1. Geographical Information Systems for Statistics Luxembourg 3 - 4 March 2008
project
03-March 2008

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. Findings - Users of GI Active users of digital maps 03-March 2008

6. Findings - products
03-March 2008

7. Findings - Typical range of scale / coverage
03-March 2008

8. Findings - Update frequency & usage
03-March 2008

9. 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

10. 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

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

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

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

14. 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

15. Access Point & Resources
installation at developer’s (ConTerra) premises
Some lists of public WMS resources:
WMS integration demonstration
Background map: ...
GISCO NUTS: local;
Weather:
03-March 2008

16. 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

17. Sneak Preview
03-March 2008