ESDIN - the geospatial reference data and services for INSPIRE

David Overton – Project Coordinator

EuroGeographics Project Manager

www.esdin.eu

This presentation argues that;

• INSPIRE remains a dream with national INSPIRE compliance alone

• Creating an “E” SDI from an “n”SDI needs standards• The resultant common reference unlocks PSI re-use• ESDIN has provided tools and best practice for you

Content

• Introduction• Overview of the Project

• From requirements gathering• Via proposed processes• To a new architecture

• Demonstration• Conclusions

Introduction

• Collaboration of 20 partners plus non-beneficiaries– Data providers– Developers– Academia– Software companies

• Best Practice– Processes– Services– Specifications

• Meeting INSPIRE obligations & extending specifications for pan-European use

ESDIN outcomes

Key Benefits

• Improve process efficiencies

• Enable interoperability• Support users processes

with consistent, reliable reference data

Important Results• User requirements

• Harmonised data specifications

• Transformation rules & services

• A quality assurance approach

• Generalisation rules and services

• Modular pricing & licensing & Geo Product Finder

• Federations authenticated by Shibboleth

• Tools for testing infrastructure

• Proposals and tools for maintenance

• Solution to technical architecture.

• On-line demonstrator of Download and View services

Understanding the Requirements of Users

• Desk based• Primary research: Design principles• Value propositions;

– Flexibility to pricing and licensing– Harmonization for multinational work– Consistency– Trustworthy data

We already have national INSPIRE serivces, why bother?

Using data that does not join-up

Downstream

Mash-up

Re-Use?

Forget it!

Throughout the workflow...

Schema/CRSTransformation

DataIntegration

& Conflation

EdgeMatching

GeometricGeneralisation

MaintainData

Users

Harmonised Specifications for Data

• A history of Harmonisation

• INSPIRE data specification profiles

• Extended specification• Meet INSPIRE

requirements• Enable

harmonisation

Transformation Rules and Services

• A process that accounts for diversity

• A standardised template• Used with positive results

with 7 NMCAs

A Comprehensive Quality Approach

Generalisation Rules and Services

A Modular approach to Pricing and licensing – The Geo Product Finder

• License and access policy of European NMCAs

• Break-down of license models into modules

• One-stop-shop License wizard prototype: "Geo Product Finder"

Gaining Access to Data

• Single-sign-on solution

• Development with OGC and communicated to INSPIRE.

Testing the Infrastructure

Reusable automated test components for:

• spatial data• network services • data production

processes

Tools are available under the BSD Open Source License.

The management of Maintenance and Update

• Edge-matching rule sets improve cross border quality

• Stable Unique-Identifier logic address INSPIRE requirements

• Incremental change management allows flexibility in life-cycle and update management

Proposed Integrated Architecture

EuroGeographicsArchitecture integrated with INSPIRE conceptual model

What about the future?

An example of viewing and downloading Hydrography

• Looks at Hydrography theme

• INSPIRE compliance• Does a number of

Name searches• Uses E.L.F./INSPIRE

demonstrator to view and download data

• Interoperates data with relevant environmental data.

<<See our video on Hydrography>>

There’s also...

• Software:BSD license• Deliverables• INSPIRE demonstrator• Tools for consistent data• A task force• Rules on quality processes

www.esdin.eu

Mapping / Cadastral agency adopted

• NMCA decided to implement specifications

• Joined the Federation• Used the code; created INSPIRE

services• Adopted the E.L.F. extensions • Quality process • Made their data accessible via the

EuroGeographics architecture• Boosted usage of their data

When a European Agency used data

• Trusted quality data• Used the INSPIRE compliant

services with their partner data• Realised benefits

• Spent less time validating• More time analysing• Boosted their usage

ESDIN becoming real now!

• EuroGeoNames• A test federation of

NMCAs provide an access for INSPIRE data & services

• EuroGlobalMap: creating from mid-scale data holdings

Conclusion –Prospects for the European Location Framework (E.L.F.)

• INSPIRE dream will not be realised, unless;

• ESDIN best practices are adopted for pan-European, Cross border data and services

• An emergent community supports the E.L.F.

www.esdin.eu