INSPIRE Network Services Management of environmental data and information Ilkka Rinne / Spatineo Oy 28th September 2017

About Me Ilkka Rinne, Founder and Head of Customer Experience & Interoperability at Spatineo Oy Active member in EU INSPIRE implementation expert groups, contracted work to the European Commission. Chair of Quality of Service Experience Domain Working Group of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). Spatineo is a Finnish company offering cloud-based tools for usage and Quality of Service analytics for Spatial Web Services

Up-to-date spatial information available online to anywhere A European dream called INSPIRE Up-to-date spatial information available online to anywhere at any time Spatial data collected by tax-payers’ money to made for everyone to use across state borders

Discovery Service Related: INSPIRE Metadata Technical Guidance: https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/id/document/tg/metadata-iso19139

View Service

Download Service

https://inspire. ec. europa https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/documents/technical-guidance-implementation-inspire-discovery-services-0

https://inspire. ec. europa https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/documents/technical-guidance-implementation-inspire-view-services-1

Technical Standards for Download Service Several implementation options: Hierarchical Atom feeds + OpenSearch functionality typically referencing static GML files OGC Web Feature Service (WFS) 2.0 with either predefined (limited) or free query options OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) 2.0, typically for large raster data OGC Sensor Observation Service (SOS) 2.0, typically for sensor-originated (time series) data Additional INSPIRE requirements Multi-language support Embedding and/or linking to service and dataset metadata https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/documents/technical-guidance-implementation-inspire-download-services https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/id/document/tg/download-wcs https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/id/document/tg/download-sos

Implementation Roadmap

Implementation Roadmap All data available as harmonized! Deadlines from different INSPIRE regulations (EU legislation) and scope (data themes) Legend: https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/road-map-graphic/32443

Status in 2017 Quite many INSPIRE datasets and services available, but the implementation stage varies a lot from country to country. Number of registered service in the INSPIRE Geoportal: Type Sept 2015 Apr 2016 Sept 2017 Discovery ~170 509 314 View ~19100 19990 31282 Download ~9700 24173 21715

INSPIRE is Partly Impractical The INSPIRE Directive and technical guidance guidance was initially written with too little implementation experience: Directive text and Guidance requirements are sometimes difficult to interpret and costly to implement (uncommon technical requirements) But it has worked (relatively) well: Legislative push was necessary for the implementation Spatial Data Infrastructure and harmonize common data models in EU. Open Data and services now widely seen as a possibility, looking beyond INSPIRE. INSPIRE technical guidance is being fixed and extended were deemed necessary (INSPIRE Maintenance & Implementation Group, MIG)

https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/inspire-maintenance-and-implementation/46

How to Find Services? INSPIRE Geoportal Spatineo Directory The official search engine for INSPIRE services & datasets. Data harvested from the national INSPIRE Discovery Services only. http://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/discovery/ Spatineo Directory A free search engine for INSPIRE & non-INSPIRE services actively updated and maintained by Spatineo. Active discovery using many public data bases and discovery services Includes basic availability (reliability) data for each service http://directory.spatineo.com/

Which Countries Do Well?

Guidance in Finnish JHS 180: Paikkatiedon sisältöpalvelut Liite 1: Karttakuvapalvelu (WMS View Service) Liite 2: Paikkatiedon kyselypalvelu (WFS Download Service) Liite 3: Paikkatiedon tiedostopalvelu (Atom & OpenSearch file Download Service) Liite 4: Palvelun laatu (Quality on Service: capacity, performance, availability) http://jhs-suositukset.fi/web/guest/jhs/recommendations/180 A nice collection of links to standards and recommendations at National Land Survey site: http://www.maanmittauslaitos.fi/kartat-ja-paikkatieto/paikkatietojen- yhteiskaytto/ohjaava-toiminta/standardit-ja-suositukset

INSPIRE Challenges Modern spatial data technologies and platforms: Can INSPIRE adapt to RESTful services, Linked Data, Internet of Things (ultralight, embedded services) etc.? Software developers like working with JSON and simple data structures much more than with complex XML: Can INSPIRE adapt to simple feature data models and JSON? Already work in progress at OGC, but changing standards is (intentionally) slow. Can data providers keep up with adapting INSPIRE technical guidance? Questionable interoperability if some will use older and some newer technologies. Are INSPIRE services reliable and fast enough to build commercial applications on top of them? Can/should the public authorities offer service level agreements (SLAs) for the users of their services? Who should pay for providing the service level?

Homework Assignment 2 Which OGC Standards relate to the implementation of INSPIRE Discovery Services, View Services, and Download Services? Which functionalities and features INSPIRE requires in addition to the OGC specifications of these standards?