Presentation given by John Gibbons of Salford City Council at Open Data Manchester on the 29th July 2014 about Salford's adoption of INPSIRE regulations

1. Introduction to INSPIRE
29 July 2014
Open Data Manchester
John Gibbons
ICT Services

2. Content today ..
What is INSPIRE and why we need it
What data has got published
Where the data is and what it looks like
What you can do with it?

3. • Infrastructure for spatial data in Europe
• Centralised publishing of dataINSPIRE?
• European Union directive
• Target dates from 2013 to 2020Background
• Environmental data
• www.data.gov.uk
What data,
and where?
What is INSPIRE?

4. Large infrastructure projects (HS2?)
• Covers large parts of the country
• Require up-to-date environmental data
• Takes time to request and assemble data
The data holders
• We don’t currently publish
• We don’t standardise data
• Data scattered across different organisations
Why do we need INSPIRE??

5. Land and property assets
Tree preservation orders
Town Centre Classification
Wildlife corridors
Aircraft zones
Some INSPIRE data categories

6. • Identify and collect the datasets
• Store data in GIS database
Gather the
data
• Create metadata for datasets
• Store metadata on data.gov.uk
Create
metadata
• Schedule data harvest
• Inspire compliance
Publish
data
How we publish the data

7. •View data on webData.gov.uk
•WMS and WFS to
bring data to desktop
QGIS
Live Demonstration
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illustrate live demo)

13. The principle
Less work in long run
Publishing methods
Lack of advice
What we think…

14. Summary
• Inspire is open data, but for a customer
• Uses open standards
• Easy to view maps (WMS)
• Easy to see data (WFS)
• Other formats possible (XML)

15. Where to start..
• Go to data.gov.uk
• Also try out similar offerings at ONS Geoportal,
Environment Agency and Land Regisistry
• Experiment with what you see
• Observe the licencing (it will change!)
• john.gibbons@salford.gov.uk 0161-793-2054