Ready for INSPIRE - con terra GmbH

Increasing Added Valuewith INSPIRE and SDI ComponentsINSPIREIn 2007, the European Commission issued directive2007/2/EC, which deals with the establishmentof an “Infrastructure for Spatial Informationin Europe“, or INSPIRE, for short. Its purpose isto create a uniform spatial database for Europe,that can be accessed via geoservices. To thisend, member states are obligated to provide, instages, interoperable, environmentally relevantspatial data, along with the attendant metainformation.The aim is to simplify the cross-borderutilisation of spatial data in Europe and to createa basis for political decision making in Europe.T r ai ni n gConsultancySolutionsSOFTWAREINSPIRE has gone on to develop over and beyondits original purpose into an integral component ofe-government, with the positive effect that administrativeprocesses are becoming simpler, more efficient andcloser to the public. Above all, INSPIRE supports theminimisation of transactional costs associated withthe provision, refinement and use of spatial data, whichwill lead to a considerably more intensive use of spatialinformation, the volume of which has grown extremelyrapidly in recent years.con terra has played a central role in developing INSPIRE,and it is one of Europe’s leading suppliers of INSPIREspecifictechnologies and services. The company seesitself as a European SDI Service Centre and pursues thephilosophy that legal obligation should not be viewed inisolation, but that INSPIRE and SDI components shouldbe integrated beneficially within value chains, thus maximisingtheir added value.Consultancy – customer-oriented,competent and holisticGovernment bodies to which INSPIRE is addressed arefaced with the challenge of identifying and implementingobligatory INSPIRE requirements. To this end, con terrahas developed a special consultancy package to supportcustomers in this process.INSPIRE Quick Check & ImplementationRecommendations• Determination of customer-specific INSPIRE requirementsand identification of areas in which action isneeded, based on a gap analysis,• Outline technical concept of the necessary INSPIREcomponents taking into account IT, organisationaland business framework conditions.Technology and Architecture Consultancy• Customer-specific solution design in an INSPIRE orSDI environment (e.g. securing geoservices, setting upe-commerce solutions, and transforming data).Strategic Consultancy• Support in the area of strategic decision makingprocesses, e.g. in the development of SDI roadmaps,project design or setting up coordination and organisationalunits.