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INSPIRE Reference: D2.8.III.8_v2.0(.0)
TWG-PF Data Specification on Production and
Industrial Facilities
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management and remediation activities, construction, transporting and storage (excluding postal and
courier activities).
Production and industrial facilities are also related to an operator, i.e. the natural or legal person who
operates or controls the facility or, where this is provided in national legislation, to whom decisive
economic power over the technical functioning of the facility has been delegated.
The Production and Industrial Facilities theme is not concerned with the description of the actual flow of
materials occurring from one facility to another, or to distribution of a final product to the market. From a
business process perspective, the theme intends to capture information on quantities of materials and
substances which are reaching a facility, which are stored in it, or which are leaving it, in order to describe
its state. However, it is not within the scope of the theme to track where a given stock of material is
coming from, or where it is going to.
A production and industrial facility is typically composed by an extremely variable layout of buildings, plots
and other technical units, represented by machinery, piping, private railway sidings, docks, unloading
quays, jetties, etc. Such units are grouped in installations, related to the execution of a specific production
process.
Key feature types with spatial properties considered within the Production and Industrial Facilities theme
include: Site, Facility, Installation and Installation Part. These allow a breakdown of the elements
composing a production and industrial facility, with a focus on processes related to activities taking place
within the facility itself. Accessory feature types with spatial properties are: Production And Industrial
Building and Plot.
Concerning temporal aspects, a production facility is seen as such as long as the activity hosted by it is
ongoing. Should this activity terminate, the facility may maintain an industrial characterisation from an
environmental standpoint (such as the case of a contaminated site).
Numerous cases of more or less historical facilities which have been converted to interesting historical
landmarks, or to cultural and educational/recreational venues may also be observed. These facilities,
while retaining the layout and construction characteristics of a production/industrial site, will lose their
industrial status, and should be typically reclassified as buildings.
The model accounts for the possibility of tracking the status of the facility and the other spatial objects
with the use of temporal properties indicating the time period during which the status of the spatial object
is active or not.
2.3 Normative References
[Directive 2007/2/EC] Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March
2007 establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European
Community (INSPIRE)
[ISO 19107] EN ISO 19107:2005, Geographic Information – Spatial Schema
[ISO 19108] EN ISO 19108:2005, Geographic Information – Temporal Schema
[ISO 19108-c] ISO 19108:2002/Cor 1:2006, Geographic Information – Temporal Schema, Technical
Corrigendum 1
[ISO 19111] EN ISO 19111:2007 Geographic information - Spatial referencing by coordinates (ISO
19111:2007)
[ISO 19113] EN ISO 19113:2005, Geographic Information – Quality principles
[ISO 19115] EN ISO 19115:2005, Geographic information – Metadata (ISO 19115:2003)
[ISO 19118] EN ISO 19118:2006, Geographic information – Encoding (ISO 19118:2005)
[ISO 19123] EN ISO 19123:2007, Geographic Information – Schema for coverage geometry and
functions
[ISO 19135] EN ISO 19135:2007 Geographic information – Procedures for item registration (ISO
19135:2005)