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1 Publishable summary year 2 Part of the progress report Author: Antti Jakobsson Date: April 2015 Version: 1.0

2 Change Summary Version Date Author/Editor Change Summary 1.0 April 2015 Antti Jakobsson First draft for the progress report References Ref. Title/Version/Publication Date/Author [1] Insert here

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4 1 Publishable summary The European Location Framework (ELF) project will foster the wider use of public sector geoinformation and enable the creation of innovative value-added services. The purpose of this project is to deliver the ELF required to provide up-to-date, authoritative, interoperable, crossborder, reference geo-information for use by both the public and private sectors. The versatile cloud and cascade supporting architecture provides a platform of INSPIRE compliant geoinformation, harmonised at a cross-border and pan-european level. The project s proactive stimulation of content markets involves the creation of example applications, using thematic communities to make user led developments by SMEs (inside and outside the consortium). The consortium is committed to continue to provide the ELF Platform beyond the end of the project, thus enabling growth in the use and re-use of trustworthy, accurate and re-usable authoritative reference geo-information. The aim is to create a sustainable ELF platform for re-use of authoritative public sector reference geo-information at multiple levels of detail during the pilot phase and beyond. Key objectives of the project are to: Add value to INSPIRE data by contributing to cross border harmonisation; Provide a high performance ELF platform and cloud services that support multiple national feeds and a wide spectrum of value-added services; Develop operational services which support the policy and legislative programme being developed in parallel in the ISA funded EULF initiative lead by JRC; Demonstrate the usability of the ELF platform and cloud services for key European policy areas and other users including SMEs; Support integration of 3rd party thematic datasets and National Spatial Data Infrastructures (particularly extending beyond the INSPIRE themes provided by NMCAs) for service implementations based on specific user needs; and Provide a user friendly interface to find, view and compare the geo-information (Geo Product Finder) The project website is available containing twitter feeds, latest news, application information and how to contact the project. Also the project pre-operational services are available at (Figure 1). The project sites are multilingual offering key facts now in 7 languages. The goal is to support all European languages.

Figure 1 ELF pre-operational services at www.locationframework.

5 Figure 1 ELF pre-operational services at Key objectives and deliverables of the project, work performed and main results are summarized in below.

6 Table 1: Objectives, Key deliverables, work performed and main results Objective Key Deliverables Work performed Main results Year 2 Create a sustainable European Location Framework (ELF) for the re-use of authoritative public sector reference geo-information at multiple levels of detail during the pilot phase and beyond. Add value to INSPIRE data by accomplishing cross border harmonisation. Provide a high performance E.L.F. platform that supports multiple national feeds and a wide spectrum of user applications; Align with the policy and legislative programme being developed in parallel in the ISA funded EULF initiative led by JRC; Demonstrate the usability of E.L.F. platform for key European policy areas and other users including SMEs; Support integration of 3rd party thematic datasets and National Spatial Data Infrastructures (particularly extending beyond the INSPIRE themes provided by NMCAs) for service implementations based on specific user needs; A pan-european framework agreement for the supply and access of geographic reference data for sustainable long-term use and re-use (WP9) Geospatial data from Authoritative sources (WP3) European Location Framework Policy (WP9). E.L.F. Reference Data Specifications (WP2) Harmonisation Tools (WP4). A performant, flexible, standardsbased platform architecture (WP5) A 3 tier operational service infrastructure (WP5). Joint Meetings and workshops with EU (WP8) Location Framework Working Group (WP9) Example end user applications supporting European Policy and SMEs (WP7). Testimonials from platform/example application end users (WP7) Open access of the E.L.F. Platform to the competition proposed in ICT PSP 2012 Objective 2.2 d Competitions (WP7) Example applications that use 3rd party data (WP7) An inventory of available data from 3rd Parties (WP6) An integration plan, covering technical and legal aspects etc., and including national SDIs (WP6) WP 9 has been working on defining the components needed for the framework agreement, business model using the experiences from the market, NSDIs and EuroGeographics. In addition to the Global and Regional Services, we have now provided first national services (32). Cascading services have been developed and national services available have been included. The ELF platform is pre-operational and available and secure. New services have been added to the GeoLocator. 10 new NMCAs have indicated that they want to join the Consortium and provide content. In addition 4 authorities have expressed interest to act as a data provider. ELF data models are now scale-independent and fully INSPIRE compliant. All specifications have been published. The current approach supports INSPIRE implementation in the countries In addition to transformation tool we have now data quality validation tools, visualization tool (SLD editor), First version of the Geo Product Finder, Edge Matching tools and generalization tools. All other tools are progressing as planned. Pre-operational service at is now available ELF ArcGIS Online has been established at elf.maps.arcgis.com Established a regular contact with EULF, Are3na and JRC/INSPIRE with monthly telecons and working on a collaboration plan Established the ELF advisory board with Eurostat, JRC, EEA participating Progressed on the use cases and applications (Emergency mapping, Insurance and reinsurance, real estate business and health statistics) Plan on how to attract more application developers containing two elements 1) national events 2) European wide ELF challenge Connecting ELF to Danube River infrastructure project Connecting ELF to EULF Transportation pilot Investigation what 3 rd party data application developers need (WP6/WP7) An inventory of available services has been made (WP6) A first guideline for application developers Pilot project in arranging ELF Ortophotos (tested with 7 countries) Investigation of new pan-european digital elevation model in Germany, Poland and Czech Republic EULIS integration investigation D9.4 Description of legal and administrative platform solutions D3.3 E.L.F National Services D3.6 E.L.F Cascaded services final D3.7 Open Source Cloud Service Platform Initial D3.11 Status report on the E.L.F services D2.3 Data Maintenance and Processing specification D2.4 Product/Service specification for the E.L.F basemap D2.6 Product/Service specification for the E.L.F TopoRaster 50k D2.8 Product/Service specification for E.L.F Cadastre (Regional) D4.3 Generalisation tools D4.4 Edge matching tools D5.4 Status report on the E.L.F Technical Architecture The technical infrastructure is available elfproject.eu/documentation Organised an stand at the INSPIRE conference in Aalborg 2014 D7.1 Pilot application for Emergency Mapping D7.2 Pilot application for Insurance and Reinsurance D7.3 Pilot application for Health Statistics D7.4 Pilot application for Real-estate business D7.5 Report on performed activities and resulting engagement and recommendation for the continuation D7.8 Status report on pilot applications D7.6 Report on performed activities and the resulting engagement and recommendations from workshops

7 Provide a user friendly interface for finding, viewing and comparing data provided by the ELF platform. A Geo Product Finder service (WP4) All necessary legal arrangements made (WP9) A demonstration service (WP3) Showcase application is now available at First version of the GeoProductFinder is available D4.5 Visualisation SLD D4.7 Web based Geo Product Finder

8 The key indicators reflect how well the project meets its goals (Table 2). Table 2 Key Indicators progress Indicator No. Relating to which project objective / expected result 1 Objective 1: Volume availability Indicator Countries available 2 INSPIRE Themes available 3 Access to project 4 Objective 5: Use web site Applications 5 Downloads by external audience 6 Objective 7: Accessibility Signatories to the framework agreement 7 Accesses to the GPF 8 Data viewing services provided free from the E.L.F. Platform 9 Datasets provided free at point of use for the end user Method of measurement Measure those that have provided data Via an on-going inventory of services number of hits per month Capture how many applications exploit the E.L.F. Platform Number of downloads made from E.L.F. Platform Number of signatures Expected progress Year 2 Result at Year 2 Comment Countries providing European datasets (EuroGlobalMap, EuroRegionalMap, EuroBoundaryMap) 9 9 European datasets containing AU, HY,GN,TN,PR,EL,LC,BU), Master Level containing two themes (AU,AD,GN,TN,HY,CP,BU,LC) hits for the elfproject.eu. not yet monitored. 5 1 (7) Showcase application available. All other applications developed in the project are waiting for data to be connected (5). In addition working to provide Transportation Pilot n/a Some arrangements for accessing data by external projects (Danube river) has been made but downloads not yet monitored EuroGeographics current framework agreement is signed between NMCAs depending of the product. Consortium Agreement is signed by 14 NMCAs Hits monitor 100k 0 Not monitoring the service yet. Monitor conditions of use for each service Monitor the service providers and the conditions of use of the data Viewing of the ELF Basemap (1), Regional cascading (6), Master level (32) Global Map, Norway (3), Finland (4), Spain (5) provided free

9 The ELF project will address barriers of trust-worthiness and accessibility to Public Sector Information (PSI) by creating a platform of authoritative and maintainable geographical data conflated from Europe s national mapping and cadastral authorities (NMCAs) and adopting a cloud based cached/cascading performant service architecture, we will: Address Obstacles Hindering More Extensive Use of ICT. Based on prototypes created during the ESDIN project the ELF project will operationalise existing quality, accessibility, security, generalisation, edge-matching and change detection tools. This will make national INSPIRE compliant services available for European use. Encourage Smart sustainable and inclusive growth. The NMCA partners involved are committed to making their geo-information, and the services based upon them, available throughout the project and beyond. This project will use Key Performance Indicators to monitor increasingly accessible (and free) data, service provision and tools. In doing so it will propose the conditions that optimise access to all of these. Foster EU Wide Markets For Innovation. By giving access to national public sector geo-information sources, the ELF platform will open new markets for commercial entities, especially SMEs, to develop applications of use to users. Address Unique Solutions to Societal Problems. The ELF platform, by giving access to a wide range of authoritative geo-information, will deliver a unique capability that allows improvements and development of solutions to many common interoperability problems in Europe. We will test this capability in the domains of Finance (Insurance), management of the Environment and Security (Copernicus, INSPIRE, SEIS) and Human Health and Safety. Support the Innovation Union. Implementations based upon the ELF platform during the project will demonstrate how easily innovators can work on cross-border applications. Maximise the Social and Economic Potential of Internet Based Services. This will be achieved by allowing any on-line service to have access to the highest quality, and most consistently managed, European reference geo-information available. Address Market Fragmentation due to Interoperability Issues between Countries. Currently the Public Sector Geographic Information market is nationally and regionally focused and therefore fragmented from a European perspective. Through the ELF platform we will create the foundation for a new holistic market based service for exploiting sustainable, interoperable data and services. For example, currently a user needs to negotiate separate agreements with each data provider of NMCA and other INSPIRE data. Using the ELF platform, these data will be provided through one capability. The ELF platform will achieve this by providing Access Management Federation across all NMCA providers, which will enable single sign-on access for users of combined multi-national data. In doing so ELF moves beyond the ESDIN project to provide an operational European SDI for authoritative reference geo-information and in doing so it will focus more on the political context and on organisational and legal interoperability. The Showcase application is available at (Figure 2).

10 Figure 2 ELF Showcase application showing UrbanAtlas with ELF Basemap (view1) and ELF master level details in Helsinki centre with Spanish user interface

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