Local authorities in The Netherlands supported by new software tooling in delivering European strategic noise maps

The new reporting mechanism of the European Environmental Agency makes for uniform and standardized data exchange. It is an inevitable move in a world where environmental data needs not only to be available, but also accessible to all people. This change however, asks a lot of competent authorities. All competent authorities must now alter their standard operating procedures when producing strategic noise maps and other reports. The Dutch government wants to support competent authorities in complying with this new reporting mechanism by developing software tooling. The tooling is an extension of an already developed platform that supports the Dutch noise legislation rules. With this specialized tooling, competent authorities can upload a file with their strategic noise map. The tooling takes care of reprojecting to the required coordinate system and the validation of the file to the information model of the new reporting mechanism. It also merges individual strategic noise maps to compose national strategic noise maps. In addition, the tooling takes care of publishing the according INSPIRE compliant services. In this presentation, we will show you how this works, and how it fits in with national and European noise legislation. Finally, future perspectives of this development will be presented.