Welcome to the DNF News Archive. This section contains a selection of news articles related to the Digital National Framework that have previously appeared in the Press.
Almost 100 participants attended the recent Roadshow events held in Cardiff; Manchester; Edinburgh and London which focussed on three key themes - improving service delivery through connected information; achieving business benefits through better quality data and exploring the implications of the INSPIRE directive.
The 2008 DNF Roadshow programme supported by AGI launched with an event at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff on 7th May. The day started with formal presentations on three key themes: INSPIRE, service delivery and quality
Over the two days of the AGI 2007 Conference in Stratford Upon Avon, members of the DNF Expert Group ran an InfoCentre to increase awareness and encourage AGI delegates to adopt DNF principles in their data management.
The Atlantis Initiative, a collaborative project that is working on ways to provide better information to address the impact of climate change and flood risks, is now live on the
Internet.
There were ample opportunities to learn more about DNF at the AGI’06 event at the Business Design Centre from 12th -14th September this year. There was a DNF Forum accessible to all those attending the conference or exhibition, with presentations and demonstrations on DNF and its applications.
DNF started on the road in Cardiff in April and ended in London in June having travelled via York and Edinburgh. This series of AGI-supported Roadshows was a first for DNF and proved to be a success.
Click here to download the 2006 event summary.
On 15th March we exhibited at the EXPO2006 event organised by the Highway Authorities and Utilities Committee (HAUC) at the Barbican Exhibition Centre, London. This event showed how organisations are changing their operations in response to the Traffic Managment Act and how they are working to improve the streets of London. The was a lot of interest in DNF from both transport and utilities visitors.
The DNF Expert Group hosted two very successful system supplier (software vendor) briefing events in London and Reading. Twenty five delegates attended the first event in London, held at the Local Government Conference Centre in Westminster and eighteen delegates attended the briefing held at the Kirtons Hotel in Reading, the following week.
Black & Veatch scored a notable double at the tenth annual Information Management awards (IM2005) by winning the prestigious Premier Project Award and the coveted GIS Project Prize for its outstanding work on the Countryside Agency’s Mapping Access Land Project.
IM2005 recognises excellence and innovation in the management of business information and is a showcase for organisations that have demonstrated the vision and the business skills to implement new technology to reap business benefits.
It was a busy time for some of the DNF Expert Group at the recent AGI2005 event in London’s Chelsea Village conference centre. This annual event draws a large audience visiting the combined conference and exhibition – with many interested in deriving more value from their geographic data holdings and in better levels of data sharing and integration. So, it was an ideal opportunity to create a focal point for DNF.
This article is reproduced with kind permission of Geomatics World magazine.
SeaZone Solutions has announced that it will soon be releasing the most comprehensive digital maps of the UK's territorial waters ever produced. The new hydrospatial product offers mapping at two scales 1:25 000 and 1:250 000 in seamless datasets, making it easier to use in information systems. Available in six cohesive layers (bathymetry and elevation, natural and physical environment, structures and obstructions, conservation and environment, socio-economic and marine use and climate and oceanography) it contains a complete wrecks database.
In a further development it has been revealed that the UK's Digital National Framework (DNF) will be extended offshore, providing a geographic information base interoperable with OS MasterMap for the marine environment and coastal zone.
This article first appeared in the July/August 2005 edition of Civil Engineering Surveyor, the Journal of the Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors. Reproduced with kind permission.
The subject of where our buried services exist is likely to cause a strong response when brought up in conversation. CES has reported on a number of occasions the Geospatial Engineering Board's (GEB) work over the last three years on developing a coordinated approach to the recording of the geospatial data of buried services...
This article first appeared in the July/August 2005 edition of Geomatics World. Reproduced with kind permission.
One of my tasks as a site quantity surveyor working on high pressure gas pipeline construction in the 1960s was to record as-laid information about the main. We measured depth of cover over the pipe, changes of direction in degrees (based on the records of the bending machine operator!), the position of land drains and other services, and took occasional offsets to field boundaries. It wasn’t serious coordinated data and looking back with the comfort of hindsight it was surely inadequate for a high pressure gas main, but it did provide the client with some record of what his contractor had built. How much better are we today..?
This article first appeared in the July/August 2005 edition of GiSProfessional. Reproduced with kind permission.
SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURES have been moving up the agenda for many mapping agencies, GIS suppliers and major data holders (the much vaunted ‘data silo’ owners). The recent FIG conference in Cairo was combined with GSDI-8, the eighth Global Spatial Data Infrastructure event...
Reproduced with kind permission of Surveyor. www.surveyormagazine.com
Confusion reigns supreme over what underground services lie where and who exactly owns what. But this could all be about to change. As the maze beneath our pavements continues to expand, a consortium of industry experts has been exploring how a common information framework could at last unravel what really lies beneath our feet...