Geographical Information Systems for Statistics Luxembourg 3 - 4 March 2008 INSPIRE@EC project 03-March 2008 INSPIRE@EC

2nd INSPIRE prototype study INSPIRE@EC Financed by Eurostat Focus on preparation of internal EC INSPIRE compliance Performed by a consortium of: Conterra GmbH (lead) ITC Enschede (subcontractor) 03-March 2008 INSPIRE@EC

INSPIRE@EC Objectives to analyse the state of the play concerning GI and SDI components within the Commission services, to test and demonstrate the feasibility of interoperability based solutions for sharing geographical information and services within the Commission’s distributed environment, to develop a migration path for existing Commission GI services towards INSPIRE compliance, taking into account the organisational framework. 03-March 2008 INSPIRE@EC

Scope of the analysis Relevancy of spatial knowledge for Policies and Services of the Commission Key information flows from and to the Commission GISCO as central access point for reference data sets COGI as inter-service platform for GI related topics within EC 03-March 2008 INSPIRE@EC

Findings - Users of GI Active users of digital maps 03-March 2008 INSPIRE@EC

Findings - products 03-March 2008 INSPIRE@EC

Findings - Typical range of scale / coverage 03-March 2008 INSPIRE@EC

Findings - Update frequency & usage 03-March 2008 INSPIRE@EC

Fundamental Functional Requirements Sharing of GISCO data (raster, vector) Integration of external network services (JRC, EEA) OGC interfaces: CSW (ISO AP), WMS-SLD, WFS, WCS Security management Monitoring of system and service availability Metadata management Public access node (EC GI & GIS Portal) 03-March 2008 INSPIRE@EC

Technical Architecture of the Prototype Based on the most recent draft Implementation Rules (IR) Data management tier of the Commission‘s Enterprise GIS 03-March 2008 INSPIRE@EC

Implementation: FOSS and proprietarily licensed „off-the-shelf“ Software Right mixture is the key! 03-March 2008 INSPIRE@EC

Next steps Internal functional tests after Easter Acceptance tests with a wider public Accompanied by user survey 03-March 2008 INSPIRE@EC

INSPIRE@EC Prototype Modules MapViewer and MetadataCatalog - central application modules AccessManager and ServiceMonitor - system administrator’s tools 03-March 2008 INSPIRE@EC

INSPIRE@EC Prototype Capabilities (selected) MapViewer Composite maps built from layers provided by different WMS sources Standard map client features (zoom, pan, query, ...) Formating of layers by SLD (Styled Layer Descriptors, extension of WMS) 03-March 2008 INSPIRE@EC

Access Point & Resources INSPIRE@EC installation at developer’s (ConTerra) premises http://gdi-de.sdisuite.de/inspire-accessNode Some lists of public WMS resources: http://wms-sites.com/ http://www.ogc-services.net http://www.skylab-mobilesystems.com/en/wms_serverlist.html http://exploreourpla.net/gis/wms-servers/ WMS integration demonstration Background map: ... GISCO NUTS: local; Weather: http://geo.compusult.net/scripts/mapman.dll?Name=weather 03-March 2008 INSPIRE@EC

INSPIRE@EC Prototype Capabilities (selected) MetadataCatalog Gathering (manual input, import of ISO 19115/9, extraction from WMS, CS-W) Discovery (local search, distributed search of CS-W sources) Preview in MapViewer Dissemination 03-March 2008 INSPIRE@EC

Sneak Preview 03-March 2008 INSPIRE@EC