Geoinformation dissemination for the general public through multiple clients
Asperen, Paul van & Wim Blanken
The directorate-general for Public Works and Water Management (RWS) is responsible for maintaining and administering the main roads and waterways in The Netherlands. RWS is an organization with a headcount of about 8,000 employees, an annual budget of 4 billion and more than 200 offices throughout the country. A new Dutch government policy has urged RWS to deliver more value for money on the same budget and to simultaneously reduce its employees. To achieve these goals, the organization is moving from a decentralized approach to a centralized steering model using uniform working models and organization-wide standards. The department of Geo-information and ICT (AGI) is working within RWS to meet the challenge of reducing ICT (information and communications technology) costs considerably. The strategy to meet this challenge is built on the principles of: uniform working models, open standards, server-based computing and central data hosting and maintenance. A geoinformation infrastructure based on the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Services Architecture has been established. This infrastructure has already enabled broad geoinformation sharing throughout the organization and has proven to be cost effective.
Event: XXIII International FIG Congress : Shaping the change
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