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

2. 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

3. 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

11. Discovery Service
Related: INSPIRE Metadata Technical Guidance:

13. View Service

15. Download Service

19. https://inspire. ec. europa

20. https://inspire. ec. europa

21. 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

22. Implementation Roadmap

23. Implementation Roadmap
All data available
as harmonized!
Deadlines from
different INSPIRE
regulations (EU legislation) and scope (data themes)
Legend:

24. 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

25. 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)

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

27. 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.
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

28. Which Countries Do Well?

29. 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)
A nice collection of links to standards and recommendations at National Land Survey site:
yhteiskaytto/ohjaava-toiminta/standardit-ja-suositukset

30. 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?

31. 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?