EuroGeographics

QKEN Spring 2018 Plenary Meeting
2018-05-23 - 2018-05-25
The 2018 Spring Plenary meeting of the Quality Knowledge Exchange Network was held in Dublin, Ireland on the 23 – 25 May 2018. The meeting was hosted by OSi.
See the agenda
Minutes and agreed actions 928kb PDF
National Reports 1MB PDF
Presentations

Title
Author
Size/Type

Opening of the meeting and welcome by (CEO Ordnance Survey Ireland)
Colin Bray
5MB PDF

News from EuroGeographics Head Office
Carol Agius
2MB PDF

Geospatial & Statistics – Collaboration in Ireland
Lorraine McNerney
4 MB PDF

Data Quality Rules – Prime2
Peter Hallahan
3 MB pdf

Named Group Editor
Peter Hallahan
881 kb PDF

New EuroGeographics Website and brand
Carol Agius
0.3 MB PDF

ISO Standards Update
Gunhild Lönnberg
713 kb PDF

Disruptive Technology and the impact on NMCAs
Carol Agius
0.4 MBPDF

Core reference data
Carol Agius
0.23 MB PDF

Implementing Data Quality Standards – Motivators/Barriers
Serena Coetzee
3 MB PDF

Data Quality and Linked Data
Rob Brennan
3 MB PDF

Group Work
Defining the value of Authoritative Data:

Results from discussion group 1
Results from discussion group 2

Use of Algorithms on Big DEMs – Better Utilization of National Detailed Elevation Models
2018-04-04 - 2018-04-05
EuroSDR invites you to a workshop discussing:
“Use of algorithms on big DEMs – Better utilization of national detailed elevation models”
The workshop will be arranged as a noon to noon meeting at the County Governor’s office in Tønsberg, Norway.
We welcome speakers from industry, academia and government.
Possible topics (not in prioritized order): Discuss the use of algorithms on big DEMs, in the following applications:

Automatic detection of waterbodies in LiDAR
Improvement of hydro network
Mapping of poles and powerlines
Obstacles for aviation – International view ICAO
DEM from image matching – Multispectral Analysis
Copernicus – Creating DTM’s on hydrography
Cloud computing (AWS) – Automatic corrections in preparation of DTMs
DEM Analysis using Machine or deep Learning Algorithms
New data acquisition techniques and their processing (multispectral ALS, single- photon lidar)

More ideas/topics could come up and are welcome.
Please submit an abstract before March 1st to jon.arne.trollvik@kartverket.no
More information and registration…

2nd International Workshop on Spatial Data Quality
2018-02-06 - 2018-02-07
Following the successful workshop on spatial data quality in Malta in January 2015 a second workshop will be held in Valletta, Malta on 6th and 7th February 2018.
The full announcement for the workshop is available here.
The list of papers accepted for the workshop is available here.
Information about the venue and hotels is available here. Please note the speakers and delegates are responsible for their own travel and accommodation arrangements.
Deadline for registration: 21 January 2018.
Deadline for abstract submission: 15 October 2017.
Registration to this event is now closed.

Tuesday 6th February

Session 1: Geospatial Standards, Chair: Jonathan Holmes

Management and quality system for geographic information, based on ISO TC/211 regulations

Robledo Ceballos Joselyn Alejandra (presented by Antony Cooper)

ISO 9001 for spatial data: ICGC experience

Dolors Barrot and Maria Pla

Implementing geospatial data quality standards – motivators and barriers

Serena Coetzee, Franz-Josef Behr and Antony K Cooper

Session 2: Data Quality, Chair: Ray Patrucco

Assessing the quality of OpenStreetMap road data in part of Tshwane, South Africa

Ernest Yzel and Antony Cooper

Quality of spatial data in court proceedings

Jordi Sandalinas

A quality control method for non-normal positional error data using a multinomial approach

Francisco Javier Ariza-López, José Rodríguez-Avi, José L. García-Balboa and Virtudes Alba-Fernández

Session 3: Quality Requirements, Chair: Antti Jakobsson

Quality requirements for core data

Dominique Laurent and François Chirié

Eliciting User and Producer Views on Geospatial Data Quality

Hasti Ziaimatin, Alireza Nili, Alistair Barros, Ivana Ivánová and Tom Spencer

Session 4: Frameworks & Quality Models, Chair: Christina Wasström

Towards an Ontology for Geospatial User-centric Metadata

Hasti Ziaimatin, Alistair Barros, Ivana Ivánová and Tom Spencer

From quality on spatial data to data quality vocabulary (DQV) for the Semantic Web – the Norwegian experience of aligning ISO 19157 Data Quality to DQV

Morten Borrebaek and Magni Busterud

Forming Quality Model for cadastral data using International Standards – The Hellenic cadastre experience

Ioannis Kavvadas

Wednesday 7th February

Session 5: Automation, Chair: Carol Agius

Experiences on using Data Quality Measures for automatic validation of geographical datasets

Erling Onstein and Knut Jetlund

Towards Automating Spatial Data Quality Evaluation in the Finnish National Topographic Database

Riikka Kivekäs and Nils Mesterton

How Data Quality Automation Delivers Improved Productivity

Daniel Warner and Seb Lessware

Session 6: Confusion Matrices and their use in Spatial Data Quality, Chair: Jonathan Holmes

Confusion Matrices and their use in Spatial Data Quality

José L. García-Balboa, María V. Alba-Fernández, Francisco J. Ariza-López and José Rodrígue-Avi

Session 8: Data Visualisation, Chair: Serena Coetzee

Visualization of quality in the Cadaster Index Map at Lantmäteriet

Torsten Svärd

Visualisation of spatial register data quality in public dashboards

Anouk Huisman – van Zijp

QKEN Autumn 2017 Plenary Meeting
2017-10-18 - 2017-10-20
Plenary meeting of the Quality Knowledge Exchange Network was held in Frankfurt, Germany on the 18th – 20th October 2017.
Download the draft agenda.

Minutes and agreed actions
National Reports

Presentations

Title
Author
Size/type

News from head office
Carol Agius
2.6 MB, PDF

New EuroGeographics strategy

3.5 MB, PDF

Creation of UAV-based orthoimages and evaluation for the use in cadastral mapping
Ionnis Kavadas
4.3 MB, PDF

Specification of governmental acceptance about the quality control of aerial photos etc. in connection with new technology
Tamás Palya
3.3 MB, PDF

Creation and control processes of raster/lidar data will be split from creation and control of vector data into different departments
Raitis Boļšakovs & Zane Liepiņa
3.2 MB, PDF

Using ISO 19158
Jonathan Holmes
1 MB, PDF

Use of ISO 19100 Quality Standards report
Gunhild Lönnberg
1.2 MB, PDF

ISO Standards Update
Gunhild Lönnberg
288 kb, PDF

Host Presentations

Title
Author
Type/size

Introduction from Director General of BKG
Hansjörg Kutterer
1.75 MB, PDF

Quality management of geodata at the Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG)
Eszter Kiss
1.8 MB, PDF

LBM-DE: German Land Cover Model – Quality Assurance
Friederike Emig
1.5 MB, PDF

INSPIRE implementation: Example of DLM250
Sandra Niering
675 kb, PDF

Overviews of Temporal accuracy of nationwide datasets provided by the BKG
Henry Schubert
3.1 MB, PDF

GDI-DE Testsuite – More cooperation, better quality
Falk Würriehausen & Christian Seip
1.3 MB, PDF

International Workshop on Improving the Usability of Geospatial Data
2017-06-14
Producers of geospatial data wish to be able to maximise the use of their data and solve users’ problems quickly. Understanding whether a dataset is suitable for an intended use is critical in deciding which dataset to use. All too often, users only find that the dataset is unsuitable for use after they have invested time and effort in it.
Most producers create some quality metrics but these are often difficult to interpret. The elements described in ISO19157 are written in a technical language and are purely for specialists. Few outside the world of spatial data quality understand them. The producers of such data have the ability to measure the quality of the data but are unlikely to know what use a potential user is likely to try and use the data for. Indeed, they may not even know or meet the user.
What’s required is a method of communicating the quality information in a way that the user will be able to follow. The solution must be simple enough for the potential user to understand, yet clear enough, to allow potentially detailed information to be communicated. The method must also work for datasets produced at different scales. Done well, this could significantly enhance the user experience when searching for new datasets to use.
This workshop will bring together producers, users, and academics in order to examine the issue in greater detail. We will hear what producers know about their data and what users really need to know. We will also look at the ways that other industries have solved these issues. In the afternoon, we will discuss potential solutions and options for research into the topic.
Workshop outline can be found here.
See the agenda.
Workshop presentations

Title
Author

Introduction to EuroSDR
Jon Arne Trollvik, EuroSDR

Data quality from a producer’s perspective 1
Ed Mainwaring, Ordnance Survey Great Britain

Data quality from a producer’s perspective 2
Dolors Barrot, Institute Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya

A university perspective
Claire Ellul, University College London

How other industries have addressed these issues
Jonathan Holmes, Eurogeographics QKEN Chair

Breakout Sessions (Three Groups) – Notes

Recording
YouTube

Workshop output

Research Proposal
18 kb, DOC

QKEN Spring 2017 Plenary Meeting
2017-04-05 - 2017-04-07
Plenary meeting of the Quality Knowledge Exchange Network will be held in Ljubljana on the 5–7 April 2017.
See the agenda – 1.3 MB, DOCX
Minutes and Agreed Actions – 26 kb, DOCX
National Reports.
Presentations

Title
Author
Size/type

News from Head Office
Carol Agius
2.5 MB, PDF

Methodology to ensure consistency of data between cadastral map and orthophotos
Ilze Pauliņa
2 MB, PDF

Multi Resolution Data Store (MRDS)
Peter Hallahan
2 MB, PDF

Open Data
Thierry Prin
1.2 MB, PDF

Document system for Data Specifications
Gunhild Lönnberg
2 MB, PDF

ISO Standards Update
Gunhild Lönnberg
303 kb, PDF

Behind the scenes
Stefan Flury
2 MB, PDF

Validating a water network
Jonathan Holmes
1.7 MB, PDF

Report from EuroSDR Crowdsourcing workshop
Carol Agius
625 kb, PDF

Host Presentations

Title
Author
Size/type

SMA presentation
Tomaž Petek
6.8 MB, PDF

Quality issues and SMA
Irena Ažman
5.4 MB, PDF

Improvement of data in the new E-space project
Simon Sevnšek
1.3 MB, PDF

Group Work

Title
Size/type

Introduction to Group Work
295 kb, PDF

Group 1 Notes
308 kb, PDF

Group 2 Notes
424 KB, PDF
