WaterInformationsSystem Sweden WISS

Niklas Holmgren, CoordinatorSwedish National Water Authority – South Baltic district

A database without data…

WISS

SGU

SMHIWaterbodies

IVLSGUNat. Fisheries SMHISLU

National datahosts for the EPA (monitoring)

Municipalities

Counties

Polluters

Monitoring

WaterInformationSystem Sweden

• One year old

• Parents – the five New Water Authorities

• Contains >15 000 waterbodies and > 17 000 monitoring stations

• Real time classification

• Open through the internet

• Reports to WISE

”COPY and PASTE” database

Example – export of XML file to WISE WFD Article 8 report

Metadata with links

Weblink

Weblink

Weblink

Weblink

Example – links from WISS to monitoring data in different databases

Datawarehouse

Search

Search

Search

Search

Example – four different web map services in one GIS application

Lessons learned

• Standardisation essential

• Long time structure

• Quality stamps of monitoring data

• Users involved in a council

• Webservices is the final goal, but…

Thanks for your attention!

www.viss.lst.se

www.gis.lst.se/vattenkartanniklas.holmgren@h.lst.se