Antti Jakobsson
National Land Survey of Finland
Antti Jakobsson works at the National Land Survey of Finland, currently he is the programme manager of the Geospatial Platform Project, which is co-ordinated by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. He has been working with developement of national mapping, international standardisation and data quality. Between 2008-2012 he was the programme manager at EuroGeographics, association of the national mapping, cadastral and land registries in Europe.
The Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry as part of the government digitalisation programme started a project to build a national geospatial platform in March 2017. The project partners include the National Land Survey of Finland, the Ministry of Environment and the Finnish Environment Institute. The objective of the platform is to provide shared services and datasets for the users and common data specifications and services for provision of interoperability to data providers. The aim is to open the first version of the platform in the end of 2019. The platform project is divided into eight subprojects: the National Topographic Database, INSPIRE-services, the spatial data infrastructure for regions, land use planning, addresses, support and training services, the distribution of satellite imagery and the technical infrastructure.
Presentation will explain how the National Geospatial Platform will be implemented and how the ecosystem of Built Environment will benefit of it. A working ecosystem needs to address how interoperability will be achieved when data is produced by municipalities (311), regions and governmental agencies. National platform will provide interoperability tools for solving this issue but also common specifications are needed. One of the key components is the automated quality guard service.
Platform will interact with the digital government platform (suomi.fi) using identification service, map viewing service (suomi.fi/kartat) and general interoperability tools provided (YTI-hanke). Linked Open Data services will be also introduced. All features will be available through re-direction service www.paikkatiedot.fi and an information card is provided for each feature.
National Geospatial Platform will provide change-only updates, tools for management of life-cycle of features, provide 3D buildings, other built features and land use information. IFC/BIM-models will be used for updating building data. This will enable introduction of new applications and platforms benefiting not only the public sector but also the industry.
