INSPIRE Overview

Emilio López Romero

Director of the National Centre for Geographic Information

SDI >> A story sample

• I was working in the NSDI from 2003 to 2006

• Then, I decided to move to the Ministry of Housing and my boss asked me:

I need an Urban Planning Information System

Ok, which information do you want to provide?

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SDI >> A story sample

• I was working in the NSDI from 2006 to 2010

• Then, I decided to move to the Ministry of Housing and my boss asked me:

Urban planning, land use, cadastre parcels, images, maps,…

Ok, and what resources will I have to do it?

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SDI >> A story sample

• I was working in the NSDI from 2006 to 2010

• Then, I decided to move to the Ministry of Housing and my boss asked me:

Mmm, not many. You know we are suffering budget cuts

Ok, I will see what I can do…

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SDI >> A story sample

• So:

– I didn’t have human resources (only two people)

– I didn’t have a IT infrastructure (only two or three servers)

– I didn’t have datasets (only urban planning maps from some particular areas)

– But, I had some contacts and some knowledge…

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SDI >> A story sample

• Some questions:

– If the Cadastre Department is providing cadastral data, why do I have to get, store and publish them?

– If the National Geographic Institute is providing images and topographic maps, could I get access to this data?

– If the Region governments have urban planning information, is it needed I produce it again?

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SDI >> A story sample

• The solution was…Spatial Data Infrastructure

Internet

Cadastre parcels

Images

Regional Urban planning

Urban Information

System

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SDI >> Definition

• A spatial data infrastructure is a network integrated by:

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policy

services

metadata

geographic datasets

INSPIRE >> Definition

• The INSPIRE Directive aims to create a European Union spatial data infrastructure for the purposes of EU environmental policies.

• INSPIRE is based on the infrastructures for spatial information established and operated by the Member States of the European Union.

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INSPIRE >> Principles

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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.

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.

INSPIRE >> Data conditions

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they relate to an area where a Member State has and/or exercises jurisdictional

rights

they are in electronic format

they are held by or on behalf of a public authority

they relate to one or more of the themes listed in Annex I, II or III

INSPIRE >> Annexes

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INSPIRE >> Implementing Rules

• INSPIRE Directive has been developed by five Implementing Rules:

• They are mandatory for Member States13

Metadata

Data specifications

Network services

Data and service sharing

Monitoring & reporting

INSPIRE >> Technical Guidelines

Non-binding

They describe detailed

implementationaspects and relations

with existing standards,

technologies, and practices.

They define how Member States might

implement the Implementing Rules.

Technical Implementing this

guidance will maximize the

interoperability of INSPIRE services.

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INSPIRE >> Roadmap

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Spanish SDI >> Administrative organization

• How is Spain organized at administrative level?:

– more than 500.000 km2

– national level

• government of Spain (7 Ministries managing GI)

– regional level

• 17 autonomous regions

• 2 autonomous cities

– local level

• 8.118 municipalities

• 47 provincial governments

• counsel insulars

• island council 16

Spanish SDI >> Spain & Turkey figures

Spain Turkey

Area 504 645 km² 783 562 km²

Provinces 52 81

Population 46 524 943 79 414 269

GDP $ 1 569 407 M $ 1 566 369 M

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Spanish SDI >> INSPIRE transposition

• In Spain, INSPIRE was adopted through the Spanish Law 14/2010, 5th July, about the infrastructures and geographic information services in Spain

– It also organized the geographic information in Spain.

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Spanish SDI >> Organization

• How is the NSDI organized?:

Ministry of Public Works

National Geographic High Council

Executive Board of Spanish NSDI

national contact point for INSPIREagencies involved in GI at national, regional and local level

WG thematicWG cross-cutting

• hydrography• transport network• geographical

names• cadaster parcels• …

• network services• metadata• monitoring & reporting• data policy

experts from national &regional institutions ofcompetent bodies in aparticular INSPIRE theme

Iberian SDI ConferencesSpain NSDI Geoportal

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Number of services for administrative levels

National Regional Local Neighbours

viewdiscoverydownloadothers

Implementing INSPIRE >> Introduction

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Implementing INSPIRE >> Steps

1. Identifying key datasets

2. Creating metadata

3. Implementing services

4. Adapting the datasets

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Implementing INSPIRE >> Steps

1. Identifying key datasets

– Distributed competences

– Identifying actors

– Engaging actors

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Implementing INSPIRE >> Steps

2. Creating metadata

– Conformity

– Quality

– Tools:

• GeoNetwork

• INSPIRE Geoportal Metadata Validator

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Implementing INSPIRE >> Steps

3. Implementing services– Discovery

• GeoNetwork

– View• WMS 1.3.0

– + LANG + SYMBOLIZATION + LAYER NAMES

– Geoserver (some adjustments needed)

– Mapserver (some adjustments needed)

• WMTS– Geowebcache

– Discovery• ATOM + OpenSearch

– Tailored software

• WFS 2.0– + LANG + OPERATIONS

– Deegree

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Implementing INSPIRE >> Steps

4. Adapting the datasets

– Mapping attributes

• INSPIRE platform

– Transforming databases

• FME

• HALE

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IGN SDI Node >> Datasets

• offering official cartography of the IGN at different scales– 1:25,000 (visible at 1:50,000 and larger scales)

– 1:200,000 (visible at 1:50,000 and smaller scales)

• several services for several INSPIRE themes:– administrative units

– addresses

– transport networks

– hydrography

– elevation

– land cover

– orthoimagery

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IGN SDI Node >> Network services

• 18 WMS

– Raster map

– Imagery

– Vector map

– Administrative units

– DTM

– Land use and coverage

– Seismology

– Geodetic networks

– Historical flights

– Others: tourism, grids, historical maps

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IGN SDI Node >> Network services

• 6 WMTS

– Raster map

– Imagery

– Vector map

– DTM

– Historical maps

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IGN SDI Node >> Network services

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MTN

• Updating for sheets MTN50 y MTN25

• Each 3 months

• Precache JPEG until 16 level (1:4.265)

OI.OrthoimageCoverage

• Updating for mosaics 1:50.000

• Each 1 - 2 months

• Precache JPEG until 18 level (1:1.000)

IGNBaseTodo - IGNBaseOrto

• Updating for layers:• BTN, BCN, CartoCiudad, NGBE, SIGLIM

• Precache until 17 level (1:2.000)• JPEG (IGNBaseTodo) / PNG (IGNBaseOrto)

CRS 1 CRS 2 CRS 3

JPEG

PNG

CRS 1 CRS 2 CRS 3

JPEG

PNG

CRS 1

JPEG

CRS 2 CRS 3

CRS 1

PNG

CRS 2 CRS 3

IGN SDI Node >> Network services

• 12 WFS– Postal codes

– Addresses

– Hydrography

– Transport Network

– Land use

– Administrative units

– Named places

– Geodetic network

• 1 ATOM

• 1 CSW

• Others (WPS, WCS)38

IGN SDI Node >> Logical architecture

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www

view services

downloadservices

discoveryservice

Geoportal y client apps

other services

vector & images

metadata

IGN SDI Node >> IT figures

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• there are 11 racks hosting servers, storage arrays and communication elements

• servers in production:– cache: 2 servers

– WMTS: 12 servers

– WMS Basemap (vector): 6

– WMS images & raster: 7

– Geoportal and clients: 2 + 2

– CSW: 2

– TN (WMS + others): 4 + 4

– Database: 10 (PostGIS)

– File server: 7

IGN SDI Node >> IT figures

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• Bandwidth: 1 Gbps

• 3 storage arrays in production (HP & Fujitsu)

– EVA 6400 (20 TB) virtualization

– P2000-II (96 TB) historical flights (2004-2015)

– HP 3PAR (100 TB)

• Cache

• Virtualization

• Files for downloading

• Databases

• Historical flights (1930-1990)

• Web resources

IGN SDI Node >> Software

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• Operative systems– CentOS

– Windows Server

• Database– Postgres/PostGIS (pgPool)

• GI software– Geoserver/Geowebcache

– Deegree, 52th North

– Mapserver

– Ad hoc software (based on OpenLayers)

• Others– Liferay

– Varnish

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caché

wms

wmts

wms wms

wmts

filesdb

varnish

geowebcache

vector: geoserverraster: mapserver

vector: postgresql/postgisraster: file server

IGN SDI Node >> IT figures

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• Two environments

– VMWare: 8 physical servers ≈ 40 virtual servers

– Xen Server: 9 physical servers ≈ 120 virtual servers

• Cloud computing

– Content Delivery Network

• Amazon EC2