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EURADIN: Best Practices and Data
Flow from Europe
By Kirsten Elbo
Denmark
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Examples of
The EURADIN Project
Best
Practices
Data Flow
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WP2: Main Objectives
ÖAnalysing the current situation regarding
addresses in Europe
ÖCollecting and analysing the existing best
practices related to addresses definition,
registration, and maintenance.
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Results of WP 2
ÖDiagnostic of the situation regarding
addresses.
ÖCollecting and analysed a first group of
existing best practices – 15 best practices
collected.
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Best Practices
ÖThe 15 best practices fall in these groups:
ÖData/dataflow
ÖOrganization/roles
ÖUtilization/business models
ÖOther
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Best practices from Denmark
ÖEnhancing address infrastructure by legislation,
common guidelines and citizens’ participation
ÖOptimized utilization of addresses by making
data and services accessible at marginal cost
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Address infrastructure
ÖAddresses are infrastructure
”Dagbladet BT” 11. May 2004
Bratislava, August 1968
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Address infrastructure
ÖThe goal of this best practice case is:
Ö to demonstrate how a framework of public legislation,
common guidelines for the local address authorities and
citizen’s participation
Ö will support and improve the address system
infrastructure and result in comprehensive address data
of a high quality
Ö for the benefit of the government, business and citizens.
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Address infrastructure
ÖAssumptions (thesis):
Ö The quality of an address system is based on well
defined roles and responsibilities by the parties that
manage the components of the address system.
Ö If roles are unsure, so are addresses!
Ö A framework of common rules and guidelines will
harmonize and set the minimum standards for
addresses
Ö Result = more harmonized address system +
interoperable address data
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Transparency
Will improve
citizens’ and
business willingness
to give feed back
and to share
responsibility and
ownership of the
address
infrastructure
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Address infrastructure
ÖThe Danish Legal Framework
§
2001: All legal regulations on
addresses transferred to the Act
§
on Building and Dwelling
§
Building
Register
Legislation
Registration.
Building
Register Act
Sections 3a-3g
§
§
Population
Register
Legislation
Public and
Common
Private Road
Legislation
Until 2001
2003: Detailed regulation of the
rules for addressing
Statutory order
on road names
and Addresses
From 2001 - …
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Address infrastructure
ÖThe Act: What it does
Ö It defines the roles and enforces authority
Öthe municipal council as address authority
Öthe Ministry of E&B as national authority for addresses
Ö It decides the concept of addressable objects
Ö It decides the common address components
Ö It states the role of geographical unambiguousness
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Address infrastructure
ÖThe Statutory Order: What it does
Ö It defines the detailed requirements and options in the
management of addresses (must vs. may)
Ö It enforces the common rules and defines the
components and concepts of addressing
Ö It defines the basic data formats and relationships with
other reference data
Ö It sets the common rules for the registration of address
data (what, where and when)
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Address infrastructure
ÖCommon Guidelines for Municipalities
Guidelines for the understanding
of the concepts of addressing,
interpretation the rules and
examples of possible solutions to
common addressing problems
• Paper version distributed to
municipalities
• Online order form for extras
• Available online for browsing
and download
92 pages
68 pages
Assigning Road Names and Addresses – guidelines
and examples, 2nd version, March 2009 (Danish)
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Address infrastructure
ÖGuidelines: What do they do
Ö They create awareness on the value for society
of good addresses and high quality address data
Ö Encourages good understanding and
harmonized implementation of the rules for
addressing
Ö Improves the efficiency and quality of public
administration
Ö Forms the basis for citizens understanding of the
common rules for addressing
Ö Gives examples of alternative solutions and
supports the development of best practices
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Address infrastructure
ÖInformation and awareness
Ö Website Adresse-info.dk
Ö Webpage for addresses and
address data.
Ö Explains the basic concepts (roles
and rules).
Ö Links to all relevant resources and
contacts.
Ö Supports address related projects
and “campaigns”.
Ö Highlights quality issues and
errors/omissions.
Citizens
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It-developers
Municipalities
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Address infrastructure
ÖInformation for the public
Visible addresses Denmark's
best Roadmap
Leaflet targeted to the citizen, the
property owner, the architect …
Explains who is responsible for
addresses and addressing
Standard text for use in
municipal websites, media etc.
Explains the basic concept an
purpose of addressing – and the
benefit for all citizens of having
good addresses
• Explaining in common words the
concepts, rules and value for
citizens of correct and visible
addressing
• Quotes from emergency and 112
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• Advising citizens of who to
contact for Q&A and reporting (in
case of problems)
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Address infrastructure
ÖInformation and awareness: What it
does
Ö It supports and raises awareness of addresses
as an important assets for public welfare, safety,
good governance and efficient business
Ö It enables a direct link of information to
municipalities, it-developers and citizens
Ö It informs citizens on the roles and regulation for
addresses and creates awareness of good
addressing practice
Ö It enables an efficient feed back to the
responsible local and government bodies
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Address infrastructure
ÖKey words, findings, challenges
Ö Define roles
Ö Create best possible transparency
Ö Ensure a common understanding
Ö Enforce by regulation
Ö Cooperation, cooperation, cooperation
Ö An ongoing process
Based on a policy of addresses being a common assets,
public infrastructure and common reference data!
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Optimized utilization of addresses
ÖThe goal of this best practice case is:
Öto demonstrate the impact for business,
government and citizens, if a society decides to
break down economic barriers of use and reuse
of address data, by making data and services
accessible only at the marginal costs of delivery.
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Final Conclusion of WP 2
ÖAdequately predicted
picture of the European
address system
situation:
“ the workflow of
address registration is
currently far from being
harmonized”.
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WP5 Data Flow
ÖMain objectives:
ÖTo define a general European prototype
workflow (Harmonization of procedures regarding
addresses Data flow at a European level) …
Ö… to realize a national address interface
(node) (strategy to build up national nodes for
access to addresses)
…
Ö… to fulfill the INSPIRE directive!
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How did we do?
ÖDefine keywords/milestones for the European
dataflow
ÖSituation in the MS
ÖDerive a generalised framework for the best
practice data flow
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1. Define keywords/milestones
for the European dataflow
Ö At a start we defined the necessary keywords to
describe an address dataflow:
ÖAddress
ÖRegistration / Address assignment
ÖGeoreferencing / Geocoding
ÖMerging / Consolidation
ÖHarmonising
ÖMigration / Transform
ÖDistribution
ÖLaw
ÖPrivate competition
ÖData quality management
ÖData source cadastre
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Define keywords/milestones for
the European dataflow
ÖSome examples:
ÖAddress:
Location of properties based on address identifiers,
ÖRegistration / Address assignment
usually by road name, house number, postal code, name
The local
registration
authority
of town
and optional
house
name. determines an address for
ÖMerging
/ Consolidation
a
property,
usually
as soon
as Specifications)
it is planned, built up or
Feature Type Address (INSPIRE
Data
In
the merging
the georeferenced addresses
hasÖExternal
a final
buildingprocesses
approval.
input
An identification of the fixed location of property, e.g. plot
from several sources have to be put or accessed
Externalpart
enrichment
of data
third parties
(e.g.
of land, building,
of building,
way by
of access
or other
together on a local, regional or national level.
inclusion
of postal
code from composition
the national postal
service
construction,
by means
of a structured
of
within
theand
Member
State).
geographic
names
identifiers.
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Situation in the MS
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Conclusion on the general
European prototype workflow
ÖIt wasn’t possible to make a European
prototype workflow……
ÖBut we could derive a generalised
framework for the best practice data flow……
ÖAnd we had to describe the barriers, gabs
and motivation factors to realize or
implement a Best Practice Data Flow in a
Member State.
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Derive a generalised framework for
the best practice data flow
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Motivation factors, barriers and gaps
on different levels
ÖWhat could motivate a Member State to change
its existing Data Flow into the European Best
Practice Data Flow? Why should a Member
State without an existing Data Flow follow the
rules of these recommendation guidelines?
ÖWhat would be the elements that could prevent a
Member State from adapting this Best Practice
Data Flow?
ÖWhat would be the gaps in the organisation of a
Member State that could affect the adoption of
this Best Practice Data Flow?
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Motivation factors, barriers and
gaps on different levels
lokal level
regional level
national level
Milestone
+
-
gaps
+
-
gaps
+
-
gaps
georeference
merging
migration
hamonising
distribution
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Motivation factors
Ö Examples on motivation factors:
Ö A fundamental aspect to motivate to the implementation
of the European Workflow is the economic one……. it
may be possible to reduce problems regarding the
exchange of information and hence solving issues
related with addresses in a lively and faster way. This
would imply an important saving and an optimisation of
the provided services.
Ö The problem is though, that it is not necessarily the same
agents who will get advantages as those who will have to
do the work and have the expenses. So in some cases it
will only be if you look at the broad socio-economic view,
that the economics will be a motivational factor for
implementing a new Data Flow.
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Motivation factors
Ö Examples on motivation factors:
Ö the use of a better Data Flow will give better addresses
which again will give a higher use of address data. This
would bring a major commercial interest from both Public
Administrations and Private companies. The
municipalities (local level) would take advantage of this
new process and will improve the information they
manage, which will make them more consistent, as they
may still be using incomplete or inaccurate data. Public
Administrations related to safety or the environment
could also use these data to provide services like
emergency alert systems (e.g. fire, flood etc.) with more
reliability.
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Barriers and gaps
ÖExamples on barriers:
Ö rigid legislation, differences of procedures, organisation, data
management and data storage, not only among Member States
but also among authorities in charge of address information in the
same country.
ÖExamples on gabs:
Ö Lack of organisations with clearly defined competences, lack of
economic resources, lack of regulation or procedures in the data
management
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Results of the WP5
Öincludes
descriptions of
the address
situation in six
of the countries
involved
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Thanks for your attention
Ö EURADIN project: www.euradin.eu
Ö Web-site, information, guidelines: www.adresse-info.dk
Ö Danish Enterprise and Construction Authority: www.ebst.dk
Ö Kirsten Elbo: [email protected]
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