Sandra van
Wijngaarden
Program Manager
Geonovum
Netherland

Biography
Sandra van Wijngaarden studied human geography at the University in Utrecht. After working in several IT-functions, she was coordinator of geo information for the Ministery of Agriculture. Since 2008, Sandra works as a programmanager at Genovum, the Dutch national SDI association. First for PDOK (Public Services on the map), 6 years to coordinate the implementation of INSPIRE in The Netherlands and recently as a programmanager for geo-related activities concerning the Environmental Planning Act.

Abstract
Open, Sesame! The Fairy Tale of the Importance of INSPIRE Maps for the Dutch Environmental Planning Act

Co-Author: Marjan Bevelander, Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment

Once upon a time, there were two users of geo-information, a licensing authority of a town called "Hungry Wolf" and a private initiator of the adjacent town "Stock still". The licensing authority was very rich. In his town, he had given a lot of permits to put the most beautiful residential areas down. The whole city shined in splendor. In "Stock still", this was quite different! Oh, how the initiator really would like to start some projects to beautify the physical environment of his town. However, he had no idea how to deal with that. Come to our presentation and find out how this fairy tale ends. Do Hungry Wolf and Little Mouse live happily ever after? It is the story of how INSPIRE maps can empower the new Dutch Environmental Planning Act and the way related information is organised. The Environmental Planning Act is a bill aiming to renew the regulation of human activities with an effect on the physical environment in the Netherlands. It will replace many existing acts of parliament either entirely or partially, and will incorporate the area-based components of eight other acts. This is not only one of the most radical change programs about law in Dutch history, but also the whole system of how to deal with (geographical) information is reorganised in a straightforward way. What lessons can be learnt form the INSPIRE approach? This is a story of the added value of using geospatial infrastructures, but also an interesting view of how the Dutch INSPIRE implementation approach can help to structure and organise the information function, for example by designing a system of integrated datamodels for the themes, using the approach of working sessions to decide what datasets are in which ones are not, and re-using the INSPIRE standards for quality of services as an obliged framework.