INSPIRE Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe

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INSPIRE Infrastructure for Spatial Information
in Europe

• Nick Land
• EuroGeographics

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Presentation

• INSPIRE
• Vision scope
• Policy measures
• Timetable
• What does it mean for us

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INSPIRE

• Legislative framework for an Infrastructure for
  Spatial Information in Europe
• DG Environment, Eurostat and JRC
• Focus on Environment formulation,
  implementation, monitoring of policy at the
  Community level .. promoting sustainable
  development
• PSI, 6th Environmental Action Programme
  (environmental reporting), Access to
  environmental information

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Obstacles Policy measures

• Gaps in data
• Lack of documentation
• Incompatible datasets
• Lack of harmonised services
• Restrictive data policies
• Poor coordination

• List of essential pan-European datasets
• Datasets documented to agreed metadata standards
• Data available to agreed specifications
• Establish services for viewing, accessing data
• Licensing framework
• Coordination structure

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INSPIRE vision
DB C
Owndata
INSPIRE Data
DB B
Euro Metadata
DB A
EuroSpec
Pricing Licensing policy
ISO
Legal Framework
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INSPIRE data themes

• Geographical location
• Administrative units
• Properties, buildings addresses
• Elevation
• Geophysical environment
• Land Surface
• Transport
• Utilities facilities
• Society Population

• Area regulation
• Air Climate
• Hydrography
• Oceans seas
• Biota/biodiversity
• Natural resources
• Risks
• Areas under anthropogenic stress

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INSPIRE Timetable

• Started end 2001
• Position papers delivered October 02
• May 03 Public consultation
• July 03 Consultation within Commission
• October 03 Commission proposal
• 2006/7 Adoption of framework legislation by
  Council and Parliament
• 2006/7 Implementation

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Pre-implementation phase

• Metadata profile
• Specifications for INSPIRE datasets
• Prototyping a geo-portal
• Development of technical guidelines (cookbook)
• Interoperability demonstrator

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Metadata

• Specification ISO profile
• Conversion of data maintenance
• Linking individual metadata services (nodes)
  within a decentralised framework
• Timing
• Discovery level services by 2008/9
• More detailed information by 2011/12

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Datasets
Højer
DENMARK
Møgeltønder
Tønder
Aventoft
GERMANY
Süderlügum
Neukirchen
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Existing projects
RGE

• Ortho
• Addr
• Road
• Topo
• Adm
• Elev
• Cad

3 As
3OSs
E.G.M.
E.R.M.
EuroRoadS
GiMoDig
SABE
EuroDEM
EULIS
11M 250k 100k
10k (scale)
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 full  interoperability
RGE

• Ortho
• Addr
• Road
• Topo
• Adm
• Elev
• Cad

3 As
3OSs
E.G.M.
E.R.M.
EuroRoadS
GiMoDig
SABE
EuroDEM
EULIS
11M 250k 100k
10k (scale)
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Datasets

• Agree the European specifications
• Semantic definitions
• Unique identifiers
• Minimum acceptable quality levels
• Ensure national databases can be translated to
  European specifications
• Potentially large re-engineering task
• Additional data capture in the future
• More joined up approach at national borders
• Timing 2015 at the latest

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Licensing framework

• Increasing focus on licensing, rather than
  pricing
• Pricing consistent with national policies (and
  principles of subsidiarity) no impact on
  current business models?
• INSPIRE proposes
• metadata should be free of charge
• possible to view all data free of charge
• some datasets should be free of charge e.g
  Administrative boundaries
• INSPIRE focuses on public sector data

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Diversity of pricing licensing policies
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Licensing framework

• Start by understanding the differences
• Develop common terminology and templates
• Adopt common standards?
• Transparency publish on internet and
  consistency
• Compliant with the relevant laws e.g competition
  law, data protection

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Organisation Coordination
ESDI Committee
Network
NSDI (focal points)
Geospatial Interest Groups
Permanent Operational Body
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Financial impact

• Currently assessing the incremental costs of
  implementing INSPIRE
• Comparison with other programmes
• Galileo 3.4 billion euro programme
• GMES 350 million euros

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Summary
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For further information
www.ec-gis.org/inspire
www.eurogeographics.org
nick.land_at_eurogeographics.org