The document summarizes several workshops held from October 2010 to April 2011 related to the Plan4all project. It describes workshops held in Rome, Italy; Pilsen, Czech Republic; Ostrava, Czech Republic; Riga, Latvia focused on spatial planning data harmonization; Brussels, Belgium on spatial planning in Europe and INSPIRE; and additional workshops convened by EUROGI members. The workshops aimed to disseminate information about the Plan4all project and its data models, facilitate discussion of spatial data harmonization, and explore relationships between spatial planning and INSPIRE initiatives.

1. D9.7.4 Workshops and Conferences
ECP-2008-GEO-318007
Plan4all
Workshops and Conferences
Deliverable number D9.7.4
Dissemination level Public
Delivery date 30th April 2011
Status Final
Author(s) UWB, EUROGI
eContentplus
This project is funded under the eContentplus programme1,
a multiannual Community programme to make digital content in Europe more accessible, usable and exploitable.
1 OJ L 79, 24.3.2005, p. 1.
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Table of Contents
1. Plan4all workshop during the Conference on Spatial Planning ............................................. 3
2. University seminar on spatial planning .................................................................................. 5
3. Workshop during the GIS Ostrava 2011 Conference Meeting .............................................. 6
4. Plan4all Data Harmonisation Workshop ................................................................................ 6
5. Spatial Planning in Europe in terms of INSPIRE .................................................................. 8
6. Plan4all Workshops for Stakeholders .................................................................................... 9
7. Plan4all workshops already convened by EUROGI ............................................................ 10
8. Technical Meeting in Olomouc ............................................................................................ 11
References ................................................................................................................................ 12
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3. D9.7.4 Workshops and Conferences
During the period from October 2010 until April 2011 there were organised several Plan4all
workshops. The summary below excludes the ones organised by EUROGI members. The
reports from all the EUROGI Communication and Dissemination Workshops (a list of those
already held is included in this report) will be submitted by the end of the project, October
2011.
1. Plan4all workshop during the Conference on Spatial
Planning
Date: 13th October 2010
Venue: Rome, Italy
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The programme of the Conference:
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2. University seminar on spatial planning
Date: 26th October 2010
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Venue: Pilsen, Czech Republic
3. Workshop during the GIS Ostrava 2011 Conference Meeting
Date: 24th January 2011
Venue: Ostrava, Czech Republic
Agenda:
 Plan4all (Tomas Mildorf) 15 minutes
 Help forest (Petr Horak) 15 minutes
 Geoportal4everybody (Karel Charvat) 15 minutes
 HSLayers (Jachym Cepicky) 15 minutes
 Briseide + SDI-EDU (Karel Janecka) 15 minutes
 Discussion 30 minutes
4. Plan4all Data Harmonisation Workshop
Date: 14 – 16 February 2011
Venue: Riga, Latvia
Sunday, 13th February, 2011
Arrival:
Suggested hotel: http://www.alberthotel.lv/default-en.html
Monday, 14th February, 2011
Place of the Workshop: The Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science,
University of Latvia (IMCS UL) http://www.lumii.lv/?lang=en
09:00 Opening of the Workshop. Introduction of the Latvian partners and
Plan4all partners
09: 20 Theory of harmonisation and principals, Explanation of the
harmonisation problems (T.6.1), Karel Charvat (HSRS)
10:20 The Plan4all conceptual data model explanation. Otakar Cerba,
Karel Jedlicka and Jan Jezek (UWB):
 Introduction into P4A data models
 Present an example of one data model (to understand the way,
how they are documented)
 Short description of UML Class Diagram concepts and
introduction to feature catalogues.
 Individual study of Plan4All data models (it is necessary to
prepare printed materials for each partner group) connected
with individual consultations with partners involved in data
modelling tasks. Every partner providing data must be able to
understand of data models. This part of workshop will be used as
evaluation process of data models.
D4.2 deliverable will be used as reference material (please take printed
version)
11.20 Coffee break
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11:40 Plan4all conceptual data model explanation. Otakar Cerba, Karel
Jedlicka and Jan Jezek (UWB):
 Individual study of data models (it is necessary to prepare
printed materials for each partner group) connected with
individual consultations with partners involved in data
modelling tasks. Every partner providing data must be able to
understand of data models. This part of workshop will be used as
evaluation process of data models.
13: 00 Lunch break
13:50 Interactive work on sample data model
Conclusion and discussion upon particular data models of partners
responsible for Content Deployment (WP7) – Petr Horak (HF)
15:45 Coffee break
16:00 Continuous of the previous session (WP7) – Petr Horak (HF)
17:00 Closure of the day
19:30 Dinner (∼15-25 EUR/per participant)
th
Tuesday, 15 February, 2011
9:00 Departure from the hotel “Alberts” to Jelgava (by bus)
10:00 Overview of existing tools supporting data harmonisation, training
with concrete software - how is it possible to use Desktop GIS for
data transformation, existing software, how harmonisation could
run. Otakar Cerba, Karel Jedlicka and Jan Jezek (UWB):
 Arc GIS Model Builder
 PostGIS
 Humboldt tools
 GeoKettle
12:00 Lunch break
13:00  How could be defined transformation model, what are tasks of
transformation
 ZPR Example
 Searching of harmonisation items and steps of particular data
models created by partners – individual work connected with
consultations of UWB team
Result: description of the harmonisation steps for particular models
16:00 Coffee break
16:15 Validation of data models to be implemented (WP8)
16:45 Closure of the day
17:00 Departure to the Riga ( Visit of Lido in Riga, Krasta street) the costs
∼20 EUR/per participant
Wednesday, 16th February
Place of the Workshop: The Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science,
University of Latvia (IMCS UL) http://www.lumii.lv/?lang=en
9:00-10:00  E-learning tool developed by SDI EDU project as possibility for
preparation on data harmonization lectures
10:00-11:00  How to implement services for web based data transformation
11:00 Coffee break
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11:20  Training on concrete regional examples
 Individual consultation
14:00 Closure of the workshop
5. Spatial Planning in Europe in terms of INSPIRE
Date: 24 February 2011
Venue: Brussels, Belgium
Program:
 14.00 Welcome and Introduction, ISOCARP
 14.10 Needs on Spatial Datasets by spatial planning projects - Dirk Engelke
ISOCARP
 14.30 The Plan4all Project - Tomas Mildorf, Manfred Schrenk, Runar Bergheim
 14.50 The INSPIRE Initiative and the spatial planning aspects - François Salgé
 15.10 Coffee Break
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 15.30 Humboldt: Spatial Harmonisation for Integrated Urban Monitoring, David
Ludlow, UWE
 15.40 European CCR and Urban Monitoring - Ronan Uhel, Head Urban Environment
Unit, EEA
 16.00 Spatial Planning and INSPIRE – information requirements and presentation,
Robin Waters FRICS RSW Geomatics London
 16.20 Spatial planning; the Real Estate Industry and Spatial Data Infrastructure - Prof.
Angus McIntosh FRICS, Head of Research King Sturge LLP London
 16.40 Experts Discussion and conclusions
All the presentations and minutes from the meeting are available online at
http://www.plan4all.eu/simplecms/?menuID=29&articleID=86&action=article&presenter=Ar
ticleDetail
6. Plan4all Workshops for Stakeholders
Date: 6th December 2010
Venue: Valletta, Malta
Program:
1. Introduction by Jesmond Xuereb (FTZ).
The project focuses on “seven spatial data themes as outlined in Annex II and III of the
INSPIRE Directive [which are the following: Land cover, land use, utility and governmental
services, production and industrial facilities, agriculture and aquaculture facilities, area
management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units and natural risk zones” (Plan4all,
2010).
2. Presentation by Lawrence Attard
3. Discussion
MITA has taken over responsibility for the implementation of the INSPIRE Directive over
from MEPA. And ether than taking a top-down approach, a bottom-up approach needs to be
taken.
We need to draft a series of data sets. We need to follow implementation rules. One can only
gather data through metadata format. Data must be in pure GI (Geography Information)
Format. Each spatial data theme must be taken care of by the relevant authorities and bodies.
So for example, regarding the seven themes:
• land cover and land use – to be taken care of by MEPA
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• utility and governmental services – to be taken care of by LANDS/MEPA
• production and industrial facilities – to be taken care of by WASTESERV
• agriculture and aquaculture facilities – to be taken care of by FISHERIES AND
AGRICULTURE
• area management/restriction/regulation zones – to be taken care of by LANDS/Malta
Enterprise
• reporting units and natural risk zones – MIP/WASTSERV
Our aim is not to implement the seven spatial data themes but to identify which spatial data
from the seven themes outlined above is available for Malta.
4. Conclusion
From this workshop, we have seen that data is too scattered to be recorded. Therefore, we
must have one-to-one meetings with every stakeholder and see how we are going to reach an
agreement on collecting metadata. Every organisation must have the same format and
common software must be developed.
7. Plan4all workshops already convened by EUROGI
The documents produced by the workshop convened by the EUROGI members will be
published by the end of the project. The table lists the workshops that were already held.
MEETING EUROGI LOCATION DATE REF.
Member
PLAN4ALL national AMFM GIS Rome IT 06th http://www.amfm.it/attivita/confe
workshop – Italy Italy October renza2010/2.php
2010
PLAN4ALL national IRLOGI Dublin IE 14th http://www.irlogi.ie/GISIreland2010
workshop – Ireland October _Agenda.pdf
2010
PLAN4ALL national AGEO Vienna AT 23rd http://www.ageo.at/aktuelles/rau
workshop – Austria November mplanung
2010
PLAN4ALL national LISA Reykjavik IS 03rd http://www.landupplysingar.is/inde
workshop – Iceland February x.php?option=com_jevents&task=ical
2011 repeat.detail&evid=54&Itemid=0&ye
ar=2011&month=02&day=03&uid=73
48624fd9d2e9e5df3e7af053f8a4e4&l
ang=is
PLAN4ALL national GEONOVUM Amersfoort 03rd http://www.geonovum.nl/agenda/r
workshop – NL February o-standaarden/bros-meets-inspire
Netherlands 2011
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PLAN4ALL national HUNAGI Budapest 03rd http://unsdihu.blogspot.com/search
workshop – Hungary HU March ?updated-min=2011-01-
2011 01T00%3A00%3A00%2B01%3A00&upda
ted-max=2012-01-
01T00%3A00%3A00%2B01%3A00&max-
results=4
PLAN4ALL national GEOFORUM Middelfart 14th http://www.geoforum.dk/Default.a
workshop – DK March spx?ID=8740&gmId=204
Denmark 2011
PLAN4ALL national CEKTRA Ljubljana SI 19th April http://en.cektra.org/events/confer
workshop – 2011 ences/plan4all/
Slovenia
8. Technical Meeting in Olomouc
Date: 14 - 15 April 2011
Venue: Olomouc, Czech Republic
Agenda:
Thursday
 9:00 - 10:30 - Welcome. Discussion on the concept, presentation of structure of the
D.2 report
 10:30 - 11:00 - Coffee / tea break
 11:00 - 12:30 - Presentation of the existing solution in Sumperk, Olomouc and other
partners
 12:30 - 13:30 - Lunch
 13:30 - 15:00 - Specification of problems and their solution – modification of the
conceptual models, source and target data structures, ways how to transform data,
publication
 15:30 - 15:30 - Coffee / tea break
 15:30 - 17:00 - Solution of problems
Friday
 9:00 -10:30 - Solution of problems, Individual work
 10:30 - 11:00 - Coffe / tea break
 11:00 - 12:30 - Agreement on next steps and next technical meetings, modification of
the structure of the D.2 report on the basis of meeting comments, conclusion
 12:30 - 13:30 - Lunch
 13.30 Goodbye and closing
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References
INSPIRE Directive: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:L:2007:108:SOM:EN:HTML
INSPIRE Website: http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/
Plan4all Grant Agreement, Annex I - Description of Work
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