MapStore in a Danish context

NORDIQ GROUP At Nordiq Group, we combine architecture, urban planning, engineering, and technology, working as consultants at both a strategic and operational level. We work for municipalities, the state and regions, contractors, and developers. We work with global megatrends and understand all the interfaces within the urban value chain. Nordiq Group is employee-owned and employs around 50 people.

Our clients • We work for – Municipalities – Regions – Ministries – Utility companies – Private companies

MapStore – By Nordiq

MapStore in Nordiq • We have been using MapStore since 2020, but over the last couple of years we have invested heavily in development of a ”Danish version” of MapStore – Translation – Plugins for the public sector – Integration to Danish services • We see an opening in the market, where there is already a big use of open-source GIS software • We released our first version of MapStore in September and now have 3 Danish municipalities using MapStore as there main GIS tool for case working

Agenda Denmark and GIS in Denmark Case 1 – Building case Case 2 – Public announcement

Fact sheet about Denmark Small country in the northern part of Europe • Around 6 million people • 98 municipalities • 42.394 square km • 8.750 km coastline (longer than India) • We have a big public sector – Many laws – Totally over registered (in GIS terms)

SDI in Denmark • Free and open data from 2013 – Basic data (parcels, persons, property, companies, heights, land use, …) – Planning data – Environmental data – Meteorological data – … • Many data sources are centralized in national wide databases and are maintained by public institutions (governmental agencies, municipalities or regions) • Over 2000 free public WMS/WFS services (OGC standards are a huge success) • All big public agencies are providing different GIS services

The Danish WebGIS market

Case 1: Buildingcase

Case 1: Building case • We are now a caseworker in a Danish municipality “Albertslund” • We have got a building application from the owner of the property located at the address “Herstedøstergade 2, 2600 Albertslund” • The owner wants to replace the old house with a new one, located in a different place on the parcel • The owner has sent information and plans for the new building and the process

Search for the address • First, we locate the address using the search tool • Search have been integrated into the Danish national search service (GSearch) and Septima Search

Investigation of the property • Choose the EJD tool • Point out the property on the map • See property information

Property information • Gives information about – Property and subproperties (eg. main building and all the apartments) • Owner name, property ID, owners address, owner relations, ownerpart, … – Parcels • Name, cadastral district, Area, Parcel ID, … – Addresses • Roadname, number, road code, zip code, … – People • Name, age, gender, address, address protection, social security number, …

Further investigation • See oblique photos • See in google street view or Cowi streetview

Regulation control • In Denmark there are a lots of regulations, laws and so on… • I will take a few of them here in this short demo – Church building lines (Kirkebyggelinjer) – Forrest building lines (skovbyggelinjer) – Local development plans – Development area (within a local development plan)

GeometrySearch Plugin for generating reports • Used by case workers to support decisions, based on geodata • Finds layers/features that intersects a search geometry (in this case our parcel) • Create a report with the results • Easy to maintain by a special map type

GeometrySearch • Select tool:

GeometrySearch • Select from drop down:

GeometrySearch • Chose to draw or pick geometries from existing layers

Draw Geometry • Draw point, line, polygon

Pick geometry from layers • Picks from layers that are visible (and searchable) • Merges geometries to a single geometry • From the list it is possible to delete features

Preview • Preview of data • List of layers: – With hits – Without hits – Errors • Filter result • Create report

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Documentation • Now the caseworker can save the report in the "Electronic Case Management System" (ECMS), where the cases are usually stored for at least 5 years • The report is a snapshot of things as they where, when the report was made

Types of GeometrySearch reports • There are usually more than 20 different geometrysearch reports to support the case working within: – Nature – Building – Climate – Environment – Road management – …

Case 2: Public announcement

Case 2 - Public announcement • The utility company is about to roll out district heating in a settlement and want to contact all property owners, companies and residents in the area • The area is located in Odense • We want to send letters to all owners, administrators companies, and residents • We use our tool, DistributionLists, to generate an Excel file that can be used in thirdparty tools for sending mail or emails

Distributionlists Used for hearings regarding plans. The plugin creates a list of – Residents – Owners – Companies – Administrators – Others The list can be imported to third- party applications for sending mails etc.

Workflow • First, we select the tool and choose the list we want to export

Workflow • Chose to draw or pick geometries from existing layers

Workflow • Draw point, line, polygon

Workflow • Picks from layers that are visible (and searchable) • Merges geometries to a single geometry • From the list it is possible to delete features

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Distributionlists • The report is generated and available as download • Format is excel

Excel Report