Inspire Directive - Solutions for Compliance
The EU INSPIRE Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament seeks to establish an 'Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community' (INSPIRE). The INSPIRE Directive entered into force on the 15th May 2007 and sets out a range of requirements as regards standardisation and publication of geographical datasets and associated datasets descriptions (metadata) across the European Union.
Inspire Information Resource - Dedicated Website
We provide a maintained and regularly updated information resource with access to all key documentation and updates on changes at European Commission and implementation levels. This takes the form of our dedicated INSPIRE.COMPASS.IE website.
Inspire ISO Compliance Portfolio & Toolkit
Compass provide a full service and product suite to ensure compliance by organisations across Europe with the requirements of the EU INSPIRE Directive and broader Spatial Data Infrastructure initiatives. Indeed the portfolio also supports compliance with the EU Re-Use of Public Sector Information Directive.
As part of the Portfolio, the Compass INSPIRE ISO Toolkit is an open source based suite of technology solutions that support tasks from information audits to portal development. For more information please see here.
Inspire Master Classes & Seminars
In order to support clients through the challenging compliance tasks and in sorting out what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, and how, Compass provide Master Classes supported by on-going advisory services. These customisable master classes to deal with your INSPIRE concerns and also those relating to the Re-Use of Public Sector Information Directive. For more information please see here.
Compass INSPIRE Solutions Whitepaper
Please download our services whitepaper by clicking on the logo to the left. This paper describes how the Compass Services can provide a full compliance solution to meet the requirements of the European Union INSPIRE Directive and assist participation of your organisation in your National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) strategy that must support INSPIRE. The services are also applicable for organisations wishing to create individual SDI components for their own use, based on acknowledged ‘best practice’ in creating SDIs, e.g. conducting information audits, creating and published metadata, mounting effective Geoportals.
Why INSPIRE?
For full details see http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/.
The need for the INSPIRE initiative
The general situation on spatial information in Europe is one of fragmentation of datasets and sources, gaps in availability, lack of harmonisation between datasets at different geographical scales and duplication of information collection. These problems make it difficult to identify, access and use data that is available.
Fortunately, awareness is growing at national and at EU level about the need for quality geo-referenced information to support understanding of the complexity and interactions between human activities and environmental pressures and impacts The INSPIRE initiative is therefore timely and relevant but also a major challenge given the general situation outlined above and the many stakeholder interests to be addressed.
INSPIRE is complementary to related policy initiatives, such as the Commission proposal for a Directive on the re-use and commercial exploitation of Public Sector Information.
The INSPIRE Concept
INSPIRE is ambitious. 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. Possible services are the visualisation of information layers, overlay of information from different sources, spatial and temporal analysis, etc.