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Spatial Data Infrastructures in Croatia: State of play 2010 SPATIAL APPLICATIONS DIVISION K.U.LEUVEN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Celestijnenlaan 200 E, BE-3001 LEUVEN TEL.: 32 16 32 97 32 FAX: 32 16 32 97 24 URL: http://www.sadl.kuleuven.be Report meta-information Title Spatial Data Infrastructures in Croatia: State of Play 2010 Creator Danny Vandenbroucke & Dimitrios Biliouris (SADL) Date Issued 2010-09-01 Subject INSPIRE State of Play Publisher K.U.Leuven (SADL + ICRI) Description This report is summarizing the review of SDI in Croatia Contributor Dimitrios Biliouris; Danny Vandenbroucke (SADL); Katleen Janssen (ICRI), Joep Crompvoets (OE) Format MS Word 97/2000 Audience INSPIRE stakeholders Identifier rcr09HRv11.doc Language EN Coverage Autumn 2009 – Spring 2010 Version number Date Modified by Comments 1.0 2010-12-05 Dimitrios Biliouris First version (SADL) 1.1 2010-08-31 Katleen Janssen (ICRI) First draft of the legal framework EC-INSPIRE: Spatial Data Infrastructures in Europe: State of play Spring 2010 Croatia Executive summary The Republic of Croatia is one of the successor States of the former Yugoslavia. Croatia did not have at that moment the developed State institutions that were ready to take over all the functions that a State fulfils. However, a strong economic development, especially in the building sector, real property transactions, financial sector, tourism and transport increased the need and set the basis for an accurate, reliable and up-to-date spatial data. The NSDI in Croatia is under development. Certain parts do exist, which refer primarily to spatial data, legislative and technical infrastructure. The State Geodetic Administration (SGA), in charge of the official cartography and cadastre, and the Ministry of Justice in charge of the land registers has given priority to necessary reforms in order to establish an NSDI. The first legislation concerning SDI in Croatia came into force in February 2007. A separate chapter defining SDI was included in the new Law on State Survey and Real Estate Cadastre. At the time the Law was being prepared, the proposal for the INSPIRE directive was published, so all articles defining NSDI are in line with INSPIRE. Through enforcement of that Law, the Croatian Government on 31st May 2007 appointed a chairman and the members of the NSDI Council. The SGA acts as the Secretariat of the SDI Council, coordinates all SDI bodies and provides technical support. In May 2008, the SGA issued a publication on the National Spatial Data Infrastructure in the Republic of Croatia that was printed in Croatian. An SGA Geoportal is currently available built according to Reference architecture of geospatial portals defined by Open GIS consortium (OGC), and on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles and in-line with ISO/OGC standards and INSPIRE directive. The Geoportal offers a metadata driven catalogue-service for publish-and-find functionality. The catalogue contains metadata descriptions of all resources and allows users and other applications/portals to query and find these resources. K.U.Leuven (SADL) 1 EC-INSPIRE: Spatial Data Infrastructures in Europe: State of play Spring 2010 Croatia Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .......................................................................................................................... 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................................................. 2 ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS..................................................................................................... 3 1. GENERAL INFORMATION.................................................................................................... 4 1.1 METHOD........................................................................................................................................ 4 1.2 NSDI-RELATED ACTORS AND INITIATIVES IN CROATIA................................................................. 4 2 DETAILS OF NSDI OF CROATIA ......................................................................................... 5 2.1 GENERAL INFORMATION ............................................................................................................... 5 2.2 COMPONENT 1: COORDINATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL ISSUES.................................................... 6 2.3 COMPONENT 2: LEGAL FRAMEWORK AND FUNDING .....................................................................10 2.4 COMPONENT 3: DATA FOR THEMES OF THE INSPIRE ANNEXES...................................................15 2.5 COMPONENT 4: METADATA .........................................................................................................18 2.6 COMPONENT 5: NETWORK SERVICES ...........................................................................................20 2.7 COMPONENT 6: THEMATIC ENVIRONMENTAL DATA .....................................................................22 2.8 STANDARDS .................................................................................................................................25 2.9 USE AND EFFICIENCY OF THE NSDI..............................................................................................26 3 ANNEXES..................................................................................................................................27 3.1 SDI ADDRESSES & CONTACTS FOR CROATIA................................................................................27 3.2 LIST OF REFERENCES FOR CROATIA..............................................................................................27 K.U.Leuven (SADL) 2 EC-INSPIRE: Spatial Data Infrastructures in Europe: State of play Spring 2010 Croatia Abbreviations and acronyms CT Core Thematic Data CGI Croatian Geodetic Institute CROMAC Croatian Mine Action Centre CROPOS CROatian POsitioning System DCM Digital Cadastral Mps DSP Differential Positioning Service DTM Digital Terrain Model ENC Electronic Navigational Charts FIR Further Investigation Required GI Geographical Information GINIE Geographic Information Network in Europe GIS Geographical Information System GNSS l Navigation Satellite Systems HHI Croatian Hydrographic Institute HITRO.HR Service of the Government of Republic of Croatia intended for quick communication of citizens and business subjects with the state administration. HTRS Croatian Terrestrial Referent System INSPIRE INfrastructure for SPatial InfoRmation in Europe ISO International Organization for Standardization MSDI Maritime SDI NaGii National Geographic Information Infrastructure NIA No Information Available NMA National Mapping Agency NMCA National Mapping and Cadastre Authorities NSDI National Spatial Data Infrastructures OGC Open Geospatial Consortium OPIS Operational Program – Information Society PPP Public-Private Partnerships PSI Policy and legislation on access to public sector information REF Reference data SDI Spatial Data Infrastructures SGA State Geodetic Administration SOA Service Oriented Architecture WFD Water Framework Directive K.U.Leuven (SADL) 3 EC-INSPIRE: Spatial Data Infrastructures in Europe: State of play Spring 2010 Croatia 1. GENERAL INFORMATION 1.1 Method This report is summarizing the SDI review for Croatia, and aims at reflecting the degree to which the SDI situation in Croatia is similar to the ideas set out in the INSPIRE position papers1 and to the more recent INSPIRE scoping documents. For the 2009 report the survey questionnaire was used, along with various web sources, publications and the geoportal. A conclusion paragraph regarding the status of each indicator was added for each component. 1.2 NSDI-related actors and initiatives in Croatia The NSDI in Croatia is currently under development. Certain parts do exist, which refer primarily to spatial data, legislative and technical infrastructure. Spatial data producers create data in digital form, and a big amount of the existing analogue data has been digitized. Access to these data is nevertheless limited to direct contact with the producer or sometimes to a few webpages available of a specific producer. An issue that need to be resolved is fragmentation and existence of the double records and databases, which results in redundancy and inefficiency (Cetl et al., 2009). Adjustments of the legal framework have been a great improvement in the NSDI development. The first legislation concerning SDI in Croatia came into force in February 2007. A separate chapter defining SDI was included in the new Law on State Survey and Real Estate Cadastre. At the time the Law was being prepared, the proposal for the INSPIRE directive was published, so all articles defining NSDI are in line with INSPIRE (Bačić et al., 2008). Through enforcement of that Law, the Croatian Government on 31st May 2007 appointed a chairman and the members of the NSDI Council (Official Gazette, 16/07) (Cetl et al.,2009). The State Geodetic Administration (SGA), in charge of the official cartography and cadastre, and the Ministry of Justice in charge of the land registers has given priority to necessary reforms in order to establish an NSDI. Real Property Registration and Cadastre Project was launched in 2003 and co-financed by a World Bank loan, European Union assistance funds and State Budget totalling EUR 47 million. Its main goal was to accelerate land administration processes and to help operation of cadastral offices and municipal courts (Rašić and Bačić, 2010) A number of concrete steps and research initiatives have been followed towards