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Europa: INSPIRE
European Union Directive 2007/2 INSPIRE (Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe) aims to create a spatial information infrastructure in Europe.
This initiative emerges with the idea of overcoming significant difficulties that still exist with existing sources of spatial information that do not permit effective formulation, implantation and monitoring of territorial community policies. INSPIRE aims to improve the quality, assure maintenance of the geographic information and make it accessible for everyone.
The problems that INSPIRE tries to get through and reflects in its principles are:
- Poor use of standards:
- Incompatible information.
- Data is often of poor quality.
- Incompatible information systems or not accessible to the public.
- Different representation systems.
- Fragmentation of the information.
- Superimposing or coincidences.
- Lack of coord:
- Within the same organisations.
- Between levels of government that are the main data providers.
- Lack of data:
- Lack of data.
- Data policy restrictions (prices, copyright, access rights, license policies).
To facilitate the harmonization process, there are defined the issues that are classified in annexes.
INSPIREinitiative means a great challenge to all involved agents, including SITNA
INSPIRE initiative means a great challenge to all involved agents, including SITNA.