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8th Jul 2010
1Spatial’s ‘Sensor Web Enablement’ Capability Enters Live Field Trials
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30th Jun 2010
Second draft of Technical Guidance on Schema Transformation Network Service published
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24th Aug 2010
Realising the Benefits of Location Information: Implementing INSPIRE and the UK Location Programme
London UK
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6th Sep 2010 to 9th Sep 2010
FOSS4G 2010
Barcelona Spain
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Long established as a technology-driven company, 1Spatial has a distinguished history of being involved in cutting-edge spatial data research and development. This pedigree continues today with our engagement in both internal projects and those in collaboration with outside bodies such as OGC, Esprit, US Army TEC.

We are committed to an active role in targeted geospatial data research with a main focus on developing geospatial data quality, data re-use and re-purposing tools, and how to make such tools accessible and useable to users in today’s enterprise-wide solutions.

4/4send to a friend - bookmark this pageINSPIRE

INSPIRE is a European Union (EU) directive. It became EU law in March 2007. The directive's origins stem from a need to exchange environmental data and to comply with earlier public sector information directives. INSPIRE's goal is to solve the problems regarding the availability, quality, organisation, accessibility and sharing of spatial information across a large number of policy and information themes for the benefit of public authorities. Solving these problems requires measures that address exchange, sharing, access and use of interoperable spatial data and spatial data services across the various levels of public authority and across different sectors. The directive envisages the provision of infrastructures for spatial information. The INSPIRE directive identifies a number of spatial data themes that are divided into three annexes.

INSPIRE comes with a defined implementation timeline. Metadata for themes has to be available within two years of the implementing rules for the Annex I and Annex II themes. The implementing rules for metadata were established in 2008.

1Spatial has been heavily involved with Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) and EU projects focussed on making it possible to discover, transform, view and download spatial data. These include Northern Ireland's GeoHub SDI and the EU projects ESDIN and more recently the schema transformation services best practice guideline project. These activities are based on providing practical assistance to manage location data within a framework which allows identification, referencing and lifecycle update. Since data discovery and usage will be separated in time and space from the data creation our solutions are based maximising re-use and reducing duplication. Using the ISO19113 data quality principles of completeness; logical consistency; positional, thematic and temporal accuracy we develop strategies for enhancing the quality and availability of spatial data.

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