YEAR 2000 UPDATE TO THE NATIONAL SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE SURVEY

1. NAME OF NATION: Germany

2. Name of Respondent Supplying Information:

Full Name: Martin Knabenschuh

Title (if any): Dipl.-Ing.

Mailing Address: Landesvermessungsamt Nordrhein-Westfalen, Muffendorfer Straße 19-21, D-53177 Bonn

E-mail Address: knabenschuh@lverma.nrw.de

Telephone Number: ++49 228 846-3200

Fax Number: ++49 228 846-3002

INSTRUCTIONS: Provide responses to questions 3 and 4 only if the

information has changed since your 1998 submission.

3. (Question 3 from 1998 questionnaire)

Which agency or organization is coordinating or leading national

spatial data infrastructure (NSDI) development efforts in your

nation? (If no single agency is coordinating, please provide a

primary point of contact from whom we may learn more.)

Agency/Organization Name:

1. German Umbrella Organization for Geoinformation (DDGI)

2. German Political Working Group for Geoinformation (IMAGI)

3. Working Committee of the Surveying and Mapping Agencies of the German States (AdV)

Mailing Address:

1. GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Telegrafenberg A 51, D-14473 Potsdam

2. Bundesministerium des Innern, Alt-Moabit 101 D, D-10559 Berlin

3. Ministerium des Innern Brandenburg, Postfach 60 11 65, D-14411 Potdam

E-mail Address:

1. wae@gfz-potsdam.de (website: http://www.ddgi.de)

2. poststelle@bmi.bund.de (website: http://www.imagi.de)

3. heinrich.tilly@mi.brandenburg.de (website: http://www.adv-online.de)

Telephone Number:

1. ++49 331 288-1680

2. ++49 1888 681-0

3. ++40 331 866-2320

Fax Number:

1. ++49 331 288-1703

2. ++49 1888 681-2926

3. ++49 331 866-2303

Name of Agency Head or Primary Contact Person:

1. Dr. Joachim Wächter (President of DDGI)

2. StS Brigitte Zypries (Parliamentary Secretary of the Federal Ministry of the Inerior)

3. Dipl.-Ing. Heinrich Tilly (Chairman of AdV)

4. (Question 24 from 1998 questionnaire)

If an NSDI WEB SITE exists where information about NSDI efforts in

your nation may be found, please provide the web site address.

• see above (DDGI. IMAGI, AdV)

• in addition:

http://www.gzgi.de

http://www.ifag.de

http://www.ingeoforum.de

http://www.terramapserver.de

others

If brochures or other written materials exist describing NSDI efforts

in your nation, please provide an address for requesting copies of

these materials.

• via DDGI, IMAGI, AdV

5. Since the submission of the 1998 questionnaire response, what

progress has been made relative to technical achievements or

advancements in support of spatial data infrastructure development

activities in your nation?

• realization of a central geobasisdata service center at BKG (Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy)

• realization of central geodata service center (ingeoforum, terramapserver)

• development of state geodata service centers in several states (e.g. gdi NRW)

• realization of state geobasisdata websites and mis´s at the nma´s

• development of a concept for a central federal mis für official geodata (by IMAGI)

• development of a concept for a central federal geodata mis (by DDGI)

• development of a quality model for geodata certification (by DDGI) and realization of geodata certification (by GZGI by order of DDGI)

6. Since the 1998 response, what progress has been made relative to

policy, legal or organizational advancements in support of spatial

data infrastructure development activities in your nation?

see above (nr. 5); especially

• a central geobasisdata service (including a common price policy, joining together of the geobasisdata of all states to get homogeneous data etc.)

• a concept for a central federal mis for official geodata, realized on political level, means IMAGI (including pricing, right of use etc.)

• a new federal law relative to data copyright

• a concept relative to freedom of information for official geodata (by parliament)

7. What would you say is the most pressing current challenge for

spatial data infrastructure developments in your nation?

• to get a central (means exactly one) national mis for geodata of all geo-related disciplines respectively a central umbrella for all geodata mis in Germany (a national meta-mis joining together all already existing geodata mis of all geo-related disciplines)

• to get a better solution for geodata (also official geobasisdata) publicity, value adding and delivery in Germany(based on co-operation between data owner and companies being experts in marketing, data delivery and value adding)

• to get a uniform geodata description within an nationwide geodata mis (exactly one description model), an uniform valuation based on that description and as result an official uniform geodata certification to get a better transparency on the German geodata market

• to get homogeneous geobasisdata from the states and a homogeneous pricing and reasonable prices (= freedom of information) for these official data

• to get more economic procedures for updating activities because of co-operation between (public and private) geodata owner

• to get more support from the political level (relative to freedom of information etc.)