Spatial information management in the context of SDI and e-government : the German approach
Riecken, Jens
Realizing spatial information as a basic economic good, in Germany several initiatives from local to national started early to set up spatial data infrastructures based upon the relevant international norms and industrial standards. In 2003, the federal and of regional governments (LLnder), backed by national associations of local authorities, adopted a joint strategy called Deutschland-Online to intensify the cooperation in E-Government. One area of cooperation is the unit of geoinformation, spatial data and spatial data infrastructure (SDI)). To push the development in different individual public agencies and administration levels, the Surveying and Mapping Agency of North- Rhine Westphalia has accepted the lead this unit. Already in 1999, the German State North-Rhine Westphalia has established itts spatial data infrastructure ((GDI.NRWW) as a joint initiative of State Agencies, municipalities, private companies and scientific institutes. About 140 participating institutions were involved in standardization, specification, implementation, testing, and marketing activities in a bottomup approach. The benefits of a SDI was demonstrated by several test-beds and joint projects of a lot of partners which created an operational SDI kernel with more than 120 different services. Recently, these activities have led to local SDI clusters with own organizational structures. The next step will be to make use of these cluster experiences helping other local initiatives in developing their solutions.
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