NSDI: State of Play

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NSDI State of Play
Name François Salgé Country France

• as Molière's M. Jourdain "le bourgeois
  Gentilhomme" France is creating a NSDI without
  knowing it
• Thus NSDI is not per se an issue in the French
  context!!!
• The current ISSUE is the RGE following the MP
  report on IGN and the information society
• Not very high in the recent political agenda

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NSDI State of Play Organizational and
fundamental aspects

• Foundation
• France from François 1er to 1982 centralised
  and since 1982 the new way to decentralisation
• 22 régions, 99 départements, 36 000 communes, 60
  M inhabitants, 550 000 km², 365 kind of cheese
• 1986 CNIG Policy advisor on GI
• 1986 AFIGéO place where Public/Private actors
  meet
• 1994-2002 100 "Comités départementaux de
  l'information géographique"

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NSDI State of Play Organizational and
fundamental aspects

• Local SDIs data services (cadastre, ortho,
  topo) for local partners
• Region PACA joint initiative from decentralized
  ministries and "conseil régional
• Dept Vendée collective initiative from Mayors
  led by MEP
• Dept Haute Savoie initiative from "conseil
  général"
• "Grand Lyon" from Lyon city to the Urban
  Community

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NSDI State of Play Organizational and
fundamental aspects

• Standards
• since 1994 EDIGéO
• 1992-1998 chairmanship of CEN/TC 287
• 1998 ENv as experimental French standards
• National referencing system RGF93 based on
  Euref
• On going work on "common framework for
  interoperability of administration information
  systems" (e-France / ATICA)

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NSDI State of Play Organizational and
fundamental aspects

• Legal framework
• law directly refering to GI "obligation de
  rattachement", new continuous census, cadastre
  (role of chartered surveyors)
• many laws indirectly referering to GI
  decentralisation sustainable development, urban
  renewal
• future law on Information Society

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NSDI State of Play Organizational and
fundamental aspects

• Funding four main mechanisms
• 100 public funding (often with public
  tendering)
• rasterisation of cadastral maps, electronic
  nautical charts
• geodesy, aerial survey
• local governments' GIS
• Barter
• vectorisation of cadastral maps loc gvt and
  utilities funding the initial capture, Cadastral
  service updating for free to the partners
• "tour de table" or "adding allocation to gvt
  subidies"
• partial public funding subsidies licence fees
• most of NMA products
• no public funding pre investments and return on
  investments

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NSDI State of Play Organizational and
fundamental aspects

• NON GI perspectives
• Master plan for the entry of France into the
  Information Society
• State modernisation and new ways of governance
• assignment of general interest services mission
  against contract conditions
• New issue from the public tendering rules
• how to avoid the Ministry of agriculture to go
  for a call for tender while the ministry of
  public transport is "half" funding the orthophoto
  component of the RGE

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NSDI State of Play Roles and responsibilities

• Cadastre department of Min economy, finance and
  industry - 100 funded
• nautical chart department of Min of defence -
  100 - itemized budget
• statistics department of Min economy, finance
  and industry - 100 - itemized budget
• NMA "établissement public" of Min of public
  works with a "CA" - 50 - idependent budget
• intergovernmental organisation for GI CNIG

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NSDI State of Play Organizational and
fundamental aspects

• Intellectual property rights and pricing
• IPR is not an issue as the existing law
  (including database directive) covers the issue
• pricing is not an issue as it is a consequence of
  the funding mechanisms
• Educational aspects
• "école d'ingénieur" versus universities
• setting up of a high level French geomatic
  training system
• Geoformation portal

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NSDI State of Play Content

• geodetical service permanent GPS service (NMA,
  municipalities, universities, etc.)
• Core data Référentiel Géographique à grande
  Echelle, nautical charts
• Other data digital geological maps, cadastral
  maps (to support taxes collection) AND access to
  ENVIRONMENTAL DATA
• Semantic interoperability RGE, continuous
  updating, NMA's integrator role

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NSDI State of Play Data documentation

• ENv metadata in use with free software available
  on line (Reports V2)
• metadata catalogue on coastal zone
• departmental GI committee
• all specifications should be made public

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NSDI State of Play Access to information

• Discovery services
• old fashion non maintained CNIG "catalogue des
  sources"
• planed observatory
• Data access and geoprocessing services
• EDIGéO library
• free co-ordinate transformation software
• National commission for informatics and liberty

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NSDI State of Play

• User expectations and benefit objectives of the
  infrastructure
• Driving applications
• free access to environmental data, risk
  management
• all applications in local governement local
  planning, citizenship debates, third party
  "oposability"
• creation of "établissements publics de
  coopération intercommunale" and "schema de
  coherence territoriale and Urbanism local plans,
• eGovernment, eEurope
• strengthening contact with PM "agency for ICT in
  the admin"
• Territorial information systems with shared GI at
  departemental level
• Exploitation of public information
• as for any public information