Morten Lind
Senior Advisor
Danish Ministry for Housing, Urban and Rural Affairs
Denmark

Biography
Morten Lind is Business Manager in the Danish Address Program, which is a sub-program of the Danish Government’s Basic Data Program. He has a graduate from the Royal Academy of Architecture in Copenhagen. In 1993 he started in the area of geo-information and property data in the Danish Survey and Cadaster. Since then he has been managing projects related to real world addressing and address data; from data management to dissemination and utilization of address data in a wide range of applications. He has contributed to the INSPIRE TWG for addresses and to the ISO 19160 work on address standards.

Abstract
Addresses, Administrative Units and Place Names - Integration of Three INSPIRE Themes for E-Government and Private Sector Benefits

Co-Authors:
Rune Lyngbo Kristensen, Project Manager, Danish Geodata Agency
Jens Bo Rykov, Cartographer, Danish Geodata Agency

This paper will present the impact of the Danish Government's decision to harmonize and improve three INSPIRE data themes as a common foundation for e-government, innovation, efficiency and reduced costs in private sector. The three themes are addresses, administrative units and place names, which have all been acknowledged as being spatial reference data, covered by the Inspire directive's annex I. In the government's decision, the three data themes are linked together in the so-called “Address Program", a cross-ministry initiative that is a part of the Danish “Basic Data Program". We will demonstrate how the data model for the data sets implements the Inspire guidelines of data harmonization, and we will show how the three data themes can work together in a number of different applications e.g. to calculate the authentic relationship between each address and the different administrative subdivisions of Denmark. The program will finalize in 2016. We can however already recognize positive impacts. In addition, a recent study has confirmed significant long-term socio economic benefits. We will describe how collaboration with the stakeholders has helped to ensure, that the design of data sets and services meets user's requirements. Both public sector bodies, emergency and location service providers like Here, TomTom, Google and Bing has been involved, and are already benefiting from the improvements. Among the improvements is additional administrative units types, place names dedicated for location services, plus a significant better address-coverage for e.g. hospitals, where SatNav systems often have problems of locating the right spot. Finally, we will show improvements in data dissemination, where data and services is provided as open data without licence restrictions, using the new public “Data Distributor" system. As a practical result from 2014, we will demonstrate improved timeliness of data, with a timespan of only few seconds from recording a new address in the address register until it is available in our services, which are open for all application developers.