Johnny Welle, Director-General, Norwegian Mapping Authority
It is a continuous evolution. Digital data has increasingly become the basis on which governments, organizations and businesses base their decisions. With this, the role of the mapping agency is transforming from producer to provider of digital platform. Technology advancements have the greatest disruptive impact over the short to medium-term. Norway has a good environment for sharing geodata. For last 30 years, we have been working with municipalities and national agencies across the government to build a National Spatial Data Infrastructure a platform for data sharing based on a collaboration called ‘Norway Digital’. The structure of this platform is spatial in its setting, containing geodetic reference frame, hydrographic data, land mapping and cadaster in a common infrastructure. We are trying to work out how to secure access to authoritative data in this platform, which is changing quite dramatically. We are pl