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Spatial Data Infrastructures

Is there a Future for Spatial Data Infrastructures?

Ulrich Boes, URSIT Ltd. Raina Pavlova, Technical University Sofia, Bulgaria

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Outline

Spatial Data Infrastructures Some Questions on SDIs Value Chain for GI production World Wide Web and its Impact The Geospatial Web Comparison SDI and Geospatial Web Conclusions: the Future

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Spatial Data Infrastructures

A spatial data infrastructure encompasses

policies,

• rganizational remits,

data, technologies, standards, delivery mechanisms and financial and human resources

necessary to ensure that those working at global and regional scale are not impeded in meeting their

• bjectives.

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Access to Data in SDI

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Some Questions

What are the accomplishments? Who are the stakeholders? What are the costs? What are the business models?

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Achievements

First milestone in 1986 Many local, regional, national SDIs First generation: focus on data Second generation: process oriented INSPIRE INSPIRE State of Play

Nowhere in Europe, an SDI is fully

realized

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Who: Stakeholders in SDI

Developers, expert GI users, broader

community, public authorities, academia, private sector

Data producers: public authorities Data users: ?

Public sector, GI service providers Expert GI user 8

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Value Chain for GI

Data Provider Data Integrator Data Specialist

Geoinformation Product End User

SDI ?

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Costs and Benefits

Identification of costs difficult INSPIRE impact assessment

• verall costs: between €200 and 300

million

borne by the public sector and incurred at

regional and local levels

benefits between €1.2 and 1.8 billion a

year

Benefits of new products and services

cannot be identified

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Some Observations

SDIs in early majority phase

Need for re-organization

Stakeholders = public sector Lack of awareness Specialist market

Revenue model defined by high costs of

data creation

Value chain paradox 11

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Internet and WWW

WWW created in 1989 Quickly used to display maps New technologies and innovation

• Remote sensing
• GPS
• Geo-RSS, KML
• Semantic Web
• 3-D

Google Earth (2005): revolution in Internet

mapping

Goal is to add location to Internet content,

not to produce high quality maps

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Collaborative Geospatial Web

Collaborative Cartography,

volunteered geographic information

Mash ups with Google map API Geocoded Hypermedia

Location is added to Internet content User generated content

OpenStreetMap, Craigslist, Dogdeball Social phenomenon (crowdsourcing)

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Value Chain for CGW

Data Provider Data Integrator Data Specialist

Geoinformation Product End User

Private Companies Internet Companies Hacker Surfer

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Comparison SDI and CGW

Mission critical applications Re-organization Major Weakness Mass Specialised Market Advertisement, Affiliate Cost recovery Revenue Model Uptake Data sets Major Strength Private Sector, Internet Users Public Sector Stakeholders Private Data Producer End user Public Data producer Specialist Value Chain

CGW SDI Category

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The Future ?

SDI versus the geospatial web Risk that the GI/SDI sector looses its

identity

Shrinking market for SDI Adoption of Geospatial Web:

an opportunity to open up SDIs

SDI should rethink business models

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Some research questions

Licensing models and IPR Data quality Business and revenue models Organization of content –

Folksonomy vs. Semantics

Models of maps

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Thank you for your attention !

Ulrich BOES

URSIT Ltd, Sofia, Bulgaria South-East European Reseach Centre, Thessaloniki, Greece ulrich.boes@ursit.com

Raina Pavlova

Technical University Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria rsp@tu-sofia.bg