To get the OGC-E meeting off to a common viewpoint, I have been collecting a set of briefing papers. We would hope that most people to be present will be familiar with most of them already. They cover the same ground, so anyone who has read half of them will probably not learn anything new reading the rest.
GI-POLICY study final report on issues relating to data policy
specific to Geographic Information, Meixner & Frank (DG
XIII/E June 1997)
ftp://ftp.echo.lu/pub/gi/gi-poli.zip
(zipped MS word95 document in English)
http://www2.echo.lu/gi/en/docarchive/gi-policy.html
(abstract in HTML not yet available in English)
http://www2.echo.lu/gi/de/docarchive/gi-policy.html
(abstract in HTML is available in German)
Peter Burrough's readable review of Interoperability and
Spatial Data Infrastructures in Europe (Oct.1997)
http://www.frw.ruu.nl/eurogi/forum/parma.html
GI2000 Geographic Information for Europe homepage
http://www2.echo.lu/gi/en/intro/gihome.html
3rd EC-GIS Workshop (June 1997)
http://ams.emap.sai.jrc.it/dg3gis/abstract97.htm
A STRATEGIC VIEW OF GIS RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT
FOR EUROPE Report of the expert panel convened at JRC Ispra
(Nov.1996)
http://ams.emap.sai.jrc.it/dg3gis/
The market share diagram is missing from the website
document, but email
me for a copy (it shows European suppliers have 20% of the
800Mecu European GIS market and 5% of the 3.1Gecu world GIS
market).
Towards a European Policy Framework for Geographic Information
(Nov.1996)
http://www2.echo.lu/gi/gi2000/en/gi2000dd.html
EUROGI Forum: Documents collection: the European GI
infrastructure
http://www.frw.ruu.nl/eurogi/forum.html
http://www.frw.ruu.nl/eurogi/
(Home Page)
EUROGI European Standardization Strategies for GIS (1996)
http://www2.echo.lu/oii/en/eurogi.html
EUROGI: THE SECOND "GEODATA FOR ALL IN EUROPE"
WORKSHOP
http://www.frw.ruu.nl/eurogi/forum/wsrep.html
TOWARDS A EUROPEAN POLICY OF GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION (Nov.1995)
http://www.frw.ruu.nl/eurogi/forum/cnige.html
Towards a European Geographic Information Infrastructure
(EGII) (Dec.1995)
http://www2.echo.lu/gi/gi2000/en/egii/index.html
EUROGI papers on Legal ownership of Geo Data
http://www.frw.ruu.nl/eurogi/forum/legal.html
GI2000 Document Archive
http://www2.echo.lu/gi/en/docarchive/ref_doc.html
This scenarios paper (US/Euro/GIS) gives some startling
alternatives and should be required reading...
http://www2.nas.edu/besr/223a.html
it was discussed with a USA perspective in this workshop:
http://www2.nas.edu/besr/22d6.html
"GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:THE EUROPEAN DIMENSION"
Position Statement from the European Science Foundation's GISDATA
Scientific Programme (Nov.1996)
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/D-H/gis/policy.html
GISDATA Final Conference - all papers (September 1997)
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/D-H/gis/confprog.html
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/D-H/gis/overview.html
with links.
"European GIS industry has lost 5% of market share in its home market, which grew by 18%. [from GIPSIE proposal]"
These are based on Datquest 1995 and 1996 figures, and the GIPSIE proposal is not publicly available. Perhaps one thing OGC-E should do is to (a) post bits of the GIPSIE proposal on the web (b) calculate an update using 1996/7 figures ?
The European Commission is obliged to treat european offices of non- european companies as "european companies" for the purposes of official statistics. So it is easy to get completely the wrong impression. This is entirely valid for "GIS services", since services would be provided entirely within europe; but it is misleading for software design, maintenance and strategic direction.
There's nothing much recent on the WWW that I can find for market statistics. Only the same data from 1995..
This paper gives the US/Europe status as of June 1995 (is
posted 3 times), but it does not quote exactly the same figures
as GIPSIE proposal says:
http://www2.echo.lu/imo/en/9502fnl.html
http://www2.echo.lu/impact/imo/9502fnl.html
http://geo.cslm.hu/geoinfo/virtlib/giseuro.html
GI2000 document change summary - January 1998. Changes to
GI2000 between the Nov. 1996 discussion document and the draft
GI2000 Communication document, as of end January 1998. *NEW*
http://www2.echo.lu/gi/en/docarchive/gi2changes.html
(not yet available)
GI2000 has a GI & GIS Marketplace Update page, but it is
"under construction" today:
http://www2.echo.lu/gi/en/intro/gimarket.html
(not yet available)
Philip
Sargent
JRC
21020 Ispra (VA)
Italia
2 February 1998