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The European Union INSPIRE Directive and your spatial data

Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament established the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) so that spatial or geographical information from a wide range of sources, from the local level to the global level, can be accessed in an inter-operable way for a variety of uses.

"The initiative intends to trigger the creation of a European spatial information infrastructure that delivers to the users integrated spatial information services. These services should allow the users to identify and access spatial or geographical information from a wide range of sources, from the local level to the global level, in an inter-operable way for a variety of uses. The target users of INSPIRE include policy-makers, planners and managers at European, national and local level and the citizens and their organisations." (INSPIRE)

The Commission decision of 5 June 2009 implements this directive for monitoring and reporting spatial data sets, and these regulations are now adopted.

Each spatial data set your organisation holds is required to have a description attached.

These descriptions are called METADATA and have a specific set of elements and a prescribed format.

Do your spatial data sets comply with these new regulations?

What we can do for you ADVISE on the metadata standards that are appropriate for your geographic data. AUDIT your spatial data to bring it into compliance with the new EU regulations. TRAINING your staff to understand and implement these metadata standards.

 

We are experts in spatial data infrastructures. We are involved with the INSPIRE and Digital National Framework initiatives and have 30 years experience of delivering Geographic Information solutions.