This document discusses enabling smart city services through facilitating the reuse of open geospatial data. It presents three key goals: 1) harmonizing geospatial and open data from various sources, 2) combining geospatial and open data to extract new insights, and 3) providing tools and skills for using location-based services in rapid service creation. The solution involves a consortium of organizations working to make geospatial data more accessible and usable for businesses and other stakeholders to develop new services.

1. Geo Info DATA FOR
INNOVATION
HUGO KERSCHOT
Matinale de l'Innovation - Smart Mobility
Issy-les -moulineaux, 13/03/2014

2. ENABLING SMART CITY SERVICES BY
FACILITATING THE RE-USE OF OPEN DATA
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ENABLING SMART CITY SERVICES BY
FACILITATING THE RE-USE OF OPEN GIS DATA

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CREATING SMART TRANSPORT SERVICES
BY FACILITATING THE RE-USE OF OPEN GIS
DATA

5. CHALLENGE
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Stimulate innovation, business activities and improved public
services by improving access to Open GI Data - especially for SMES
Data: disharmonized, scattered across different
domains, difficult to access, and, in the case of
VGI, not validated.
Technology: Spatial and non-spatial data needs
to be combined/ linked in order to extract value
and increase accuracy.
Innovation: Businesses and other stakeholders
need easier APIs and GUI for accessing and
analyzing data and new services to more easily
derive accurate insights and apply knowledge in a
real world context.

6. THREE KEY GOALS
Data Challenge: Harmonise GI and open data from a wide
variety of sources
Technology Challenge: Combine GI and open data to extract
new information and insights
Innovation Challenge: Provide tools and skills for using GI and
LBS in rapid service creation
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7. SOLUTION
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BENEFITS FOR END USER

9. BENEFITS FOR WIDER EU
(1) Facilitating use of GI in other
domains
(2) Contributing new input into
GI standards
(3) Increasing Public Knowledge
about GI
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11. The Consortium
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Organisation Kick-off Representative
1. CORVE (Flemish
eGovernment
Agency)
Geert Mareels
Lieven Raes
2. IS-Practice
Hugo Kerschot
Jiri Bouchal
3. Intrasoft
Antonis Ramfos
Bapis Ipektsidis
4. 21c Consultancy
Susie Ruston
Raluca Ionescu
5. Birmingham City
Council
Philip Edwards
6. iMinds
Shenja van der Graaf
Pieter Colpaert
Carina Veeckman
7. CEN Group
Steve Cross
Megan Cross
Organisation Kick-off Representative
8. Help Service –
Remote Sensing
Karel Charvát
Karel Charvát jr.
9. Issy Media
Eric Legale
Laetitia Vaysse
10. EDIP
Lud k Bartošě
Jana Bartošová
Jan Martolos
11. University of West
Bohemia
Tomáš Mildorf
Karel Jedli kač
Jan Ježek
12. Exigen Agris Snepts
Indulis Makens
13. Antwerp
Gerrie Smits
Steven Sterkx
14. Athens Technology
Centre
Eva Jaho
Sofia Vasilliou

13. Thank you
More information:
Hugo.kerschot@is-practice.eu