ELF geo-tools

Tools are required to harmonize the authoritative reference geo-information supplied by the NMCAs and integrate into it the required ELF geometric and semantic information, such that the national base data will be transformed to provide a coherent set of ELF platform reference datasets. As such the basis for the use of the tools will be the general guidelines and rules defined within the INSPIRE service architecture.

The following table lists the available ELF geo-tools.

Title	Tool type	Description
IGN France Change Detection Tool	Change Detection	The change detection tool will compute the differences between 2 releases of the same vector database: based on geometric, topological, semantic algorithms, the calculating process aims at determining which objects are new, deleted, split or merged, modified (geometric and semantic modification).
ArcGIS Edge Match tool	Edge Matching	ESRI will provide an Edge matching tool, by tailoring of Commercial Off-The-Shelf software (COTS). ArcGIS contains a toolset with tools targeted at edge-matching workflows. Initial matching algorithms keep being improved.
1Integrate	Edge Matching	1Spatial has delivered an edge-matching solution based on 1Integrate. 1Integrate is 1Spatial’s product for automatically updating and reengineering data for the update of existing products or creation of new products.
Generalisation Tool VarioScale	Generalization	Cartographic Generalisation Tool by TU Delft
Gen.tool KADNL & Esri	Generalization	Tool and Procedure for generalisation from Master 1 to 2 based on ArcGIS Modelbuilder from Esri. Partly open source.
1Generalise	Generalization	Generalisation tool of 1Spatial
IGN France Generalisation tool	Generalization	Generalize ELF Regional data (medium scale) in order to produce ELF Global data (small scale). All themes and feature classes of the ELF Global level should be processed with this tool.
Table Join Service	Other	Linking administrative / statistical data to location based data.
OSKARI	Platform	Platform of browser-based tools to serve, access and re-use geo-information from different sources
Geo Product Finder	Portal	The tool is a user friendly interface to find, view, compare and access the geo-information. The Geo Product Finder (GPF) will allow end users to find and access services directly. However it can also be a useful tool for application providers and public bodies.
PP Repair	Quality assurance	The ELF Quality Assurance will provide tools that provide the data producers and users with the quality information they need. The output will be quality reports that contain different quality measures depending on the use case described.
ArcGIS Data Reviewer	Quality assurance	The ELF Quality Assurance will provide tools that provide the data producers and users with the quality information they need. The output will be quality reports that contain different quality measures depending on the use case described.
1Validate	Quality assurance	The ELF Quality Assurance will provide tools that provide the data producers and users with the quality information they need. The output will be quality reports that contain different quality measures depending on the use case described.
ELF service validator	Quality assurance	The ELF service validator provides tests for INSPIRE view and download services. It is based on the ETF tool, an open source test framework for testing web services and XML documents.
HALE	Transformation	The transformation tools will harmonise/transform existing geographical datasets from the participating NMCAs to the ELF data specifications. Additionally, the transformation tools will be used to load the transformed ELF data into the centralised data repository on top of which the ELF data services will be implemented.
GO Publisher	Transformation	The transformation tools will harmonise/transform existing geographical datasets from the participating NMCAs to the ELF data specifications. Additionally, the transformation tools will be used to load the transformed ELF data into the centralised data repository on top of which the ELF data services will be implemented.
SLD Editor	Visualization	SLD editor is a web based visualization tool for WP3 OGC WMS services. The tool allows creating visualzations according to national preferences and for domain needs based on SLD templates. The tool conforms to OGC SLD specification version 1.1.0. Published under a dual license: EUPL (https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/software/page/eupl) or MIT (https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).
Scalemaster	Visualization	Designing content of tiling schemas levels