Spatial plans of municipalities/cities/ egions in EU member states and development of related services

[Ana-SGA]

Dear all,

could you please share your experiences with the development of services and harmonization for official spatial plans of regions/cities/municipalities in your country?

We are especially interested in:

• In what format are the official spatial plans of regions/cities/municipalities in your country?
• If the official version of the spatial plan is in analog form, but there is a scanned version (such as pdf, jpg, tiff) - is it INSPIRE spatial data (example attached)? With or without the legend?
• If the plans are made in electronic form (according to the law), but the official version is analogous - is it INSPIRE data?
• What type of data do your spatial plans contain (eg buildings, traffic, infrastructure (which), telecommunications, public lighting ...)?
• Since buildings on spatial plans contain, for example, a lower level of detail than in the theme Buildings, it is not necessary to separate them by individual themes?
• Is there an obligation in EU/INSPIRE legislation to develop INSPIRE harmonized network services for scanned spatial plans?
• According to which scheme do you harmonize your spatial plans? Eg. our spatial plans contain both Existing and Planned Land use.
• If you have developed INSPIRE compliant network services for spatial plans, are they available on the INSPIRE Geoportal (as an example)?

According to The Data Specification on Land Use the following is defined/explained (but Member States don’t have to implement Data Specifications, right?):

(pg. 13) „The Planned Land Use or PLU (future planned land use in the above definition), which is composed of spatial plans, defined by spatial planning authorities, depicting the possible utilization of the land in the future. The corresponding application schema contains either a vector data or a raster data.“
(pg. 16) „Although the original planned Land Use documents are legally binding the derived INSPIRE dataset is not.“
(pg. 52, 53) „The scanned version of any maps included in spatial planning documents may also be associated to the spatial plan («dataType» DocumentCitation). The objective for the provision of scanned map is two fold:
• allow the provision of the scanned version of the official spatial plan together with the vector SpatialPlan because only the paper based version is the official one in many member states,
• allow the provision of spatial plans in digital form where no vector data exists. The attribute planDocument of the feature type OfficialDocumentation must be used to provide scanned version of a spatial plan either as text, image or georeferenced image. The MIME extension should be used to inform on its format.“
(pg. 57) „Spatial plans are legal documents that regulate what developments are allowed, allowed under certain circumstances and not allowed in an area. The various parts of the plan use the OfficialDocumentation object to make references to the legal text or a specific location in the legal document or even to other documents such as scanned versions of the plan. Furthermore, Spatial Plans can be provided as scanned documents or structural drawing that are not always geo-referencable maps (See Figure 30 as an example).“
(pg. 156) Features „In most of the European countries old plans are not always converted into polygon features. These plans are however (or most of them) required as a geo-referenced raster image.“
Portrayal „A non geo-referenced legend file (tiff or pdf) must be exchanged for each plan, which enumerates all the used symbols on the plan and their title. For getting more detailed information on the meaning of the symbol set the textual part itself has to be consulted.“