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Shared Environmental Information System: Clean Air for Europe (SEIS-CAFÉ Pilot)
Café Directive 2008/50/EC requires that European agencies cooperate to exchange air quality data and report on specific values for human health and vegetation using INSPIRE compliant techniques. SEIS-CAFÉ Pilot was conducted to operationally test the feasibility for the exchange, reporting and access to air quality data and information for Europe using INSPIRE services for, discovery, transformation, view and download. The project was done for European Commission Joint Research Centre and stayed within the scope of the environmental requirements of both CAFÉ and INSPIRE Directives. Notable INSPIRE-compliant components include download services established for air quality data reporting, application schemas defined for data publication, database schemas for collecting and publishing of air quality data from core providers, FTP service for uploading, view services, metadata catalogue and a user-friendly geoportal.
Website:
http://www.nesis.eu/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=169
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City of Chengdu, China
Chengdu is a big city in China, and the Intergraph SDI system serves a population of around 10 million. The solution provides one map covering the whole city; the same map is used for all administration departments. Maintaining one map for the whole city - instead of each city department maintaining one map as before - has dramatically cut down management and maintenance costs by helping to avoid redundancies and errors. Overall, this project has led to increased working and administration efficiency, and has streamlined workflows across all related management departments.
Website:
http://www.chengdu.gov.cn/echengdu/
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Nigeria Census Project
Beta Systems Software AG and Intergraph (Germany) GmbH were commissioned with processing and structuring data gathered at Nigeria’s last census in 2006. As part of the “DBMS/Geoportal for Census Nigeria” project, more than 50 million two-sided DIN A4 census sheets were processed, transferred into a central database, and finally enriched with extensive geo data. The central interface for research, visualization and analysis is a geoportal that makes the georeferenced census data available in an intuitive manner according to the user’s access privileges. The raster data store represents one of Africa’s largest data repositories; the imagery is stored at different resolutions and make up the bulk of the data totaling 120 terabytes. Now decision-makers are able to draw on highly useful planning tools that take into account demographic and economic factors.
Website:
http://www.population.gov.ng/
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NatureSDI+
NATURE-SDI+ aims at establishing a Best Practice Network dealing with a cluster of the data themes listed in Annexes I and III of the INSPIRE Directive, and focused on nature conservation issues. The establishment of Natura 2000 and the new trans-boundary EU approach for protected sites management has enforced the link between nature conservation and geo-information. This has generated the need for interoperable, accessible and harmonized datasets for the EU. The main objectives of the Nature-SDI+ Network are to involve new stakeholders, share data and best practices, improve and stimulate exploitation and promote the re-use of information on nature conservation.
Website:
http://naturesdi.intergraph.it/naturesdi
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IGN, Spain
IGN Spain is uses Intergraph’s SDI solution to power SIGNA, the main viewer of IGN geographical data and also the entrance gate to the SDI node containing all the OGC services available. With SIGNA, non-GIS experts can connect to services and download data without any knowledge about SDIs.
Website:
http://www.ign.es/signa
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GIS4EU, European Union
Stood up EU-wide, the GIS4EU project supports data for the entire continent of Europe.The project's main objective is to increase communication and networking relationships among the project partners to ensure it addresses cross scale, cross language and cross border interoperability and accessibility issues. The project and portal provides base cartography datasets for Europe for administrative units, hydrography, transportation networks, and elevation.
Website:
http://gis4eu.intergraph.pl/gis4eu
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City of Bilbao, Spain
The Bilbao City Council has launched GeoBilbao: a portal serving map-based information and services using Intergraph’s spatial data infrastructure (SDI) solution. Internally, it vastly improves data coordination and reuse. Externally, it provides a public access geo-data portal for the municipality. Citizens can now access a diverse set of geo-referenced information including real-time data such as traffic density, parking occupancy rate, video camera feeds, and much more.
Website:
http://www.geobilbao.net/
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City of Legnica, Poland
The City of Legnica is a town in south-western Poland. Their portal serves map-based information such as municipal boundaries, precincts, building footprints, addresses and other data. Their SDI participates as a node in the country-wide Poland GeoPortal, also implemented as an Intergraph SDI solution.
Website:
http://sip.legnica.eu/sip
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Brasov City Hall, Romania
With most of the city’s municipal workflows still managed with paper maps, a shift to IT automation would significantly improve management and maintenance of geospatial data at the City of Brasov. They needed a complete solution to integrate data from 36 departments, as well as 10 subordinated public services. The city worked with Intergraph to develop a geospatial data exchange supported by a centralized database to manage all the data. Decision-makers know they have up-to-date and accurate information, and the support needed to make better decisions for the city. In addition, the system delivers multiple services to citizens through a web portal.
Website:
http://www.brasovcity.ro/
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Canada Forces Base, Suffield
Using Intergraph’s GeoMedia, GeoMedia Professional, and GeoMedia WebMap software, CFB Suffield effectively associated and integrated vast amounts of isolated information kept in numerous disparate databases. Today, a user can select a building on an intelligent, interactive map and see physical infrastructure data about that building in the asset information database. They can also see work order information, gas consumption data, and electrical plans from separate databases as well as an image of the building exterior. With all this information readily available, the user is better equipped to make area-specific decisions
Website:
http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/index.asp
