The Principles of INSPIRE,more than just an EU stick!

Eddie CurtisSnowflake Software

or:How I learned to stop worrying and love the INSPIRE

directive

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/

The Big Stick

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1326739/

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Discovery & View Services Operational

Metadata Available Annex I data

available via Download Services

The Visionaries

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021884/

http://data.gov.uk/

The Air We Breathe

CAFE (Clean Air For Europe) Directive

• Reporting of Air Quality Monitoring Data

• - via INSPIRE Download and View Services

• Piloted in 2009/2010• - using the same methods as

INSPIRE Annex 1 testing

Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines

• AIM (Aeronautical Information Management) Programme

• Maintaining safety with increasing air traffic• Increasing efficiency for air traffic control• Exchanging data with open standards– XML– GML–WFS– SOAP

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059797/

The Dutch• ~10 million people living below sea

level• Infrastructure is critical - especially

water infrastructure!• Spatial Data Infrastructure is taken

very seriously• Geonovum coordinates National SDI

investment• See Ron Bloksma’s paper from last year– http://www.agi.org.uk/storage/events/

AGI2009Papers/RonBloksma.pdf

The Light Bulb Moment

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107048/

The Bleak Midwinter

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113403/

Met Office OpenRoad • Open standards web services• Repeated in many products• Publishing data is routine

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/roads/winter.html

http://www.snowflakesoftware.com/news/casestudies/MetOffice.pdf

The Carrot

• INSPIRE requires a set of technologies and skills

• Those skills can be re-used to solve other problems

• The INSPIRE standards can be extended and re-applied

• INSPIRE can be used as a roadmap to developing a data publishing capability

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0312004/

The Happy Ending• Accept data exchange as part of your day to day work.• Let INSPIRE provide you with tools and skills.• Reap the benefits of better decision making.

The End

Eddie.Curtis@snowflakesoftware.com

www.snowflakesoftware.com