Re: Spain's geoportal

Wolfgang,

You make an interesting observation. I'm sorry o say that I do not have the details behind the decision, but I think the real news here --apart from the collection method-- is that the national government and 17 regional communities are getting together to agree on how to co-finance common ortho productions for the entire nation...breaking the status quo of uncoordinated, multiple data collections of the same areas. This step clearly seems to be in the direction of the true definition of SDI: not so much technology as *agreements to cooperate* in the area of GI.

cheers
Mike Gould

Steinborn wrote:

> ..............announcement of a national orthophoto project
>
>> (annual flights), ................
>
>
> Dear Michael,
>
> why don't they take satellite imagery (Quickbird, IKONOS..). They are
> doing meanwhile a better job for a lower price (e.g. the whole of
> Cyprus, parts of Portugal, Luxembourg, Belgium are producing their
> orthophotos from them).
>
> Kind regards Wolfgang
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Gould" <gould@lsi.uji.es>
> To: <320052219146-0001@t-online.de>; "EGIP List" <egip@jrc.it>
> Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 4:55 PM
> Subject: Spain's geoportal
>
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Thanks to Frank and other for keeping us informed on what is
>> happening around Europe SDI-wise.
>> I suppose we should have announced a while back, that Spain's SDI
>> geoportal project is under way.
>>
>> http://www.idee.es
>>
>> The contract to build the first round portal was given to University
>> of Zaragoza representing the TeIDE consortium (Univs Zaragoza, Jaume
>> I, and Politechnic of Madrid) and, as you can see --if the servers
>> cooperate-- basic web mapping and catalog searches are already possible.
>>
>> The IDEE (SDI Spain) project is lead and directed by the Consejo
>> Superior Geográfico, a national council of GI-related bodies at
>> federal, regional community and local levels. The main "champion" of
>> the effort is Sebastián Mas, subdirector of IGN Spain, who has done a
>> wonderful job of creating enthusiasm and in channelling collaboration
>> and consensus.
>>
>> The IDEE celebrated its first large-scale open event, a public
>> kick-off of sorts, in Zaragoza this past 4-5 November. 280 people
>> attended, paper presentation sessions, workshops, demos, and working
>> group sessions were organised, and the event was judged a huge success.
>> http://idee.unizar.es/jidee/inicio/index.html
>>
>> IDEE work is carried out by working groups modelled after the INSPIRE
>> WGs. Among the highlights presented in Zaragoza were advances in a
>> national geospatial metadata profile (DC- and 19115-derived),
>> establishment of a data model WG which is to derive a spatial
>> application schema, announcement of a national orthophoto project
>> (annual flights), and slight progress on data harmonization as per
>> INSPIRE plans.
>>
>> In summary, lots of work still to come, especially regarding data
>> pricing and licensing, but the momentum is looking quite good these
>> days in Spain.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Michael Gould
>> humble participant
>>
>>
>>
>> FH wrote:
>>
>>> While the websites of german [www.IMAGI.de] as well as [www.GeoMIS.de]
>>> don't yet give any information about official decision of MoI for
>>> the competition on
>>> development the German "*GeoPortal*" as a "geo-one-stop" *GDI-DE*
>>> interoperability
>>> solution, now *the winning consortium *has been announced:
>>> PRO DV (Dortmund) together with its sub_contractor GeoTask (Basel)
>>>
>>> *SOURCES:* [*http://www.gisa.ru/19406.html*] --> see image below!
>>> More info is available from:
>>>
>>> *[ http://www.geotask.ch/www/de/News_1.html ]*
>>> 5.11.2004 - GeoPortal.Bund
>>> *GeoPortal.Bund: BMI beauftragt PRO DV und GeoTask*
>>> Dortmund/Basel, 05. November 2004. Die *PRO DV Software AG*,
>>> Systemhaus für prozessoptimierende und geobasierte
>>> Businesslösungen, hat den Zuschlag für den Aufbau des
>>> Geodatenportals des Bundes (‚GeoPortal.Bund’) erhalten....
>>>
>>> and from:
>>>
>>> *[ http://www.prodv.de/aktuell/default.htm ]*
>>> *GeoPortal.Bund: BMI beauftragt PRO DV und GeoTask*
>>> Dortmund, 09. November 2004. Die PRO DV Software AG, Systemhaus
>>> für prozessoptimierende und geobasierte Businesslösungen, hat den
>>> Zuschlag für den Aufbau des Geodatenportals des Bundes
>>> (‚GeoPortal.Bund’) erhalten. Das Projekt wird PRO DV als
>>> Generalunternehmer gemeinsam mit dem Schweizer Kooperationspartner
>>> GeoTask realisieren. Im Zentrum stehen die internetbasierte,
>>> barrierefreie und interoperable Geodatensuche sowie Bereitstellung
>>> von Geo-Webdiensten auf Basis der Standards des Open Geospatial
>>> Consortiums (OGC).
>>> ... "/Das Projekt hat für uns einen besonderen Stellenwert und ist
>>> Ausgangspunkt für den weiteren Ausbau unserer Position im
>>> wachsenden Markt für Geo Solutions/", kommentiert Uwe Osterkamp,
>>> Vorstand der PRO DV Software AG, die Bedeutung des Auftrags.
>>> "/Dieses Segment mit seinen wesentlichen Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten
>>> wird von uns bereits in wichtigen Bereichen besetzt. Katastrophen-
>>> und Umweltschutz, Infrastrukturplanung und -management sowie
>>> landwirtschaftliche Informationssysteme sind hier exemplarisch zu
>>> nennen. 'GeoPortal.Bund' ist äußerst flexibel und entspricht
>>> nationalen und internationalen Anforderungen gleichermaßen/...
>>>
>>>
>>> 20.11.2004 / fwd. by [FH].
>>> --
>>> Letzter Virus-Test-Report: Freitag, 19. November 2004 19:15
>>> AntiVir®/9x Personal Edition v6.28.00.10 vom 05.11.2004
>>> VDF-Datei v6.28.0.83 (0) vom 19.11.2004
>>> --
>>>
>>> *********************************************************
>>> [The change of paradigm -from GeoData- to Geo-Service-Infrastructures!]
>>> *********************************************************
>>> *********************************************************
>>> [http://directory.eoportal.org/pres_HOFFMANNFrankDr.html] <> [FH].
>>> [ DE-NAC-GeoPositionCode: J4B32 | RH2XL ]
>>> [ Longitude: +13.7347078736682 N | Latitude: +51.019696269676 E ]
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>>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Michael Gould
>> Department of Information Systems
>> (Depto Lenguajes y Sistemas Informaticos) and TeIDE consortium
>> Universitat Jaume I
>> E-12071 Castellon (Spain)
>> e-mail: gould(AT)lsi.uji.es
>> http://www.mgould.com
>> NEW http://www.geoinfo.uji.es
>>
>>
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Michael Gould
Department of Information Systems
(Depto Lenguajes y Sistemas Informaticos) and TeIDE consortium
Universitat Jaume I, E-12071 Castellon (Spain)
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