This document discusses the INSPIRE Directive, which aims to create a European Union spatial data infrastructure. It seeks to harmonize geographic data across borders by establishing common data specifications. The summary discusses how FME software can help organizations collect, harmonize, and share geospatial data to comply with INSPIRE standards by automating workflows for data transformation, quality checks, and publishing services. FME offers a no-code solution to help manage complex INSPIRE data mapping and prepare data to be discoverable and usable across Europe.

1. Harmonisation of geodata
within the framework of
INSPIRE
Geoffrey Tihon & An Heirman

2. A presentation about INSPIRE
specifications… OMG!
FME World Tour 2016
An Heirman
20.04.2016

3. INSPIRE in a few slides…

4. INSPIRE
What is it?
Pollution knows no borders« INSPIRing a sustainable
environment »

5. INSPIRE – What is it?
 INSPIRE: INfrastructure for SPatial InfoRmation in Europe
 What? INSPIRE Directive (2007) transposed at the national and regional levels
in Belgium
 Who? Public authorities
 Aim? Better facilitate public access to spatial data related to the
environment across Europe
 Which data? Spatial data which can be used in environmental studies/policies

6. INSPIRE – Annexes

7. INSPIRE – Deadlines
Source: EC INSPIRE Website:
http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cf
m/pageid/44

8. Application
and
Geoportals
INSPIRE Technical Architecture - Overview
ApplLayer
Service
Layer
DataLayer
transformation
service
Harmonized
spatial data set
Spatial
data set
metadata
Spatial
service
metadata
download
service
view
service
discovery
service

9. INSPIRE - Common principles
 Data should be collected only once and kept where it can be maintained most
effectively
 It should be possible to combine seamless spatial information from different
sources across Europe and share it with many users and applications
 It should be possible for information collected at one level/scale to be shared
with all levels/scales; detailed for thorough investigations, general for
strategic purposes
 Geographic information needed for good governance at all levels should be
readily and transparently available
 Easy to find what geographic information is available, how it can be used to
meet a particular need, and under which conditions it can be acquired and
used

10. INSPIRE in 3 words
Collect
Harmonization
Share

11. INSPIRE and FME…

12. Inspire and FME
Collect
Harmonisation
Share
- Identification of your data providers
- Rules (What? How…)
- Format
- Data transfer
- Quality
- Conversion
- Historisation
- Maintenance
- Consistency between data
- Identifier management
- Representation
- Metadata
- Web Services

13. Collect your data with FME…
Collect
Format
Quality
Data
transfer
More and more sources quickly available
Can read or write over 300 formats
Automation of the process
Load via FTP, Rest protocol, …
Check the input quality
Automatic Reporting
Correction
Inform via mail

14. Harmonize your data with FME…
Data ready for
harmonization
Data ready for
harmonization
Data ready for
harmonization
Data ready for
harmonization
Model 1
Model 2
Model 3
Model 4
H
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Final data ready
for sharing
INSPIRE schema
Feature Type Mapping
Attribute Name Mapping Transformers
Attribute Value Mapping Transformers
Geometry and Coordinate System Transformations

15. Harmonize your data with FME…

16. Why FME for harmonization
• The most complete tool for creating,
distributing and using INSPIRE
compliant data
• No Coding! No XSLT!
• Flexible – Ready for Annex I, II and III
• Not a black box
• Stable
• Schema mapping – hard problem that
FME makes easier and automates

17. Share your data with FME
Publication
 Produce inspire compliant GML
 Offer as
 « predefined datasets » using FME Server implementing WFS 2.0 with
stored queries
 « predefined datasets » using FME Server implementing Atom feeds and
opensearch
 Direct access services using FME implementing WFS 2.0
 integrate with your Geo web server of choice (Geoserver, Mapserver, etc…)

18. Road Map - example

19. RoadMap done for ACT
(Luxembourg)
•Status Data
•Status
Technology
AS-IS
•Identify the
solutions
•Comparisons
SWOT analysis
•Plan
•Tasks
•Budget
RoadMap
•Validation SWOT
•Alignement with
INSPIRE deadlines
and specs
POC
•Collect
•Harmonization
•Share
Implementation

20. Conclusions
 INSPIRE:
 Can be very hard (several data providers, output schema
complex,…)
 Time is running and deadlines are defined
 Specialists in Geo-data can do the job for you
 It’s time to take action in your organization (POC, budget,…)
 FME:
 Most complete tool
to be compliant with INSPIRE
 Also for all other harmonization tasks

21. Thank you!
Contact us
Support
GIM Service Desk - 016 387 581 - info@gim.be
An Heirman
an.heirman@gim.be
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