1. Geoportal.lt – inspired by INSPIRE
Evelina Indilaite, SE GIS-Centras, e.indilaite@gis-centras.lt

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Content
1. Company’s profile
2. Our solution – geoportal.lt
3. INSPIRE incorporation
4. Obstacles
5. Opportunities

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SE GIS-Centras
SE National Centre of Remote sensing and geoinformatics “GIS-Centras” in Lithuania
1. Update and distribution of the national geographic databases
2. Maintenance of the national reference databases, projects
3. Geographic information systems’ implementation and support
4. Development of cartographic visualizations
5. Management and development of the Lithuanian Spatial
information infrastructure portal – www.geoportal.lt

4. Geoportal.lt – national gateway for the spatial data access and distribution
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Geoportal.lt
COLLABORATION
governmental agencies
municipal authorities
private sector companies
ACCESS & SHARE
INFORMATION
people
organizations
companies
BENEFITS
easy search
reduce time
wide range of recourses

6. Geoportal.lt
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CONTENTS
APPLICATIONS SERVICES
MAP BROWSER

7. Geoportal.lt
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LIS SERVICES LAND MANAGEMENT PLANS
FREE LAND MANAGEMENT APPLICATION CARTOGRAPHY ARCHIVE

8. NSDI portals
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• Geographic data register (mainly metadata)
Belgium
• Geographic data bank (metadata, data, services)
Sweden
• Geographic data sharing system (proportional methodological
component)
Poland
• Holistic geographic data sharing system (full scale GI platform)
Great Britain

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Geoportal.lt in 2012 – 2013
1. Provided more than 160 public and free of charge spatial data
download and view electronic services.
2. Provided more than 235 metadata in a geoportal.lt search
service.
3. More than 17 organizations are providing the data to
geoportal.lt.
4. More than 3740 registered geoportal.lt users.
STATISTICS
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

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Geoportal.lt from a very beginning
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
2003 developing ideas first discussions
2004 looking
for partners preparation
activities
2005
2006 beginning of the project (Lithuanian Spatial
Information Infrastructure - LSII)
2007 project is
being developed
directive establishing INSPIRE
2008 beginning
2009 LSII and geoportal.lt was launched
implementation
of
INSPIRE
specification
2010 implementation of INSPIRE discovery service;
new people joining the team2011
2012 geoportal.lt regarding INSPIRE requirements
2013 new project of LSII development begins!
GIS-CENTRAS INSPIRE

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Obstacles
1. Technical conditions for linking
data
2. Compatibility of the spatial data
3. The regulations for spatial data
supply are not always suitable in
different cases
4. Spatial data automatic sharing
5. Quality of spatial data supply
6. Communication issues

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Opportunities
Geoportal.lt recourses as a
for the other projects

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Opportunities
1. Creating business value
2. Wider spatial data usage
3. Increasing number of the spatial data users
4. Significance of the spatial data in Lithuania
5. Publicity program
OUR SOLUTIONS
1. Tourism
2. Ecological farms
3. Land information system
4. Platform for register and
cadastre data
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14. Thank you!
Evelina Indilaite, SE GIS-Centras, e.indilaite@gis-centras.lt