GDI Emergency response and Crisis management
At the beginning of December 2006, a project concluded in the Kingdom that produced the first operational geodata infrastructure of the Netherlands. The new national steering committee on geoinformation, called the GI Board, agreed that the ministries of Foreign Affairs; of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment; of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality; of Public Works and Water Management; the Dutch Cadastre and the ICTU should build this basic geodata infrastructure.
Acces to geographical data
This is a device for the crisis centres of the Kingdom to be granted access to the geographical data managed by different departments. When a crisis occurs, the departmental crisis centres can concurrently access the same data. For facilitating this data exchange, a geoinfrastructure was set up that can be used by all departments.
GDI-RC Project
In the GDI-RC project, Geodan is responsible for project management of the GDI Infrastructure & Standards team. This team has mainly focused on aligning standards. Besides, an open source viewer was developed with among others Mapbuilder to display map layers. Existing map layers are used in this sense, i.e. the map layers used by all departments in their management activities, e.g. the parcel data used by the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality for assessing agricultural subsidies, the road maps used by the Ministry of Public Works and Water Management, or the property maps of the Dutch Cadastre.
Infrastructure
For realizing this infrastructure, agreements had to be reached and procedures developed with the corresponding ministries. Another challenge was the application of Internet technology in the standards regarding authorisation, access, consultation and integration of the Internet technology. The project concluded successfully in December 2006 and the final results were presented to the GI Board. In 2007, the developed infrastructure will be expanded with more map layers and different services.
It has been possible within this project to develop an infrastructure in a relatively short period of time and thus contribute to improvements in the provision of information for contingency response purposes. Geodan has contributed to this from an organisational and technical perspective.
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