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Spatially enabling Northern Ireland
Dr Suzanne McLaughlinDFP Land & Property Services
GIS Ireland Conference 11th October 2012
http://www.gistrategyni.gov.uk/
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NI GI Strategy Vision
We will improve services and thereby develop the
economy, the environment, and the society of
Northern Ireland by placing information about
location at everyone’s fingertips and supporting the
development of sufficient skills and knowledge to
exploit this information.
The current state….
Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)
The aim of the INSPIRE Directive is to create a European Spatial Data Infrastructure that will improve the sharing of spatial information between public authorities and improve accessibility to the public. This will allow the EC and Member States to design and deliver better environmental policies that will result in improved environmental outcomes. INSPIRE will improve the quality of spatial information and enable information from different sources to be more easily combined.
INSPIRE
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The EU INSPIRE Regulations require member states to:
• Comply with 34 data specifications • Provide catalogues for discovery services that allow
users to identify what information is available & evaluate it (metadata)
• Provide online services such as view & download • Provide transformation services – co-ordinate &
schema • Have licensing arrangements that allow information to
be shared, accessed and used
• Set up e-commerce arrangements where charging is applicable
• Introduce monitoring mechanisms
LPS Role
• Co-ordinating INSPIRE in Northern Ireland• Guidance from DEFRA & Europe• Promotion of good practice• Providing technical infrastructure to allow
Northern Ireland to meet INSPIRE requirements
• Management of INSPIRE portal• Licensing and rights management
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INSPIRE ThemesAnnex I Annex II Annex III
Geographical names Elevation Statistical units Buildings
Administrative units Land cover Mineral resources Sea regions
Addresses Ortho-imagery Natural risk zones Land use
Cadastral parcels Geology Soils Energy Resources
Transport networks Species distribution Habitats & biotopes
Hydrography Environmental monitoring facilities
Human health & safety
Protected sites Population dist. & demography Utility & government services
Coordinate reference systems
Meteorological features Atmospheric conditions
Geographical grid systems
Agricultural and aquaculture facilities
Bio-geographical regions
Oceanographic features Production & industrial facilities
Area management restriction / regulation zones & reporting units
53 datasets from 11 organisations
Spatial NI™
UK & EU linkages
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INSPIREcompliant
view servicesavailable for Annex I & II
datasets
November2011
May2011
Initial viewservices
available for Annex I & II
Datasets
December2010
Metadataavailable for Annex I & II
Datasets
January2015
NewlyCollected
Annex II & IIIDatasets
compliant toINSPIRE
specifications
June2012
Download services for Annex I & II
Datasets
NewlyCollected Annex I datasets
compliant toINSPIRE
specifications
December2013
Metadataavailable for
Annex IIIdatasets
Viewservices
available for Annex IIIdatasets
Download services for
Annex IIIdatasets
June2017
Publish Annex I
INSPIREcompliant
data
May2019
Publish Annex II & III
INSPIREcompliant
data
INSPIRE timeline
Objectives of Spatial NI to meet the requirements of the INSPIRE Directive to unlock spatial data in organisations and government to make
government spatial data available to citizens and the private sector
to assist in policy making in Northern Ireland government – better data = better decision making
to eliminate duplicated effort in capturing and maintaining spatial data
to increase demand for public sector spatial data to facilitate the sharing of spatial data across government to provide a platform for the development of GI applications
within and beyond Northern Ireland
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Structure
Existing Licences
Northern Ireland Mapping Agreement
LPS Digital 2
Individual VAR
New Licences
Non-commercial INSPIRE
Preview
Emergency
Northern Ireland Mapping Agreement
Roles
• Guest• NIMA• Emergency• Commercial
Demo…
Technical benefits
• Ability to share data through use of common technical standards
• Flexibility of delivery of data formats• Simpler and faster to find and access data• Reduces need to store large volumes of data onsite • Increased integration through transformation• Improved information management – data currency and
flowlines• Simplified licensing driving increased use
Policy benefits….
• Providing data for identifying potential innovation & growth areas
• Increased range of data available for analysis • Increased quality of data available – through feedback
on datasets• Interoperable cross-border data available for decision
making in border regions• Free GI tools to aid policy decisions
What overall benefits do we expect?
• More access to government information – through discovery services• Potentially wider reuse of NI data through UK and European portals• Promoting reuse of government data • Reducing duplication of data – collect once use many times• Assist in driving better quality data by initially having to expose bad quality
data and then transform to INSPIRE standards – data and metadata• Better quality data – better decisions• Reduced cost to LPS of delivering data – reduced cost of organisations
having to hold all LPS data• Increased currency of data – always coming from the one most recent
source of the data• Consistent cross border datasets of huge significance to NI in policy
decision making • Provision of GI functionality at no cost to user • Delivering more for less
Links
• https://www.spatialni.gov.uk• http://www.gistrategyni.gov.uk/• http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/• http://data.gov.uk/