

Products

Basics

Processes

Services

General structure of GeoSF

Period 2

Case 1: day-to-day Enterprise

Management System (EMS)

sGeoSF EMS sGeoSF filling

NSDI project

main result Final result –

real-working

system

Structured

instruction - how to

use sGeoSF to create

a system/object

Process of final object

creation. Instruction and

predefined rules are used

to achieve needed result

HowToUse

GeoSF

Period 2

Case 2: Projects

Implementation Environment

(PIE)

sGeoSF PIE sGeoSF filling

NSDI project

main result Final result –

real-working

system

Structured

instruction - how to

use sGeoSF to create

a system/object

Process of final object

creation. Instruction and

predefined rules are used

to achieve needed result

HowToUse

GeoSF

GeoCompany Enterprise

Architecture with GeoSF

«Use»

Publications

Products Processes

Services

«Use»

«Use»

«Use»

«Use» «Use»

«Use» «Use»

«Use»

«Use»

GeoSF

Period 2

2007: National Atlas of Ukraine, full version

1.0, 875 maps, DVD, 5000 copies

Period 3

AtlasSF is specialization

of GeoSF for “atlas”

activity

«Use»

Publications

Products Processes

Services

«Use»

«Use»

«Use»

«Use» «Use»

«Use» «Use»

«Use»

«Use»

AtlasSF

Period 3

Enterprises:

Intelligence Systems

Geo, Ltd.

Institute of Geography

Application framework of atlas solutions AtlasSF

RadAtlas on CD ElNAU on DVD

AtlasSF Usage

AtlasSF instantiation and map conversion

RadAtlas

_Edited

ElNAU

_Edited

Application Stratum

Operational Stratum

Products

Publications

Processes

Services Basics

Period 3

AtlasSF application

AtlasSF Some Atlas

or AtIS AtlasSF filling/usage

NSDI project

result Final result –

real-working

system

Structured

instruction - how to

use AtlasSF to create

a atlas/AtIS

Process of final object

creation. Instruction and

predefined rules are used

to achieve needed result

HowToUse

AtlasSF

Period 3

“Classic” atlases and Atlas information

Sysmes, created in 2000-2010 2000 2001 2001

2002 2002 (2008) 2003

2005 2006 2007 (2010)

Period 3

Period 4

ElNAU portal conception and prototype, 2007

Organizational context /

level

Language context /

Infological level

Technological context /

Datalogical level

General stratum

Part of reality (Geosystem),

which is modeled by AtIS

Operational stratum

Relations

Conceptual stratum

Application stratum Relations

Relations

Rela

tion

s

Rela

tion

s

Relations

“Classical” Atlas Information System (AtIS) Conceptual Framework

Period 5

AtIS Conceptual

Framework

Період 5

Період 5

Base Map structure

Період 5

Base Map in “classical” atlases

βBasics

Base-Map

GeoOb-jectsDB

Conver-sionSW

1 Exchange-FormatDescr 2 Glossaries 3 LegalBasis 4 InernGeo-Standards

NatGeo-Classifiers

Other-Patterns

Base-Map 1:1,000,000

1:200,000

2000-200x

Period 5

Base Map under changes now

βBasics

Base-Map

GeoOb-jectsDB

Conver-sionSW

1 Exchange-FormatDescr 2 Glossaries 3 LegalBasis 4 InernGeo-Standards

NatGeo-Classifiers

Other-Patterns

1:50,000

200x-2015

Google Maps /

OpenStreetMap

GeoPlatforms

Base-Map

?

BASE MAP

1. Topography

2. Addresses Administrative and territorial division

3. Cadastral Data

4. RS Data

Data standardization is realized through connections

between this subsystems.

http://atu.gki.com.ua/ua/pro-nas):

Сучасний стан Базових наборів геопросторових даних - НДІГК

Найкрупніший масштаб представлення даних 1:2 000

Integration Joint Map of Ukraine Topography Information

Classificator

«Тopograpy» Subsystem in 50K Joint Map of Ukraine

The main feature of geospatial data standardization is that the data of each subsystem are available for use in the process of information integration on different levels. Главным признаком стандартизации пространственных данных есть тот факт, что данные с каждой подсистемы пригодны для использования в процессе интеграции данных на разных уровнях

Територія Шацького НПП в Національному атласі

України

Джерелом даних є Публічна кадастрова карта України (http://map.land.gov.ua/kadastrova-karta)

«Cadaster» and «RS-Data» SubSystems

«Cadaster» and «RS-Data»

«Cadaster» and «RS-Data» SubSystems

Base Map in OSKARI

Lessons learned

Lessons

• To create systems like NSDI we need to create

“classical” NSDI objects of all 3 levels on

Conceptual stratum and Solutions frameworks,

which are uniting objects from General and

Application strata

• Relations between objects have higher priority

than objects itself

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