National Geodata Strategy for Sweden 2016-2020 Developed Co-Operation for Open and Usable Geodata Via Services
Peter Nyhlen
In consultation with the Swedish Geodata Council, Lantm?teriet last year drew up a new Swedish geodata strategy for the years 2016-2020. The new strategy is based on five future challenges for the Swedish society where geodata is expected to contribute to solutions: Innovation and business growth, the digitization of public administration, the streamlining of the urban planning process, the climate adaptation and environmental threats and the Swedish defense and civil contingencies. Common to all mentioned societal challenges is that the solutions will benefit from open geodata. In Sweden the user financing of public sector geodata is still substantial. This negatively effects data-driven innovation and business growth. It also negatively effects the digitization of public sector administration and the society?s ability to act efficiently in businesses where it is important to share an updated and reliable model of the real world. All challenges will also benefit from having a further developed national harmonization of geodata between national, regional and local level public sector entities. Sweden still deals with a situation where different geodata standards are used in the 290 municipalities. Further to this, both the social planning process and the civil contingencies ? including emergency response activities ? will benefit from having more unified basic geodata supporting the coordination of the activities involved. All challenges would finally benefit from reliable and well known API services with clearly stated service level commitments. Lantm?teriet expects that developments will take a leap step forward when such APIs with high quality authoritative geodata becomes generally available for use in public and private sector applications. To make this happen and fully support the Swedish society in solving its societal challenges, the public sector geodata entities in Sweden needs to further develop its ability to cooperate.
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