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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 measures1. Gaps in data

2. Lack of documentation

3. Incompatible datasets

4. Lack of harmonised services

5. Restrictive data policies

6. Poor coordination

1. List of essential pan-European datasets

2. Datasets documented to agreed metadata standards

3. Data available to agreed specifications

4. Establish services for viewing, accessing data

5. Licensing framework

6. Coordination structure

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INSPIRE vision

DB A

DB B

DB C

ISO

EuroSpec Pricing & Licensing policy

EuroMetadata

Users

Legal Framework

INSPIREData

Owndata

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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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DENMARK

GERMANY

Tønder

Süderlügum

Højer

Neukirchen

Aventoft

Møgeltønder

Datasets

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RG

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Existing projects

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Topo

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SABE

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E.R

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EuroRoadS

EuroDEM

EULIS

GiMoDig

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RG

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3 A

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3OS

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« full » interoperability

Ortho

Addr

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SABE

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EuroDEM

EULIS

GiMoDig

EuroRoadS

EuroSpec

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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

Country Single user, internal business use

Belgium One-off license, the next license – 80%

Denmark One-off license, update 15%

France License for 10 years, update 10%

Germany One-off license, update 13%

Ireland Annual license including update

N. Ireland Annual license including update

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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

Geospatial Interest Groups

Permanent Operational Body

NSDI (focal points)

‘Network’

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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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Compliance

Policy

Metadata

Data

Policy

Organisation

Best Practice!

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For further information

www.ec-gis.org/inspire

www.eurogeographics.org

nick.land@eurogeographics.org