1. NAME OF NATION: HUNGARY

2. Name of Respondent Supplying Information: Gábor Remetey-Fülöpp

Title (if any): Dr.

Mailing Address: C/O FVM-FTF HU-1860 BUDAPEST 55 P.O.Box 1

E-mail Address: gabor.remetey@f-m.x400gw.itb.hu

Telephone Number: +36 1 301 4052

Fax Number: +36 1 301 4691

3. Does your nation have an active or proposed initiative for developing a national spatial data infrastructure (or its equivalent)?

YES

 

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4. LEADERSHIP: 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: OFFICE FOR COORDINATION IN INFORMATICS, PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE

Mailing Address: HU-1055 BUDAPEST KOSSUTH TER 6

E-mail Address: zsolt.sikolya@gmc400.x400gw.itb.hu

Telephone Number: +36 1 268 3336

Fax Number: +36 1 268 3322

Name of Agency Head or Primary Contact Person: Mr. ZSOLT SIKOLYA

5. AVAILABILITY: What are the primary types, categories or forms of spatial digital data being made available through your nation's NSDI?

According to pricelist:

GEODETIC BASE DATA (100%)

LAND AND PROPERTY REGISTRATION DATA (100%)

LARGE SCALE CADASTRAL MAPS 1:1000 - 1:2000, (5%, STEADILY GROWING)

TOPOGRAPHIC DATA (100% IN SCALE 1:50 000 AND IN SMALLER SCALE)

MULTILEVEL ADMINISTRATIVE BOUNDARY DATABASE

CORINE LAND COVER DATABASE

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES

According to agreements:

AM/FM MAP (1:500) (PROPRIETARY DATA IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR)

AERIAL AND SATELLITE REMOTELY SENSED DATA AND IMAGERY ARCHIVE

GEO-REFERENCED GEOLOGIC, GEOPHYSICAL AND GEOTECHNICAL DATA

DETAILED VEGETATION MAPS

DETAILED SOIL MAPS

DETAILED FORESTRY MAPS

METEOROLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DATA

6. MECHANICS OF ACCESS: Through what technical and organizational mechanisms are spatial data being made available through the NSDI?

Technical mechanism: standard order procedures with browse room services with some experiments with geospatial metadata service needed for later electronic commerce.

Organizational mechanism: as far as the public data are concerned, well equipped data providers offer data and products based on yearly maintained pricelist.

The main suppliers are as follow:

Large scale mapping and land/property registration: LAND OFFICE NETWORK OF THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT (LAN/Internet access is under development. Core nodes are the 136 Land Offices countrywide and FÖMI, the Institute for Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing)

(Standards have been elaborated and used taking into account the CEN TC287 and ISO TC211 efforts.)

Aerial and satellite remotely sensed data, value added products and imagery archive: FÖMI REMOTE SENSING CENTRE

Browse room service and special agreements

Topographic maps, hi-resolution DTMs: MAPPING AGENCY OF THE HOME DEFENCE FORCES

7. LEGAL AND ECONOMIC FRAMEWORKS FOR ACCESS: What are the legal and economic constraints under which citizens, businesses or others may gain access to data available through the NSDI?

Selling of public geospatial data is made according to the Act on Surveying and Mapping Activities (in force since 1996). The land and property registration data are open for the wide public. Nominal fees allow easy access, however, due to the mass change in land/property privatization during the last years resulted an enormous huge backlog especially in the capital (where 20% of the country’s total population is living and where 80% of all financial transactions take place).

To face the challenge caused by the impact of the economic/societal/political transition, the introduction of the geospatial data clearinghouse concept is one of the scheduled action in framework of the planned joint National Aerial Survey Project to be implemented next year.

8. DATA COLLECTION COORDINATION: What parties are involved in collecting data for the NSDI and how is data collection coordinated?

Data collections are coordinated mainly by the public services, agencies, governmental bodies and local authorities.

The data content and quality is strictly defined in standards and by technical regulations. There is a mechanism of state acceptance. The participation of the private segment — in competition environment - in the data collection is dominating. The update in the public inventories (such as the land/property registration) is routine, in case of cadastral maps mostly in private-public partnership.

The base map renewal, new surveys are executed by the recommendations of the Multisectoral Committee on Map Availability set up by the Surveying and Mapping Act in 1996.

9. PRICING: If charges are assessed for spatial data made available through the NSDI, what is the basis or method for determining the price of various forms of spatial data?

Frequency of use, cost of maintenance, size of area or number of the requested items, market trends, promotion and public relations aspects, education, training and research discounts are applied. Sectors and disciplines has their own price and agreement policy. The framework on a harmonized price policy is subject of the mentioned multisectoral spatial data clearinghouse concept of the National Spatial Data Strategy (NSDS) a long term vision plan for the Hungarian GI community.

  1. COMMERCIAL INVOLVEMENT: Please describe how private commercial firms are involved in helping to build the NSDI.

Indirect involvement as subcontractor e.g. in the implementation of the National Cadastral Program in competition environment.

11. PUBLIC DOMAIN DATA SETS: Please describe those digital spatial data sets for jurisdictions within your nation that are available to anyone without any licensing or intellectual property restrictions imposed on the data sets and the data sets are available at no cost or little cost. How may copies be acquired of these public domain data sets?

There are very few data sets available without any licensing or intellectual property restriction and no or nominal costs. Majority of data are state owned or commercial proprietary products. In international comparison, the some as the base data prices can be seen as still nominal.

12. PUBLIC GOODS ASPECTS OF NSDI: Please describe any additional services or goods provided by government in support of the NSDI for which individual users are not charged.

National Cadastre Program — look in the land registration at the planned clients’ console of Land Offices having huge transaction traffic (under development)

One stop service (in experimental pilot project in and in)

One stop shops (or single window user services) have been introduced as a joint action of selected municipalities and the appropriate Land Offices in a larger countryside town Pécs and Zugló a capital district in Budapest.

National Topographic Program

The Aerial Survey of Hungary

Unified, geo-referenced address registry, a solution to provide interoperability between different address based public inventories and services

A multipurpose Parcel-based Information System primarily devoted to support agricultural, environmental and rural development related subsidies such as the integrated administrative and control system of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy.

  1. PRIVACY: Please describe how the information privacy of individual citizens is protected relative to data that may be accessed through the NSDI.

In line with the contents of the Constitution of the Republic of Hungary, Parliament has created a law on the basic rules serving the protection of personal data and the enforcement of right of access to data of public interest. The Act LXIII of 1992 on the Protection of Personal Data and the Publicity of Data of Public Interest regulates among others the following topics:

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14. AUTHORITY: Do the laws or formal orders of any legislative or executive branches of government explicitly recognize the need to establish or further develop the NSDI? <Please answer YES or NO.>

YES

If YES, please provide citations to those laws or orders. If YES, to whom has authority been granted and for what tasks?

Governmental Committee for Informatics and Telecommunications

Decision made on 15/10/1997

15. FUNDING: Have funds been specifically budgeted and acquired for NSDI activities? <Please answer YES or NO.>

YES

If YES, please describe the purpose of the funds and the amounts.

Background studies of the National Spatial Data Strategy Document (granted by the Office of Prime Minister to compile the studies are just completed, available on CD, waiting on release approval).

The strategic document contains a balanced system of objectives and corresponding actions that are fully in line with the implementation of the Information Society action plan. It contains 12 strategies and 50 specific tasks to be implemented in the years leading to the planned date of the EU accession.

Some of the NSDI action plan activities are already under definition or implementation phase e.g.

  1. INCLUSIVENESS: Please describe the types and extent of participants involved in building the NSDI and their roles.

Coordination Office on Informatics, OPM

Overall coordination with direct responsibility for the following actions:

Concept of the National Strategy on GI. Subcontractors: HUNGIS Foundation, KPGM Hungary. The Task Force Group is composed of heads from the main data providers MoARD, MAHDEF, and invited experts from OMFB, HUNGIS, Budapest Technical University, KPMG Hungary and HUNAGI)

Harmonization and geo-referencing of addresses WG includes: MCTWM, MoARD, MoI, NCTD, HSO, FÖMI etc.,

Data dissemination: metadata service and clearinghouse concept This WG is dealing with promotion of the coordinated development, use sharing and dissemination of GI data taking into account relevant ISO TC/211, CEN TC/287 and FGDC standards and OGISC recommendations.

National Committee for Technological Development (NCTD)

Direct responsibility for the following action: Aerial Survey Program of Hungary. WG includes: MCTWM, MoARD, MoE, MoI, MÁFI, HSO, FÖMI etc.,

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MoARD)

Its Department of Lands and Mapping (as National Mapping Agency for the large scale mapping and National Land Administration) participates in all actions having direct responsibility for the following ones:

National Cadastral Program WG includes: MCTWM, MoE, MoI, NCTD, MÁFI, HSO, FÖMI, etc,

Establishment of a Parcel-based Multipurpose Information System WG includes: MCTWM, MoE, MoI, NCTD, MÁFI, HSO, FÖMI, HAS/RISSAC etc.

Ministry of Communication, Transport and Water Management (MCTWM)

Participant in several actions

Mapping Agency of the Home Defense Forces (MAHDEF)

Direct responsibility for the following action:

Hungarian Topographic Program (in co-operation with MoARD)

Hungarian Statistical Office (HSO) Participant in several actions particularly the Establishment of the Administrative Boundaries Database and Establishment of a Parcel-based Multipurpose Information System

Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing (FÖMI)

Participates in all actions having direct responsibility for the following one:

Establishment of the Administrative Boundaries Database

Ministry of Interior (MoI) Participant in several actions particularly the one related to Establishment of the Administrative Boundaries Database

Ministry of Environment (MoE) Participates several actions particularly the action related to the Establishment of a Parcel-based Multipurpose Information System

Hungarian Geological Institute (MÁFI) Participates several actions, particularly the action related to the metadata service and national clearinghouse segment

HUNGIS Foundation Forum of the Hungarian GI market actors, Public-private partnership. Prime contractor for the National Spatial Data Strategy action and many domestic awareness activities.

Hungarian Association for Geo-Information (HUNAGI) Contributions related to international (particularly the Euro-Atlantic) co-operation and links

17. COMPONENTS: Please indicate whether the vision of an NSDI for your nation incorporates the following components or concepts.

A. METADATA <Please answer YES or NO.> YES

B. CLEARINGHOUSE <Please answer YES or NO.> YES

C. DATA STANDARDS <Please answer YES or NO.> YES

D. CORE DATA <Please answer YES or NO.> YES

18. RESEARCH: Have funds been specifically budgeted and spent on research projects to advance NSDI concepts? <Please answer YES or NO.> YES

If YES, please describe the types of projects that have been funded.

In frame of the National Spatial Data Strategy, the following background study issues have been investigated based Office of the Prime Minister grant by KPMG Hungary as subcontractor:

19. LINKAGE TO GENERAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY STANDARDS - Which international or national information and communication technology standards has the NSDI adopted?

The Hungarian Standard on Digital Base Map ("DAT" regulation)

The standard elaborated by FÖMI was issued by the Hungarian Standardization Board as MSZ 7772-1:1997, while the related regulations were issued by MoARD. The DAT standard is harmonized with CEN TC 287 prestandards and was widely discussed and agreed with and by the Hungarian GI and surveyors’ community. The DAT has opened the way to fully commercialize the digital base maps for the GI market. Its content and structure is highly suitable for producing, using, computing, utilizing spatial data and facilitates the data transfer, access, value adding, metadata servicing, as well as pricing quality assuring and marketing.

  1. GLOBAL SPATIAL DATASETS: Does your NSDI provide access to spatial datasets with global coverage? <Please answer YES or NO.> If YES, which datasets and how may access to these datasets be achieved?

Regional (European) datasets are available via Regional Data Centers such as MEGRIN (Geographic Data Description Directory-GDDD, SABE-Seamless Administrative Boundary Database for Europe), European Environment Agency (CORINE Land Cover 1:100 000), UNEP GRID data via the Budapest GRID Center of MoE. Moreover, other sources for global/regional data includes: Research, Spatial Data and GIS Organizational Profiles via GISIG, information on GI related Education, Research, Data via EUROGI. Hungary has operational Remote Sensing Center at FÖMI since 1981. All the important global data sources (e.g. Landsat, Spot, IRS, AVHRR, ERS SPIN-2 and RADARSAT) are ensured to access for the Hungarian GI community based on international agreements ensuring the operational use of data in value added product and service provision especially in agriculture and environmental applications. Exchange of global/regional meteorological data is based on International agreements. The Meteorological Service has Meteosat availability since 6 years, and NOAA AVHRR imagery access since 2 years. Mention should be made, Hungary leads the international activities in the Resources and Environmental Monitoring of the ISPRS between 1996-2000. The mid-Congress Symposium was held in Budapest recently having over 150 presentations from 32 countries of 5 continents in the themes Global Monitoring, GI and RS for Sustainable Development local, regional and global etc.

21. GLOBAL OR REGIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE INITIATIVES: Is your NSDI formally affiliated with or connected to any global or regional spatial data infrastructure initiatives? <Please answer YES or NO.>YES

If YES, which initiative(s)?

In the Hungarian SD Strategy special emphasis was given to the issue of effectiveness based on investigation of larger spatial data application projects to clarify the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) measures and actions needed to meet the requirements of the European Union and NATO accessions based. A detailed review of national, regional and global spatial data strategies and infrastructures was made investigating the major findings and resolutions of US, UK, the Netherlands as well as the European Commission (GI2000 and EGII)and the GSDI Chapel Hill documents respectively.

22. LONG TERM VISION OR STRATEGIC PLAN: Has a long term vision statement or strategic plan been developed for your country's NSDI? <Please answer YES or NO.> YES

If YES, how may a copy be obtained?

The long term vision plan National Spatial Data Strategy (NSDS) is already on CD waiting for release for wider distribution. English version is not available yet. Summary on the contents (as of August 18, 1998)are already under publication e.g. in the Newsletter on Office Intergovernmental Solutions of the US General Services Administration, Office of Government-wide Policy, Washington DC.

  1. GRAND CHALLEGES: Name one of the most pressing challenges for NSDI development in your nation.

To accelerate the production of standardized core data and products (National Cadastral Program, National Topographic Program)

To face the application challenge: Parcel-based Information System (to be implemented till year 2002 as required by the agricultural and agro-environmental purposes related to the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union.)

To find the mutually beneficial solution for the National Spatial Data Clearinghouse

24. FURTHER INFORMATION:

If an NSDI WEB SITE exists where information about NSDI efforts in your nation may be found in the future, please provide the web site address.

If brochures are other written materials exist describing NSDI efforts in your nation, please provide an address for requesting copies of these materials.

References

If a user requirements analysis or cost-benefits analysis was undertaken to estimate the benefits of building a spatial data infrastructure for your country, please provide an address for requesting a copy.

Mr. Zsolt SIKOLYA

Head, Department of Primary Governmental Information Systems

OFFICE FOR COORDINATION IN INFORMATICS, PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE

HU-1055 BUDAPEST KOSSUTH TER 6

E-mail Address: zsolt.sikolya@gmc400.x400gw.itb.hu

Telephone Number: +36 1 268 3336

Fax Number: +36 1 268 3322