French below. Français en dessous. What is it? The INSPIRE Registry Viewer is a tool developed by Egis. It was first developed with the idea and purpose of being able to better understand the scale of the European INSPIRE Re3gistry. By extracting data from the INSPIRE Re3gistry with a script, we were able to visualize these data with the INSPIRE Registry Viewer, which is based on the D3.js library. The tool is quite simple, it generates a diagram based on a json data input. The diagram is fully interactive which means you can zoom in and out, drag nodes and click on one of them to open its…

The INSPIRE Directive (2007/2/EC, 14.03.2007) defines the spatial data theme Addresses as the: “Location of properties based on address identifiers, usually by road name, house number, postal code.” This data specification on Addresses provides the basis for the development of the part of the Implementing Rules related to the spatial data theme Addresses. The entire data specification will be published as implementation guidelines accompanying the Implementing Rule on the Interoperability of Spatial Data Sets and Services according to Article 7 of the INSPIRE Directive. Objectives The purpose…

Within the INSPIRE context, Protected Sites may be located in terrestrial, aquatic and/or marine environments, and may be under either public or private ownership. They may include localities with protection targets defined by different sectors and based on different objectives. Objectives for protection may include: the conservation of nature; the protection and maintenance of biological diversity and of natural resources and the protection of person-made objects including buildings, pre-historic and historic archaeological sites, other cultural objects, or sites with specific geological…

The INSPIRE theme ‘Administrative units’ refers to the division of areas where Member States have and/or exercise jurisdictional rights, for local, regional and national governance, i.e. units at the cadastral parcel level are excluded as well as territorial waters, which are in fact assigned to the INSPIRE themes ‘Cadastral parcels’, ‘Hydrography’ and/or ‘Sea regions’. It does not include related systems such as census districts, post office regions and other sector-specific regions, but it will contain a reference to the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) This data…

The INSPIRE Directive focuses on the geographical part of cadastral data. In the INSPIRE context, cadastral parcels will be mainly used as locators for geo-information in general, including environmental data. As much as possible, in the INSPIRE context, cadastral parcels should be forming a partition of national territory. Cadastral parcel should be considered as a single area of Earth surface (land and/or water), national law under homogeneous property rights and unique ownership, property rights and ownership being defined by national law (adapted from UN ECE 2004 and WG-CPI, 2006). This…

This document describes the INSPIRE Data Specifications for the spatial data theme Geographical Names

This document specifies a harmonised data specification for the spatial data theme Hydrography as defined in the INSPIRE Directive. This data specification provides the basis for the drafting of Implementing Rules according to the INSPIRE Directive [Directive 2007/2/EC]. The entire data specification will be published as implementation guidelines accompanying these Implementing Rules. Objectives The purpose of this document is to specify a harmonised data specification for the spatial data theme Hydrography as defined in the INSPIRE Directive. The thematic scope of this data specification is…

This document specifies a harmonised data specification for the spatial data theme Transport Networks as defined in the INSPIRE Directive. This data specification provides the basis for the drafting of Implementing Rules according to the INSPIRE Directive [Directive 2007/2/EC]. The entire data specification will be published as implementation guidelines accompanying these Implementing Rules. Objectives The purpose of this document is to specify a harmonised data specification for the spatial data theme Transport Networks as defined in the INSPIRE Directive. However each organisation will have…

The INSPIRE theme Coordinate reference systems (CRS) provides a harmonised specification for uniquely referencing spatial information. This document also provides the specification for the map projections to be used for georeferencing the spatial information in plane coordinates. Objectives The scope of the theme Coordinate reference systems covers the Geodetic Coordinate Reference Systems (CRS) required for uniquely referencing spatial information in space as a set of coordinates (X, Y, Z) and/or latitude, longitude and height. This is achieved by defining a geodetic datum to express the…

The scope of the theme “Geographical grid systems” covers quadrilateral grids used for the indirect geo-referencing of themes with typically coarse resolution and wide (pan-European) geographical extent. The grid is two-dimensional and mainly used for Spatial Analysis or Reporting. A geographical grid is associated with predefined resolutions and a coding system for identifying individual cells. Objectives One method of storing spatial information with indirect position is by using geographical grids. Grids omit direct spatial reference and average the qualitative properties of the subject…