FIG Working Week 2000, 21-26 May, Prague
Abstracts 

by Milan Konečný and Dr Josef Hojdar

Key words: 

1. Introduction

• Czech geospatial information community - Czech Association for Geoinformation (CAGI)
• Czech Office of Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre (COMSC)
• Nemoforum - link between public administration and private sector (professionals, firms, universities etc.)
• Working group on NGII
• National information infrastructure
• in tne Czech Republic represented by programme and document State Information Policy. Action Plan supporting Public Administration activities

2. Geoinformation Systems and IT GIS - limits of development and use

• Study in frames of Czech Grant Agency -

• Barriers and limits for development in GIS, perspectives

• high costs (not too rational design and implementation, qualified personal)
• slow transfer to digital forms of maps
• insufficient use of high IT for data acquisition
• limited access to national-wide databases
• GI business and commerce as important part of economy not yet
• lack of classification systems
• lack of quality evaluation
• lack of professionals
• unclear position of geodata in legal system
• conditions for use of geodata produced by public administration
• limited knowledge of foreign approaches and results

3. National Geoinformation Infrastructure of the Czech Republic - state of art and perspectives

• National information infrastructure

• Office for State Information System
• State Information Policy
• Czech Forum for State information Policy
• Basic theses of development of IS in public sector

• Czech Geoinformation Infrastructure (NGII)

• Cooperation of private and public sector
• Czech Association for Geoinformation
• Czech Office of Surveying, Mapping and and Cadastre
• Acknowledged by State Information Policy

4. Concept of NGII

• Part of National Information Infrastructure
• Developing in frames of the State Information Policy (NII)
• Technical conditions for geodata processing and geoinformation user oriented outputs

• No deep problems, solved in frames of NII

• Organizational, financial and other conditions influencing the access to geodata and geoinformation

• unified approach on governmental level (or not ?)
• ownership of data
• author´s copyrights
• responsibility for quality of data
• cooperation of public and private sector
• free access
• charging of data outputs - access by free
• data supply - public service or not ?
• more changes in legislation necessary

• Basic data sets

• spatial identification and spatial localization
• DB of spatial identifiers
• cadastral (1:1000), 1:10000 and 1:50000 maps, terrain model

• Knowledge of existing datasets of geodata

• metainformation systems
• national clearing house - MetaIS CAGI of geodatasets
• purpose-oriented metaIS at different subjects

• Standardization

• adoption of CEN and ISO standards
• user-oriented specific national standards - transfer formats
• metadata description
• indirect reference system

• Qualification of professionals

• higher theoretical background
• international contacts
• top scientific specialists
• university profiles - profiles of students
• continuing professional programs

• Knowledge level of users incl. potential

• broad information campaign
• typical ways of use
• support to economy, general education and better knowledge

5. International cooperation and contacts

• European programmes
• EUROGI, DG XIII and others
• global and European activities (GSDI, EGII, Global Mapping, Digital Earth - 2003 in Prague ?)
• Agenda of Small Countries
• coordination of all activities - more benefits to Czech authorities and subjects

6. Conclusions

• Need for National Geoinformation Infrastructure is obvious - NGII programme under development in frames of Nemoforum
• Background in State Information Policy (NII)
• Leading subjects - COMSC and CAGI
• Not yet recognition of importance of GI industry and g-commerce
• International cooperation could speed up the development in CR

Milan Konečný
Masaryk University
Brno
CZECH REPUBLIC

21 June 2000

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