Implementation of the INSPIRE Directive

Project facts

Project promoter:
Estonian Land Board
Project Number:
EE02-0001
Target groups
Bodies responsible for systems and policies in education and local, regional and/or national level.
Status:
Completed
Initial project cost:
€1,472,500
Final project cost:
€1,472,500
From EEA Grants:
€ 1,334,232
The project is carried out in:
Estonia

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Description

The project aims at establishing an infrastructure for spatial information in compliance with the requirements of the INSPIRE Directive in order to be able to share spatial data between several users and applications and to meet the international obligations. Project Objectives: * Establishing access to the spatial information according the requirements of the INSPIRE Directive through creating view, discovery, transformation, downloading services * Annex I, II and III data themes databases are available through services * Updating land cover datasets corresponding to Annex II themes for achieving compatibility with INSPIRE data specifications Expected results: * Network services are compliant to INSPIRE requirements * Land cover data updated 17% of the territory * Spatial data sets transformed to INSPIRE data model Donor Project partner is Statens Kartverk Norway (Norwegian Mapping Authority) From the wider point of view the beneficiary is public. They are involved by public tools as seminar and press release. The public officials beneficiaries, who mostly are the data owners in meaning of the INSPIRE directive, were involved by INSPIRE reporting system.

Summary of project results

The project helped to fulfil the requirements of the INSPIRE Directive - Estonian Land Board spatial data is converted to INSPIRE data model and available through services and update the Land Cover data in the areas, where it was last updated as long ago as 1990-ties Outcomes: - convert data to INSPIRE themes data model- result 15 themes were converted (purpose was 14) - built the search, view, download and transformation services - result services were built. - update the land cover data - result 19% of Estonian territory (purpose was 17) Converting 15 themes data to INSPIRE data models and building the services helped Estonia to follow the INSPIRE implementation timeline. Updating the land cover data 19% of Estonian territory helped to keep Estonian Topographic database up to date. Updated land cover data is together with other land board managed data available through the INSPIRE services. The impact of the Project: - Awareness of requirements of INSPIRE directive is raised and users can get better access to data; - Open data download available without the communication with data owner; - Cooperation with other governmental institutions, who own the INSPIRE data is more comprehensive; - The Land Board INSPIRE databases are in order to communicate with INSPIRE data model; - Land cover data is up to date and therefore more trustful From the wider point of view the beneficiary is public. They were involved by public tools as seminar and press release. The public officials beneficiaries, who mostly are the data owners in meaning of the INSPIRE directive, were involved by INSPIRE reporting system. The main benefot - Estonian Land Board INSPIRE themes data is converted to INSPIRE data model and available through search, view and download services. With the project Estonian Land Board was able to follow the timeline for implementation INSPIRE directive. All Estonian data is available in the INSPIRE geoportal http://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/

Summary of bilateral results

Norvegian Mapping Agenncy, supported and gave advice about search-, view, download services, transformation data models from local models to INSPIRE data models and methodologies of updating land cover data. Partners views about interpretation of INSPIRE themes and services became more similar. Outcome of the project is the interpretation that was achieved in discussions of the consultig visitis. The output of the project has been put in place by INSPIRE Directive and the aim of the project was not to solve INSPIRE data user problems. Cooperation between two organisation was very good. There were all together four visits in specialist level. The understanding of the subject is similar and both partners getting use of the change of knowledge. The project was designed to meet the particular requirements of the INSPIRE directive by the fixed timetable and it didn't leave much room to discuss the solutions. But understanding in management level as well as specialist level gave good ideas to cooperate also in future and involve the partner in the project meaningfully in next project, possibly together with Icelandic Mapping Agency.