ANDALUSIAN SDI (IDEANDALUCIA). THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF A
PROJECT
M. Barea Solis, M. Redondo, E. PARDO Perez
Instituto de cartografia de Andalucia
moises.barea@juntadeandalucia.es
The Institute of Cartography of Andalusia belonging to the
Public Works and Transport Area of the Andalusian Government is the organism
that has assigned the functions of programming and elaboration the basic and
derived cartography of the second region more extend in Spain (about 87000
square kilometres of dynamic areas) and the coordination and cartographic
normalization of the thematic cartography and cartographic data bases (Low
141/2006, July 18th). Also, there is regulated the Spatial Data
Infrastructure of Andalusia (IDEAndalucia), which tries to lead all the spatial
information placed in the territory of the region and developed by the
different generating agents (public entities, private companies, etc...).
Everything according with the newly approved INSPIRE proposal for a directive
of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing an infrastructure
for spatial information in the Community.
The Andalusian SDI first steps were given few years ago,
though it has not been until March 2006 the moment in which the SDI web started
working. (http://andaluciajunta.es/IDEAndalucia/IDEA.shtml). Giving WMS
services of orthophotography (three series 2004, 2001 and 1998) and vectorial
and raster cartography (1:100000 scale), covering the whole territory. On the
other hand, the Andalusian SDI has one of the few metadata catalogues (CS-W)
that exist in Spain opened on web. In our catalogue there are stored more than
12000 records, being able to be consulted and even to visualize in some cases
the information. This metadata information is realized by a specific profile of
the norm ISO-19115 and nowadays we are working to transform them to the
ISO-19139 scheme.
The software used for the servers and the operative system is
proprietary. Now we are testing all the open source map servers analysing what
they give us concerning the different standards, Mapserver for WMS and WCS and
Geoserver for WFS. This work join with what is being done from the local
government, existing a Linux distribution developed by them (Guadalinex) and
also a repository of software with GIS tools.
Therefore, the Andalusian SDI is one of many doors opened by
the Government of Andalusia to show our territory, in this case the spatial
existing dates, being accessible by the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium)
standards. These are the reasons why from the Institute of Cartography of
Andalusia we want to show you our work related to the Spatial Date
Infrastructures.