INSPIRE Update – Documents approved, Forum up and running

Date: 2/2/2010

Source: inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

Several updates have recently been announced on the INSPIRE Website.

INfrastructure for SPatial InfoRmation in the European community (INSPIRE), is an EC Directive concerning the sharing and harmonisation of spatial datasets across Europe. INSPIRE has considerable implications for the Highways Agency and other UK road administrations, because such organisations will be required to create standardised metadata (descriptions of the spatial data), as well as having to provide access to data that has been collected or created in standard form.

• 14/12/2009 - INSPIRE Implementing Rules on interoperability of spatial data sets and services have been approved by the INSPIRE Committee
• 14/12/2009 - Amendment of the INSPIRE Network Services Regulation for Download and Transformation approved by the INSPIRE Committee
• 03/12/2009 - The INSPIRE Forum, inspire-forum.jrc.ec.europa.eu, is now officially up and running. It aims to be: an open space for the exchange of information relating to INSPIRE; a meeting place to get to know professionals working in different areas; a learning space where tutorials, workshops and presentations can be downloaded.

For further information see inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ and www.itsradarinternational.info/.

ITS Radar International will continue to monitor developments in INSPIRE

Keywords: Geographic information, Standard