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Mike Clark Environment Agency for England & Wales St Petersburg 26th May 2004

Mike Clark Environment Agency for England & Wales St Petersburg 26th May 2004. What is a Spatial Data Infrastructure ?. All the materials, technologies, and people necessary to acquire, process, store and distribute geographic information to meet a variety of needs. EUROGI. Environments.

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Mike Clark Environment Agency for England & Wales St Petersburg 26th May 2004

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  1. Mike ClarkEnvironment Agency for England & WalesSt Petersburg 26th May 2004

  2. What is a Spatial Data Infrastructure ? All the materials, technologies, and people necessary to acquire, process, store and distribute geographic information to meet a variety of needs. EUROGI

  3. Environments do not respect political boundaries

  4. Difficulties in the Past • Incompatible and fragmented information • Lack of use of standards • Lack of data • Lack of cross-border co-ordination • Lack of co-operation within governments • Data policy restrictions

  5. The Good News • All the ingredients for success are present • The technology is there • The expertise has been brought together • The political will is building • The opportunity to make it happen for real this time is NOW ! (cue: hooray)

  6. The INSPIRE Objective The preparation of a framework legislative act aimed at making available relevant, harmonised and quality geographic information for the purpose of the formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Community environmental policy-making

  7. INSPIRE Principles (1) • Data should be collected once and maintained at a level where this can be done most efficiently • It should be possible to combine spatial information from different sources across Europe in a seamless way, and to share it amongst many users and applications • It should be possible for information collected at one level to be shared with other levels

  8. INSPIRE Principles (2) • Geographic information needed for good governance at all levels should be readily available • It should be simple to discover which geographic information is available and under what conditions it can be acquired and used • Geographic data should be easy to understand and interpret, i.e. user-friendly

  9. The Model

  10. Policy Issues • Access to Information • Charging & Licensing Mechanisms • Quality & Standards • Harmonisation • Awareness & Usability • Compliance • Funding

  11. Legal Issues • Intellectual Property Rights • Data Protection & Privacy • Freedom of Information • Human Rights • Competition • Liability & Fitness for Purpose • Ratification of Aarhus

  12. Who Pays ?(somebody has to) • Taxpayers • EC • National governments • Users • Marginal cost • Cost recovery • Market pricing

  13. What Will We Gain ? • A coherent European Spatial Data Infrastructure • Consistent Europe-wide reference and thematic data • Dependable data quality • Direct and free access to metadata • Uniform geographic reference data • Rights of access to thematic data • Efficient data and information delivery • Harmonised use across public and private sectors • Data legitimacy • An unambiguous policy and legal framework

  14. A Stepwise Approach • Standardisation • Harmonisation • Integration

  15. GI-NIUS 99% PERSPIRE 1% INSPIRE Thank you for listening

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