inspire - open data manchester - july 2014

Introduction to INSPIRE

29 July 2014

Open Data Manchester

John Gibbons

ICT Services

Content today ..

What is INSPIRE and why we need it

What data has got published

Where the data is and what it looks like

What you can do with it?

• Infrastructure for spatial data in Europe

• Centralised publishing of dataINSPIRE?

• European Union directive

• Target dates from 2013 to 2020Background

• Environmental data

• www.data.gov.uk

What data, and where?

What is INSPIRE?

Large infrastructure projects (HS2?)

• Covers large parts of the country

• Require up-to-date environmental data

• Takes time to request and assemble data

The data holders

• We don’t currently publish

• We don’t standardise data

• Data scattered across different organisations

Why do we need INSPIRE??

Land and property assets

Tree preservation orders

Town Centre Classification

Wildlife corridors

Aircraft zones

Some INSPIRE data categories

• Identify and collect the datasets

• Store data in GIS database

Gather the data

• Create metadata for datasets

• Store metadata on data.gov.uk

Create metadata

• Schedule data harvest

• Inspire compliance

Publish data

How we publish the data

•View data on webData.gov.uk

•WMS and WFS to bring data to desktop

QGIS

Live Demonstration

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illustrate live demo)

The principle

Less work in long run

Publishing methods

Lack of advice

What we think…

Summary

• Inspire is open data, but for a customer

• Uses open standards

• Easy to view maps (WMS)

• Easy to see data (WFS)

• Other formats possible (XML)

Where to start..

• Go to data.gov.uk

• Also try out similar offerings at ONS Geoportal,

Environment Agency and Land Regisistry

• Experiment with what you see

• Observe the licencing (it will change!)

• john.gibbons@salford.gov.uk 0161-793-2054