Update: This joint workshop has passed.  you can find the presentations linked below.

Date: 8th and 9th February

Location: Leuven, Belgium

National Mapping and Cadastral Agencies (NMCAs) have an important role, providing geospatial data that are the backbone of social, economic and environmental services of the countries and territories they serve. All geospatial agencies are facing increasing challenges: limited resources, financial constraints, rapid technological advancements and legislative/national obligations, and competition from challengers from alternative providers of tools and services.

For EU NMCAs’ players, the European Commission implementing regulation 2023/138 laying down a list of specific high-value datasets and the arrangements for their publication and re-use published (1) in January 2023, has officially ratified the fact that NMCAs are enforced to provide geospatial data as open data no later than June 2026 (June 2024 officially but with an extra two years possible reprieve). This is at a cost to the National Government. “Open Data is here to stay, more than ever but not without sustainable (co)fundings” was one the main shared observations from the survey and the workshop on Sustainable Open Data Business Models for NMCAs led jointly by EuroSDR and EuroGeographics in 2021. One of the three further actions identified was to take a step back by studying NMCAs business models in general (cf. report (2) by Frédéric Cantat, Joep Crompvoets, Carol Agius and Angela Baker – EuroSDR’s Official publication – 2022).