1. Implementing INSPIRE services for Dutch Provinces
Implementing
INSPIRE services for
Dutch provinces
Herman Assink
Geospatial World Forum
Leveraging SMEs' strength for INSPIRE
May 16th 2013

2. Implementing INSPIRE services for Dutch Provinces
Agenda
IDgis
INSPIRE @ Dutch provinces
Architecture of the solution
Organization of the implementation
Sharing and re-use
Opportunities & barriers
Triggers for innovation

3. Implementing INSPIRE services for Dutch Provinces
IDgis
● 6 employees → not small but micro
● Own products: WEB-GIS viewer / applications
● Custom applications / geo system integrator
● Working on SDI's for more then 10 years
● Won the INSPIRE tender of provinces

4. Implementing INSPIRE services for Dutch Provinces
INSPIRE @ Dutch provinces
● 12 independent provinces
● In Annex I Protected Sites which consist of six
different datasets (Aardkundige waarden,
Ecologische hoofdstructuur, etc.)
● In Annex III 8 INSPIRE themes, app 15 source
datasets
● Datasets not harmonized

5. Implementing INSPIRE services for Dutch Provinces
Architecture,
merging 12 provinces
Validator
Harvester
Transformer &
Loader Database
National
Discovery
ServiceView
Service
(deegree)
Download
Service
(deegree)
CS-W
Provinces Groningen
Friesland
...
WFS's of provinces;
harmonized,
“flat” data
url's & revision
date of WFS's
INSPIRE compliant
data structure

6. Implementing INSPIRE services for Dutch Provinces
View Service

7. Implementing INSPIRE services for Dutch Provinces
Organization of implementation
● Central team consisting of experts from several companies,
managed by IPO:
● Harmonize / mapping proposals
● Support provinces
● 12 Provinces: providing WFS services
● IDgis
● Development of ETL components
● Establishing INSPIRE services
● lat/lon
● Development of deegree extensions
● Testing INSPIRE compliancy

8. Implementing INSPIRE services for Dutch Provinces
Sharing & re-use
● Presentations: GWF 2012, Intergeo, Dutch Open
Source GIS conference
● Use of about >20 open source products, such as
Linux, Nagios, PostgreSQL&PostGIS, deegree,
geotools, Dojo, Spring and other Java tools
● Central facilities for data & services of all provinces
● INSPIRE facilities are an SDI which is available for
other organizations
● Re-use of specific components, e.g. ETL mapping and
download

9. Implementing INSPIRE services for Dutch Provinces
Opportunities
● Gathering knowledge and experience as a SME
with standards and tools in a relative large
project
● Re-use of knowledge and components in other
projects
● Open data

10. Implementing INSPIRE services for Dutch Provinces
Barriers
● Usefullness of Inspire data for national
applications (Inspire data is simplified)
● Many GIS clients not yet capable of handling of
complex structured data (as defined by data
specifications
● For IDgis: Finding good employees

11. Implementing INSPIRE services for Dutch Provinces
Innovation triggers
● Harmonizing data from multiple organizations
● Quality of Service requirements
● Complex data specifications

12. Implementing INSPIRE services for Dutch Provinces
Thanks!
● www.idgis.nl
● www.lat-lon.de
● www.inspire-provincies.nl