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Getting started on INSPIRE

by on Jul.28, 2010, under Data Management, Legal, Online Data Sources

The EU INSPIRE Directive places very significant amounts of work on public authorities to make their spatial data available and harmonised. The steps to achieving INSPIRE compliance and making data available for re-use can seem like a long and ardeous task (and likely will be in many cases) – especially if you start out by reading the documentation hosted on the INSPIRE website. It’s not that the documentation is bad – it is very exhaustive, and perhaps a little too exhaustive for people who are just beginning to dip their toe and find out what needs to be done.

Enter the UK Location Programme’s new “Getting Started” page with a series of short guides that gives an overview of what is required on the data manager level to publish location information. Obviously these guides are styled directly to publishing directly to the UK Location programme and the data.gov.uk portal – but even if you are from another country or a devolved administration – these guides provide some useful information about what needs to be done.

Currently there are four guides published, with another six planned or in production, and if you are feeling a little set back by the magnitude of INSPIRE – this is a good place to start.


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