Norway Digital

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Norway Digital
The Norwegian governments initiative to
build the national geographical infrastructure
John Naustdal Director Land Mapping Division
Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority
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Norway Digitala new structure for
co-operation and data exchange

• More geographic information to more users in new
  ways

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The model
Free of charge internet solutions
Commercial users
Distributors
Norway digital
Norsk Eiendomsinfor-masjon as
Public users outside ND
Municipalities
VAR
Counties
Extranet between partners
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Long tradition for public partnerships

• 1992 - 6 national public authorities agrees on a
  national mapping program generating 100 mill nok
  per year
• 1997 - 20 public bodies, 100 municipalities and
  18 county governors join a program for thematic
  geographic information
• All partners - and the private industry use
  common standards - SOSI
• 2007 - a national integrated property information
  system - with all municipalities participating

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Norway Digital- why?

• White paper on GI - Norway digital - in 2003
• Not sufficient funding for establishing and
  updating of basic GI in todays regime
• Take advantage of new technology in partnership
  based on common standards

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Who can participate in Norway Digital

• The white paper records that -
• all public departments which either have a
  geodata responsibility or are considerable users
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• shall contribute in establishment, maintainance
  and distribution of the ND-contents.
• The co-operation will be based on mutual binding
  agreements. This gives each part common access to
  the information they need, and they will take
  part to guarantee a national solution.

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EU - Norway Digital - Inspire - sharing a Vision

• Data should be collected once and maintained at
  the level where this can be done most effectively
• it should be possible to combine seamless spatial
  information from different sources and share it
  between many users and applications
• it should be possible for information collected
  at one level to be shared between all the
  different levels, high resolution for detailed
  investigations, general for strategic purposes

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Partners in Norway Digital

• Municipalities and Counties
• Governmental agencies
• Excisting public partnerships
• Companies (private) with national interests and
  data that will contribute to the national
  infrastructure

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The municipalities in Norway digital

• To ensure a complete and comprehensive NSDI the
  most important player in Norway digital are
  the municipalities
• The municipalities carry the major costs in
  establishing large scale map DBs, the
  PAB-register and DPMs
• Norway digital shall not give the
  municipalities an extra burden
• On the contrary, Norway digital shall give the
  municipalities more and better accesible PSI

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Financing Norway Digital

• Each participant must agree to a divided solution
  which implies
• a co-financing of the basic geodata
• an obligation to deliver their own thematic
  information
• NMCA has in co-operation with some of our
  closest existing partners agreed on the following
  principles of financing
• free access to all data - for all partners
• each partners annual payment based on
  cost/benefit
• each partner will be classified, based on the
  size and the organisation

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User rights and ownership

• Full access to all data and rights to use the
  data in own task management - except commercial
  activity
• The ownership to data will remain with the main
  investors

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Geodata portal- geonorge.no
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Why will the NMCA succeed with Norway digital ?

• Because it
• builds on already existing role models as
  Geovekst and Arealis, where already more than
  90 of the municipalities participate
• is a leading nation on international
  standardisation the national geodata
  standard SOSI was implemented 20 yrs ago, chair
  ISO/TC211
• has developed object oriented primary
  geographical databases
• has wide access to broad band, internet and
  taylor made management systems for location
  based information
• NMCA as coordinator is totally integrated with
  geodesi, topography and hydrography, cadastre
  and land registration in one and same
  organisation
• NMCA has no commercial activities
• Full support from government and parliament
• All putting us in a unique position to succeed !

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