Affiliations: [a] Regions and Environment Department, Statistics Sweden, Örebro, Sweden | [b] Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG), Frankfurt, Germany | [c] European Commission, Eurostat
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Corresponding author: Marie Haldorson, Regions and Environment Department, Statistics Sweden, S-701 89 Örebro, Sweden. Tel.: +46 703376074; E-mail:marie.haldorson@scb.se
Abstract: The United Nations initiative on Global Geospatial Information Management
(UN-GGIM) aims at playing a leading role in setting the agenda for the
development of global geospatial information and to promote its use to
address key global challenges like the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The
regional committee UN-GGIM: Europe was established in October 2014 and by October 2015, at
its second plenary meeting, recommendations were adopted on better
integration of geospatial and statistical information in order to foster
further usage. The recommendations can be found in a report titled
``Definition of the priority user needs for combinations of data''. This
article reflects the main content of the report: identifying relevant
policies, collecting use cases, describing and responding to user needs and
finally making recommendations on how to improve the integration of
statistical and geospatial information. The most strategic recommendation is
that Europe should aim for a European Spatial Data Strategy. Other
recommendations deal with priority data for a Statistical Geospatial
Framework and support the improvement of workflows with geospatial
technology.
Keywords: UN-GGIM, integration, geospatial statistics, spatial data strategies, evidence based policies, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), European strategies, statistical geospatial framework, point based model, geo-referencing
