Knowledge Exchange Networks

Our Knowledge exchange networks bring together experts from the national mapping and cadastral agencies (NMCAs) to provide forums for the exchange of best practice and to discuss the day-to-day issues facing all NMCAs.

BI KEN: Business interoperability

BI KEN focuses on the business issues NMCAs face. These include the pricing and licencing of products and services and topics such as open data and sustainable business models. Members of the group also exchange knowledge on the geographic information market, product developments, competitors and potential partners.

Cad&LR KEN: Cadastre and land registry

This group develops our cadastre and land registry activities. Key tasks for the group include:

• developing a new vision on cadastres;
• benchmarking and comparison of organisations based upon a common information resource; and
• assessment of the role of the cadastral parcel in INSPIRE and Spatial Data Infrastructures.

Pol KEN: Policy

This group tracks, evaluates and constructively participates in the development of European initiatives, programmes and policies, that relate to the purpose of the association, and the activities of our members.

Q-KEN: Quality

This group looks at data quality and quality management issues and has produced several benchmarking reports on these topics.

INSPIRE KEN

The group follows the development of the INSPIRE directive. It is open for all our members experts interested in sharing their experiences on INSPIRE implementation.