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INSPIRE Member State Report: Spain 2012

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INSPIRE

Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe

Member State Report: Spain, 2012


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Title Member State Report: Spain, 2012

Creator Joan Capdevila Subirana (IGN)

Date 14 May 2013

Subject INSPIRE report for Spain for the period 2010-2012

Status Draft

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Description Official Report in response to the INSPIRE implementation and monitoring rules

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Coverage Spain, 2010-2011-2012

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Version number

Date Modified by Comments

0.0 2013-02-15

Joan Capdevila

Jenny Muñoz

First version

1.0 2013-04-30

Juan Luis Quesada Paloma Abad Jesús Gallego Isabel del Bosque Fernando Pérez Javier Ruza Pablo Burgos Fernando Serrrano Cristina Zamorano

Contributions and comments from the nodes of the Central State Administration

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Antonio Luján Javier Ruza Alfonso Muñoz Guillermo Villa

Contributions and comments from the Technical Working Groups


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Antonio Arozarena María Jesús Gutiérrez Luis Roberto Rodríguez Emilio López

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Agustín Villar Rafael Martínez Félix Escalas Manuel Blanco Gabriel Jesús Ortiz Alberto González Luis Ferreres José Ramón Suárez Manuel López Joan Sendra Rafael Herrero Pedro Mendive Juan Carlos Barroso Gonzalo López

Contributions and comments from the Autonomous Communities


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Table of contents

1. Executive summary ........................................................................................................................... 5

2. Abbreviations and acronyms ......................................................................................................... 6

3. Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 10

4. Coordination and quality assurance ........................................................................................ 12

4.1 Coordination .............................................................................................................................. 12 4.2 Quality assurance ..................................................................................................................... 25

5. Operation and coordination of infrastructure ..................................................................... 32

5.1 Overview of the spatial data infrastructures ................................................................ 32 5.2 INSPIRE players and their roles ......................................................................................... 33 5.3 Measures taken to facilitate sharing and cooperation by the players ................ 39 5.4 Access to the INSPIRE geo-portal services .................................................................... 42

6. Use of the spatial data infrastructure ...................................................................................... 44

6.1 Use of SDI spatial data services .......................................................................................... 44 6.2 Use of spatial data sets ........................................................................................................... 47 6.3 Use of SDI by the general public......................................................................................... 48 6.4 Cross-border use ...................................................................................................................... 48 6.5 Use of transformation services ........................................................................................... 49

7. Data sharing ...................................................................................................................................... 50

7.1 Sharing of data between public authorities ................................................................... 50 7.2 Sharing of data between public authorities and EU institutions and bodies ... 53 7.3 Barriers to sharing and action taken to overcome them .......................................... 54

8. Cost/benefit aspects....................................................................................................................... 56

8.1 Costs of implementing the INSPIRE Directive .............................................................. 56 8.2 Observed benefits .................................................................................................................... 57

9. Conclusions ........................................................................................................................................ 59

10. Annexes ............................................................................................................................................ 61

10.1 List of organisations .......................................................................................................... 61 10.2 List of references for compiling the report ................................................................. 82


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1. Executive summary

This is the official report on the implementation of the INSPIRE Directive in Spain over the period 2010-2012 in response to the mandate of Commission Decision 2009/442/EC, of 5 June 2009, implementing Directive 2007/2/EC as regards monitoring and reporting. This document is structured in accordance with the instructions received from the EC/EEA INSPIRE Team, which is the team that coordinates activities relating to compliance with Commission Decision 2009/442/EC.

The document consists of the following parts:

• A chapter on the coordination structures set up to implement the Directive in Spain. It sets out the organisational aspects at national level and the instruments relating to the reference nodes of the Central State Administration and the Autonomous Communities and Cities.

• The previous chapter contains a section devoted to quality assurance of the data sets and the services offered by the public authorities using spatial information infrastructures. In this chapter, emphasis is placed on the quality-assurance procedures, the issues they raise and the quality-certification mechanisms applied.

• A chapter on the operation and coordination of the geographic information infrastructure. It identifies the key players, the measures taken to facilitate the exchange of spatial data and services between them and the use of the INSPIRE geo-portal.

• A chapter on the use of spatial information infrastructure, from the point of view of the use of data sets and services, and of the use made by the general public. Special attention is paid to cross-border use of the infrastructure and the use of transformation services.

• A chapter on the data interchange agreements, making a distinction between those between public authorities and those between them and the European institutions. There is a specific section discussing the barriers identified in relation to these agreements.

• A chapter on aspects of the costs of implementing the Directive and the benefits observed.

• After the conclusions, the annexes list the organisations acting as reference nodes in Spain and describes their functions. It also lists the addresses of the websites mentioned, references to legislation and bibliographical references.


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2. Abbreviations and acronyms

ADIF Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias (Rail Infrastructure Manager)

AGC Catalonia Regional Administration

AGE Administración General del Estado (Central State Administration)

AGILE Association of Geographic Information Laboratories for Europe

AOC Consorci Administració Oberta de Catalunya (Open Administration Consortium of Catalonia)

BTA Base Topográfica Armonizada (Harmonised Topographical Database)

C4 Comissió de Coordinació Cartogràfica de Catalunya (Mapping Coordination Committee of Catalonia)

CCAA Autonomous Communities

CCHS Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (Centre for Human and Social Sciences)

CE IDE Specialist SDI Committee of the Higher Geographic Council

CENG Specialist Geographic Standards Committee

CICTEx Centro de Información Cartográfica y Territorial de Extremadura (Extremadura Mapping and Regional Information Centre)

CINTA Centro de Información Territorial de Aragón (Aragon Regional Information Centre)

CODIIGE Consejo Directivo de la Infraestructura de Información Geográfica de España (Executive Council for Spanish Geographic Information Infrastructure)

CPT Comunidad de Trabajo de los Pirineos (Pyrenees Working Community)

CSG Consejo Superior Geográfico (Higher Geographic Council)

CSIC Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Higher Scientific Research Council)

CSIDEC Centro de Apoyo de la Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales de Cataluña (Catalonia Spatial Data Infrastructure Support Centre)

CSW Catalog Service for the Web

CTP Comisión de Trabajo de los Pirineos (Pyrenees Working Committee)

DDB Digital database

EAGLE Eionet Action Group on Land monitoring in Europe

EC European Commission

EC/EEA European Commission / European Environment Agency

EGDI pan-European Geological Data Infrastructure

EIONET European Environment Information and Observation Network

ELRA European Land Registry Association

ETC/SIA European Topic Centre for Spatial information and Analysis


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EURADIN European Address Infrastructure

EUREF European Geodetic Reference Systems

EUROGEOSS European approach to the Global Earth Observation System of Systems

FEGA Fondo Español de Garantía Agraria (Spanish Agricultural Guarantee Fund)

GBIF Global Biodiversity Information Facility

GI Geographic Information

GIS Geographical Information System

GIS4EU GIS4EU project

GMES Global Monitoring for Environment and Security

GPS Global Positioning System

GT-EIEL Working Group on the Survey of Local Infrastructure and Equipment

GT-IDEAndalucía

SDI Working Group for Andalusia

GTT S&I Technical Working Group on Monitoring and Reporting

HELM Harmonized European Land Monitoring

HLANDATA Harmonization of European Land Use and Land Cover Databases

HTML Hypertext Markup Language

HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol

ICC Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya (Mapping Institute of Catalonia)

ICV Instituto Cartográfico Valenciano (Mapping Institute of Valencia)

IDEAragon Spatial Data Infrastructure for Aragon

IDEC Spatial Data Infrastructure for Catalonia

IDECV Spatial Data Infrastructure for Valencia

IDEE Spatial Data Infrastructure for Spain

IDEE WG Grupo de Trabajo de la Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales de España (Working Group on Spatial Data Infrastructure in Spain)

IDEG Spatial Data Infrastructure for Galicia

IDEIB Spatial Data Infrastructure for the Balearic Islands

IDEM Spatial Data Infrastructure for Madrid

IDENA Spatial Data Infrastructure for Navarre

IECA Statistical and Mapping Institute of Andalusia

IGME Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (Geological and Mining Institute of Spain)

IGN National Geographic Institute

IIGE Geographic Information Infrastructure for Spain

ILAF OGC Iberian and Latin American Forum of the Open Geospatial Consortium

INIG National Geographic Information Infrastructure


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INSPIRE Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2007 establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community

IP Internet Protocol

IPTS Institute for Prospective Technological Studies

ISO International Organization for Standardization

JIIDE Iberian Conference on Spatial Data Infrastructures

JRC Joint Research Centre

LISIGE Law on Geographic Infrastructure and Information Services in Spain

LMO INSPIRE Legally Mandated Organisations

MAGRAMA Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment

MNE Model Gazetteer for Spain

Nature SDI+ Best Practice Network for SDI in Nature Conservation

NCA Mapping Standard for Aragon

NEM Spanish Metadata Core

NGA Gazetteer for Andalusia

NGBE Basic Gazetteer for Spain

NGCE Concise Gazetteer for Spain

NTCA Mapping Technical Standards for Andalusia

OGC Open Geospatial Consortium

OSE Sustainability Observatory for Spain

OTALEXC Regional and environmental observatory project for the Alentejo, Central Portugal and Extremadura, Spain

PCA Mapping Plan of Aragon

PCC Mapping Plan of Catalonia

PNOA National Aerial Orthophotographic Plan

RCC Mapping Registry for Catalonia

RSS Really Simple Syndication

SCN National Mapping System

SDI Spatial Data Infrastructure

SDIC INSPIRE Spatial Data Interest Communities

SDS Spatial data sets

SGT Working subgroups

SIGPAC Geographical Information System for Farming Land

SIOSE Land-Use Information System for Spain

SITAR Regional Information System for Aragon

SITIBSA Regional Information System for the Balearic Islands

SITNA Regional Information System for Navarre

SIU Urban Information System

TIG Geographic Information Technologies


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TRACASA Trabajos Catastrales, SA

TWG Technical Working Group

TWG Thematic Working Groups

UNSDI United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure

VIG Validation of Geological Information

WMS Web Map Service

XML Extensible Markup Language


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3. Introduction

There has been a gradual development of SDI in Spain in recent years, at differing but constant rates at the three levels of the country's administration:

• national level, represented by AGE bodies;

• regional level, represented by the governments of the Autonomous Communities, and

• local level, represented by provincial councils, councils, island councils and municipalities. The development of SDI has been mainly in the hands of the public sector and, more specifically, of agencies producing geographic information.

During the period 2010-2012 we continued to commission and improve reference geo-portals at each of these levels. The various INSPIRE monitoring campaigns carried out over this period indicate that a large number of SDSs and public services have been made available via the internet from those geo-portals. It is the result of the comprehensive commitment by all levels of government in Spain to provide free and interoperable geographic information. Meetings promoted by IDEE WG, with the support of CSG, have provided an important driver.

From the organisational standpoint, this period saw the entry into force of the LISIGE in 2010. This Law transposed the INSPIRE Directive and created the legal and institutional framework to promote both the implementation of the Directive and the development of SDIs. This task fell to CODIIGE, which began work in 2011 and has been deployed through the setting-up of the technical working groups. The TWGs are a number of themed or specialist working groups which have been given the mission to respond to the various technical and coordination challenges facing CODIIGE. The TWGs were set up throughout 2012 and are composed of formal representatives of the relevant institutions.

A major effort has been made to participate in the TWGs which have tackled the themes in Annex III and to take part in all the events and projects arising in connection with the Directive.

From the standpoint of the supply of SDSs and services, we would report that during 2010-2012 each reference node developed positively, albeit at very different rates from one another. The IDEE geo-portal has acted as a driver of activity, an access point to the Spanish IDE, a repository for documentation, a catalogue coordinator and a showcase for resources and tools. The IDEE geo-portal is the main reference, but each node in the IDEE is independent and participates in it on equal footing with the rest. On the other hand, the major harmonisation projects developed under the CSG (BTA, MNE, NEM, CartoCiudad, etc.) have been incorporating the INSPIRE data models. However, to date there are only a few examples of SDSs complying with INSPIRE and only one network service that meets the implementing rules of the Directive.

At the end of the 2010-2012 period, heavily influenced by the difficult economic situation that Europe is undergoing, the challenge is to continue providing the services


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implemented in the IDEE, to continue adding new features and to observe the implementing rules of the INSPIRE Directive.

About this report

This report was drafted using the structure proposed by the EC/EEA INSPIRE Team and in compliance with Commission Decision 2009/442/EC of 5 June 2009 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC as regards monitoring and reporting.

It was drafted using contributions from the network of bodies and organisations in the INSPIRE Directive monitoring network that take part each year in the monitoring campaigns: 9 Central State Administration bodies, 17 Autonomous Communities and 2 Autonomous Cities. It also benefited from the cooperation of the 15 TWGs in place during the consultation period.

The report was coordinated by the Monitoring and Reporting TWG through a process of consultation and review that was divided into four phases:

• Phase 1 - raw data collection. In early June 2012, information was requested from both participants in the annual monitoring and the TWGs, regarding the various chapters of the report. In September all the information was compiled into an initial document, combining that from participants in monitoring with that from the TWGs.

• Phase 2 - Second request for data. The resulting document was circulated among the contacts in the Autonomous Communities and Cities and the TWGs, for comment and additional information. The request was made in mid-November and the responses were collected in mid-January. The aim was to locate the most important errors and shortcomings and prepare an edited version zero.

• Phase 3 - Version zero of the report. In mid-February, version zero was sent to all participants in the monitoring campaigns. A deadline was set of 11 April.

• Phase 4 - Final version. The final version was produced using the contributions, together with the data collected during the 2012 monitoring campaign.

The drafting was carried out by the INSPIRE monitoring team of the IGN (Regional

Service in Catalonia, Barcelona) under the supervision of the TWG on Monitoring and Reporting.

Once each chapter had been drafted it was published on the Group's coordination site for comments within the TWG.

In addition to the above contributions, the drafting team took account of the documentation produced in the eight IDEE WG meetings that took place over 2010-2012, the papers presented in the three JIIDEs in the same period and various documents relating to the development of SDI in Spain. It has also used the information published in the catalogues compiled by the IDEE geo-portal in SobreIDEs monthly newsletter published by the IDEE WG in the blog of the IDEE and the three INSPIRE monitoring campaigns in Spain.


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4. Coordination and quality assurance

4.1 Coordination

The development of SDIs in Spain has been promoted by the CSG since 2002, when the IDEE WG was set up within EC IDE. From its inception, it was defined as an open technical group, composed of academic experts, private-sector professionals and representatives of producers of geographic information, both for reference and thematic, at state, regional and local levels. The IDEE WG has become an enriching space for communication and participation that has fostered the creation of geo-portals and the publication of data through interoperable web services.

The LISIGE was enacted in July 2010, which modernised state legislation on the production of geographic information. Among other things, the LISIGE regulated the setting-up of CODIIGE and assigned it the responsibility for introducing the implementing rules of the INSPIRE Directive in Spain. The CODIIGE was established in April 2011, took responsibility for CE IDE and IDEE WG, and immediately began to define the GTTs tasked with analysing the implementation of INSPIRE by the Spanish public administrations and assisting its agencies and bodies to comply with the Directive.

HIGHER GEOGRAPHIC COUNCIL

Bodies

Plenary

Technical Secretari

at

Standing Committ

ee

Specialist Committees

CODIIGE

Executive Council for Spanish Geographic Information Infrastructure

Advisory

Committee

Regional Committee

Technical Working

Groups

Geodetic

Systems

Geographic

al Names

Geographical

Standards

National

Mapping Plan

Land

Observation

Spatial Data

Infrastructures

IDEE WG

Working

Subgroups Forums

Figure 1. CSG structure after the LISIGE. The position of CODIIGE and its relationship with CE IDE are highlighted.

Both the Central State Administration bodies involved in producing geographic data and the Autonomous Communities have simultaneously developed their own organisational structures. In the following paragraphs all the organisational structures are described as a whole and listed individually in summary form in section 10.1 'List of Organisations'.


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1.1.1 Member State contact point

Name and contact information

Name of public authority Consejo Superior Geográfico (Higher Geographic Council)

Contact information:

Postal address: Secretaría Técnica del Consejo Superior Geográfico Instituto Geográfico Nacional General Ibañez de Íbero, 3 28003 – Madrid

Telephone number

Fax number

E-mail

URL of the organisation's website

http://www.fomento.es/MFOM/LANG_CASTELLANO/DIRECCIONES_GENERALES/ORGANOS_COLEGIADOS/CRF/ (link)

Contact person Sebastián Mas Mayoral

E-mail [email protected]

Telephone number +34 91 5979646

Deputy contact person Antonio Rodríguez Pascual



Table 1. Member State contact point.

Role and responsibilities

The CSG is the collegiate governing body of the SCN1, attached to the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport and has an advisory and planning function for geographic information and official mapping.

According to Article 4 of the LISIGE, the CSG is the contact point with the European Commission as per Article 19(2) of the INSPIRE Directive. It is also the coordinating and managing body of the IIGE, so is responsible for setting it up and maintaining it, specifically:

1 The SCN is the binding framework for AGE action on mapping and applies to all the public authorities that voluntarily adopt it as a model of cooperative action. It was established by Royal Decree 1545/2007.


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(a) proposing measures to the competent authorities to be carried out by administrations or public sector bodies to set up the IIGE;

(b) ensuring the accessibility and interoperability of the system; (c) incorporating the contributions of other producers or suppliers.

4.1.2 Coordination structure Name and contact information

Name of public authority

Consejo Directivo de la Infraestructura de Información Geográfica de España (CODIIGE)

Contact information:

Street address: Secretaría Técnica del Consejo Superior Geográfico Instituto Geográfico Nacional General Ibañez de Íbero, 3 28003 – Madrid

Telephone number

Fax number

E-mail

URL of the organisation's website

http://www.fomento.gob.es/MFOM/LANG_CASTELLANO/O RGANOS_COLEGIADOS/CSG/ORGANOS/CDirectivoIGeo grafica.htm (link)

Contact person Sebastián Mas Mayoral



Deputy contact person Antonio Rodríguez Pascual



Table 2. Coordination structure supporting the contact point in the Member State.

Role and responsibilities

Pursuant to Article 28 of the SCN, the CODIIGE is responsible for the coordination, control and management of the IIGE.

The CODIIGE is also responsible for:

(a) Proposing measures to the CSG, through its Standing Committee, to be carried out by administrations or public sector bodies to set up the IIGE.


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(b) Proposing to the CSG, through its Standing Committee, the programme of action and work to enable the IIGE to be set up and put into effective operation, and proposing to each administration or public-sector body a model for funding it and taking part in it.

(c) Assisting the CSG in the tasks of:

(a) Ensuring that the public authorities set up geographic information infrastructures incorporating geographic data and interoperable geographic information services under their responsibility, ensuring that they are accessible and interoperable through the IIGE network.

(b) Facilitating the incorporation into the IIGE of contributions of geographic data and interoperable geographic information services from other producers and suppliers of value-added services. And receiving, analysing and incorporating, where appropriate, contributions of previous systems and of users, in general, on current practices, user needs and feedback on the implementation of the law.

(c) Acting as contact point with the European Commission in connection with the INSPIRE Directive.

(d) Assisting the Technical Secretariat in the exercise of its duties, in relation to the IIGE, pursuant to Article 29(4) of the SCN.

(e) Making proposals to the competent authorities on the rules for management and implementation, sharing policy, access to and use of data and services and policy for transfer, distribution and dissemination of information.

(f) Any other duties entrusted to it by the Standing Committee or the Plenary Body.

The CODIIGE includes members of the CSG expert committees on both SDI and geographic information standards, and the three levels of administration must be represented on it.

To that end, the CODIIGE comprises:

(a) a President, who shall be the President of the CE IDE;

(b) a Vice-President, who shall be the President of the Specialist Geographic Standards Committee;

(c) a second Vice-president, who shall be the President of the Specialist Geographic Names Committee or of the Specialist National Mapping Plan Committee, who may deputise for one another;

(d) A secretary, who shall be a senior official of the IGN; (e) 11 members, all experts in SDI:

(a) 2 representatives of the Central State Administration, on a proposal of the Standing Committee;


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(b) 5 representatives of the Autonomous Communities, on a proposal of the Regional Committee;

(c) 1 representative of the Local Administration, on a proposal of the Regional Committee;

(d) 3 members elected by the Standing Committee from among the managers of nodes or geo-portals integrated into the IDEE.

The duties of the CODIIGE also include the direction of the CE IDE, focusing its activities through the IDEE WG.

4.1.3 Relations with third parties and summary of working methods and procedures

Relations with third parties are handled at state level, in two different environments, distinguished from one another by their executive capacity. As we have seen, firstly the mechanisms dealing with relations between public bodies, universities and the private sector that take place in the framework provided by the IDEE WG are continuing on the basis of a long tradition. Around the IDEE WG, open forums have emerged, meetings and workshops are organised, knowledge is exchanged and the JIIDE seminars are held. Secondly, since 2010 the management structure of the IIGE headed by CODIIGE has been taking shape. It has mainly executive and management functions, and focuses primarily on official producers of geographic information. In both areas, a major effort goes into relations between the various players, both contributors to the SDIs in Spain in general and those responsible for meeting the demand of INSPIRE in particular.

Mention should also be made of the structures for coordinating and handling relations with third parties that have been formed both within state bodies and within the administrations of the Autonomous Communities. Accordingly, we make a distinction between the following components:

i. CODIIGE

ii. IDEE WG

iii. AGE coordination structures

iv. Coordination structures of the Autonomous Communities

i. CODIIGE

Since it was established in April 2011, the CODIIGE met in July and November 2011 and in April, July and October 2012. The initial meetings defined the TWGs, standardisation groups tasked with analysing the application of the INSPIRE Implementing Rules by the Spanish Government and helping its agencies and bodies to achieve compliance with those rules. The guidelines, methodologies, classifications, nomenclatures, codes, etc. that promote the standardisation of the IIGE content defined by the TWGs will be proposed to the CODIIGE so that it can forward them to the CSG, as it deems appropriate, in line with its standard approval procedure.


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The TWGs represent all players with responsibility for both the data and the services required by INSPIRE (table 3).

• Metadata and catalogue

• Monitoring and reporting

• Network architecture, standards and services

• Data and service policy

• Geodetic Reference System / Official Coordinates System

• Geographical names

• Territorial and administrative boundaries

• Addresses and street directory

• Local authorities

• Hydrography

• Transport networks

• Protected sites (historical and cultural heritage)

• Protected sites (environment)

• Cadastral parcel

• Digital elevation models

• Orthoimagery

• Land use

• Geology

• Population entities

Table 3. List of TWGs at 15 May 2013.

Each TWG is assigned a coordinator and is free to organise itself as it sees fit to respond to questions posed by the CODIIGE. A number of TWGs were set up in 2012 and have begun to participate in INSPIRE Monitoring and Reporting tasks.


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ii. IDEE WG

IDEE WG currently involves 344 people linked to more than 160 Spanish organisations and maintains a workflow consisting of regular meetings, in which technical presentations are given, recommendations for implementing SDI projects in Spain are agreed and approved, experiences are exchanged and progress on the IDEE project and other national, regional and local IDE projects is reported. The IDEE WG met eight times during 2010-2012 (Table 4).

25/02/2010 Madrid

14/05/2010 Mérida

29/10/2010 Lisbon

18/03/2011 Barcelona

29/04/2011 Jaén

11/11/2011 Barcelona

13/04/2012 Madrid

19/10/2012 Madrid

Table 4. List of IDEE WG meetings in 2010-2012.

JIIDE annual congresses were held in the period 2010-2012. They replaced the Seminars on the Spatial Data Infrastructure of Spain, based on the same model and extending it to Portugal and Andorra, in cooperation with the respective geographic information authorities (table 5). :

27-29/10/2010 Lisbon JIIDE I

09-11/11/2011 Barcelona JIIDE II

17-19/10/2012 Madrid JIIDE III

Table 5. List of JIIDE seminars in the period 2010-2012.

The IDEE WG has currently set up the working subgroups listed in table 6.

• SGT1. Reference data and thematic data

• SGT2. Metadata

• SGT3. Architecture and standards

• SGT4. Data policy


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• SGT6. SDI observatory

• SGT7. UNSDI coordination office

• SGT8. Data catalogue

• SGT9. Legal security in spatial information

• SGT10. Mapping heritage in the SDI

• SGT11. Local SDI

• SGT12. Historic heritage

Table 6. List of the IDEE WG working subgroups at 15 May 2013.

SGTs are free to choose their composition, issues to be discussed, working methods and the respective objectives. The results of the SGTs are presented in meetings of the IDEE WG, which can propose them to the CSG for approval as Recommendations.

In view of the overlap with the newly created TWGs, the CE IDE is encouraging the conversion of the SGTs into forums, which are more open and participatory structures. Moreover, forums have a much more open organisational format than the SGTs, allowing a wider range of themes and participants. A good example is the ILAF OGC, a forum promoted by the OGC to encourage participation by the Spanish-, Portuguese- and Catalan-speaking community in the development of standards and other related activities. ILAF OGC has its own dynamics, its own aims and its own links within its international sphere of action.

During the period 2010-2012, the forums listed in Table 7 were active.

• Metadata forum

• ILAF OGC

• Addresses forum

• Universities forum

Table 7. List of forums active during the period 2010-2012.

iii. AGE coordination structures

In the Central State Administration bodies, there are three types of coordination structures involved in implementing INSPIRE

I - The National Mapping Plan

The National Mapping Plan is Defined in the LISIGE as an official map production planning tool produced by the AGE. It must include the technical production standards, a


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proposal of the competent authorities, and the approval, harmonisation and coordination criteria for production by administrations integrated into the SCN. To that end, cooperation mechanisms will be established with the Mapping Plan of the Armed Forces and the plans approved by the Autonomous Communities.

During 2012, information was collected from the various AGE bodies producing geographic information, in which they were asked about the data and services they manage and their future plans in this area.

II - Interinstitutional coordination structures

For ministries or bodies managing multiple institutions, there is a need to establish an organisational structure to coordinate their production activities related to geographic information.

In 2012, MAGRAMA set up a Working Group for the Coordination of Geographic Information Services, composed of representatives of the Under-Secretariat, the State Secretariat for Environment, the General Secretariat for Agriculture and Food, the General Secretariat for Fisheries and the autonomous bodies. Its first task was to collect the SDSs that the Ministry must provide to comply with INSPIRE.

The CSIC is a similar example, with various groups and research in a number of centres and institutes, and geo-portals openly publishing geospatial information online with SDI specifications and protocols. The Centre for Human and Social Sciences has taken on a coordinating role, starting with the collection of information used as an INSPIRE reference. 'Introduction to SDI' training courses were given to staff throughout the CSIC.

III - Intra-institutional coordination structures

Within each institution it has also been necessary to coordinate the activities of its various units for adapting to INSPIRE. This is the case for IGME, which in 2012 launched an internal project involving experts from the various disciplines covered by the Directive, both technical and thematic. Its main objective is to implement INSPIRE in the Institute. In addition to the purely technical and conceptual issues, the implementation process took account of training in and raising awareness of the Directive among technicians.

iv. Coordination structures of the Autonomous Communities

In exercising their powers, the Autonomous Communities manage a large amount of geographic information across multiple institutions, which has led to the need to coordinate and plan their management, and define contact points for statewide coordination. Moreover, the role of the Autonomous Communities is to coordinate their activities with those carried out by the Local Government and channel all the information collected.

This coordination takes several forms. They are set out in section 10.1.2 of this document. Broadly, they fall into three main types.


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Autonomous Communities that have established coordination structures to manage geographic information production:

• In Andalusia, the Andalusian Council of Statistics and Mapping.

• In Aragon, Aragon Mapping Council.

• In Catalonia, C4.

• In Castile-Leon, the Castile-Leon Mapping Council.

• In Extremadura, the Extremadura Regional Mapping Information Council.

• In Galicia, the Geographic and Mapping Information Coordinating Committee.

• In Navarre, SITNA.

• In the Basque Country, the Basque Government has set up the Steering Committee, the Technical Committee and the Interdepartmental Information Committee for the SDI of the Basque Country, to coordinate them, chaired by the Basque Government Mapping Service under the Department of Regional Planning and Urban Development.

The following Autonomous Communities have entrusted a specific institution with such coordination:

• In Asturias, the Mapping Centre.

• In Rioja, the Geographic and Mapping Information Systems Section of the Spatial Planning Service (Directorate-General for Urban Development and Housing).

• In Madrid, the Regional Mapping Information Centre, under the Directorate-General for Urban Planning and Spatial Development (Regional Department of Environment and Spatial Planning).

Autonomous Communities in which coordination takes place within the framework of their SDI project management:

• In Valencia, the IDECV.

• In the Balearic Islands, the IDEIB.

4.1.4 Comments on the monitoring and reporting process

The monitoring and reporting activities were carried out in accordance with the timetable, instructions and the tools provided by the EC INSPIRE Team. The results are available on the IDEE geo-portal and the INSPIRE portal (Muñoz and Capdevila, 2012).

At the organisational level, it fell to the IGN as Technical Secretariat of the CSG to conduct and coordinate the monitoring and reporting process. Later, with the enactment of the LISIGE and the establishment of the CODIIGE, the Monitoring and Reporting


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TWG was set up in 2011 to take over that duty. The monitoring process has changed as new organisational structures have been set up:

• Monitoring for 2010 was carried out from 29 March to 15 May 2011. As support tools

a wiki was introduced with instructions, and Excel spreadsheets were distributed similar to the one provided by the EC INSPIRE Team but translated and broken down by theme and type of service. Fifteen AGE bodies and 17 Autonomous Communities took part. In total, 7289 records were reported. The instructions provided to the participating bodies were only those of the EC INSPIRE Team. Only the format of the content was checked, not its conformity with the data specifications. At the CODIIGE meeting in July 2011 it was concluded that monitoring for 2010 showed that while a lot of data and services were available, there was a marked lack of organisation in the way information was structured and a serious lack of understanding of the INSPIRE requirements. To tackle this it was proposed, among other things, to request additional data in order to monitor and improve the quality of INSPIRE compliance.

• Monitoring for 2011, carried out in 2012, coincided with the appearance of the TWGs, including the Monitoring and Reporting TWG. The process began in February and ended on 15 May. It was supported by a wiki with instructions and new Excel sheets were distributed with additional columns approved by CODIIGE. Eight AGE bodies and 17 Autonomous Communities took part. 6089 records were reported. In March, the TWGs were asked to analyse the data received in the first phase of consultation. Based on their conclusions, some rules were laid down at the April CODIIGE meeting for filtering the information received. This explains why fewer records were reported than were initially received. CODIIGE is nevertheless aware that the response still falls short of how INSPIRE should be developing in Spain.

Monitoring for 2012, carried out in 2013, incorporated a new web tool, Gestor S&I (Monitoring and Reporting Manager), designed to be a tool for coordinating between the Monitoring and Reporting TWG and the participating bodies. Gestor S&I replaced the previous wiki and was introduced in early March. Gestor S&I allowed the times of the various phases of the monitoring timetable to be checked and incorporated a system for validating the format of the information provided, which reduced the number of incidents of this type detected in relation to previous years. As in 2011, the CODIIGE TWGs reviewed the SDSs and services of their areas of competence, notifying bodies of any content incidents they detected. The Technical Working Group on the Geodetic Reference System / Official Coordinates System, which handles themes 1 and 2 of Annex I, felt that there was no need to report SDSs because this is not required by Regulation 1089/2010. Other TWGs produced lists with the SDSs that they considered should be reported, in some cases on a mandatory basis and in others exclusively. The TWG on Network Architecture, Standards and Services placed special emphasis on reporting only on services that complied with the semantics and performance specifications laid down in Regulation (EC) No 976/2009 and Regulation (EU) No 1088/2010. Eight AGE bodies and 17 Autonomous Communities took part. In total, 5979 records were reported. Regarding the INSPIRE Report for 2010-2012, the Monitoring and Reporting TWG divided the drafting process into four phases, as described in chapter 3 above. In general, the following findings were noted during the monitoring and reporting process:


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• In the monitoring process, AGE bodies and the Autonomous Communities are continuing to report records with content that does not comply with INSPIRE.

• The participation of the TWGs, as specialists for selecting the information collected, is essential. All this information has been collected in different ways depending on the type of partner: AGE body, TWG or Autonomous Community.

AGE bodies have reported on the basis of the documentation provided by the Monitoring and Reporting TWG in the official request for the data. A particular case is the CSIC, as it is considered a producer of scientific data but does not have administrative powers in the fields covered by those data. Therefore, the data generated as part of CSIC activity are often not regarded as official. Yet the data are generated by an official body, tally with the INSPIRE themes and are considered of interest. The CSIC has a number of research groups in various centres and institutes, with geo-portals2 openly publishing geospatial information online compliant with SDI specifications and protocols. The working procedure for reporting on this has been to collect information from each of the centres by filling in the Excel files and supporting documentation provided by the Monitoring and Reporting TWG, using the tools made available by the EC INSPIRE Team.

The TWGs are restricted to reviewing and analysing the SDSs submitted by the Monitoring and Reporting TWG for their theme. Each TWG establishes its own coordination mechanisms based on the requirements laid down by the CODIIGE. For example, the Hydrography TWG conducted the monitoring and reporting process by coordinating between representatives of SDI nodes of river basin organisations and water boards and various departments of the Directorate-General for Water.

The Autonomous Communities operate in three ways:

• In Andalusia, the INSPIRE monitoring and reporting process is implemented through GT-IDEAndalucía. Those responsible for the various nodes provide the relevant information, which is homogenised and integrated by the IECA Geographic Infrastructure Service, and then sent to CODIIGE. The results of the monitoring and reporting process are taken into account by the Working Group itself and the Interdepartmental Statistics and Mapping Committee. Similarly, data listings and services produced in the monitoring process are made coherent with the contents of the Spatial Data Catalogue of Andalusia and the Interoperable Service Catalogue.

• In Aragon, the INSPIRE monitoring and reporting process is handled each year by the CINTA which reports on the data set and mapping services managed by any department or public body of the Aragon Government.

• In Catalonia, the ICC, in its ongoing support role for the C4, conducts the entire annual monitoring process, which involves gathering information from all the bodies in Catalonia (31 bodies consulted), entering the information on the appropriate forms and sending the completed forms to the Monitoring and Reporting TWG. In the case of spatial data sets and services, in the first instance, it consults the list of existing SDSs in the PCC catalogue, as this is the basic information that the Catalonia public administrations need and produce to carry out their duties. This allows it to assess and

2 The 'Websites' section of chapter 10.2 lists the geo-portals managed by the CSIC.


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monitor territorial coverage, and check whether or not there are metadata and services associated with the data. Regarding network services, it enquires about the services reported by the consulted bodies, in addition to those in the IDEC catalogue.

• In Extremadura the process is coordinated by the CICTEx, which forwards surveys for the collection of INSPIRE indicators to the various departments providing SDSs and network services. Prior to sending the information to the Monitoring and Reporting TWG, CICTEx carries out a filtering and homogenisation process.

• In Galicia, the process takes the form of an information letter to the local government departments of Galicia. The letter requests information on their spatial data sets and services that are available to users.

• In Navarre, monitoring of data, metadata and INSPIRE services is entrusted to the public company Tracasa, which has been handling the process since 2010. On the basis of the SITNA (Navarre) SDS inventory, the data sets that tally with the themes of the Directive are selected and studied and, with the help of representatives of the Navarre public administration in the thematic working groups, responsibility for the information layers is established. Contributions to the INSPIRE report are analysed and approved by the bodies referred to above.

• In Rioja, the organisational structure established for producing/publishing geographic information as well as the size of the institution, which covers a single province, allow monitoring and reporting to be approached from a general perspective, with no need to delegate data collection to other departments or institutions.

• In Valencia, the services that have been set up or approved are monitored by the IDECV. It detects any duplicated publication of spatial data services, since some users have the data and decide to publish them even if they do not own them. We do not know whether there are any spatial data services outside the scope of the Regional Government. We do know, however, that there are intranet services that have not been included in the national monitoring file because access is restricted and/or the data are duplicated.

• In the Balearic Islands, SDI data are collected by SITIBSA, the public company responsible for producing and distributing maps. The information is collected from the Government of the Balearic Islands and the Island Councils.

• In the Basque Country, this process is performed by the Basque Government Mapping Service (Department of Regional and Urban Planning).


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4.2 Quality assurance

The logical path for quality assurance involves establishing, firstly, rules defining the product and service; secondly, procedures to measure and guarantee the quality defined above, and finally, a certification mechanism that officially validates the achievement of the required quality levels.

Quality assurance is not covered by the INSPIRE rules. The thematic guidelines define some aspects of what is considered quality in each case. However, there are no defined procedures to measure and guarantee quality. Certification is the responsibility of each Member State.

This chapter discusses three aspects of quality:

a) Quality in SDSs, distinguishing aspects affecting the structure (compliance with the data model in the INSPIRE rules) from those affecting the content (degree of compliance with the parameters of precision, accuracy, completeness, etc. of the data).

b) Quality of the metadata, distinguishing, as in the previous case, between structure and content.

c) Quality of services, distinguishing between the quality in performance (requirement to comply with the INSPIRE network services rules) and the functionality for each type of INSPIRE service (basically interoperability requirements).

Quality assurance falls to three main groups of players:

The CODIIGE and the TWGs. Their mission is to ensure smooth operation of the IIGE, so they must publicise the INSPIRE rules and certify compliance with them.

The various coordination structures of the AGE and Autonomous Communities, which inherit the INSPIRE requirement and CODIIGE decisions and are in contact with the producers of data and services.

The data producers and services which must comply with the INSPIRE rules.

The work of the TWGs is still at a very embryonic stage and they are beginning to face the challenges of quality assurance. The TWG on Geographical Names has taken over the quality criteria recommended by INSPIRE and added thematic accuracy (spelling errors and variants). It now has to establish quality thresholds for these parameters and, in general, procedures for evaluating them. However, the TWG finds that the work needed for quality assurance is very expensive.

Regarding the other coordination structures, their responses vary but do have some points in common:

• The quality requirement is typically transferred to data producers in compliance with the requirements of the technical specifications.


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• Quality assurance with regard to the structure of the metadata is performed by using templates or suitable metadata editing software.

• The quality assurance functionality in some types of services is performed by using the validation tool on the INSPIRE geo-portal.

We would highlight the following issues:

• In Andalusia, under Decree 141/2006, the Andalusia Mapping Plan for 2009 sets out the principles for quality assurance while the Draft Statistics and Mapping Plan for Andalusia 2013-2017 defines a set of strategies including 'standardisation and quality assurance', and section 5a covers 'Standardisation and Quality of Information'. In order to standardise the procedure to guarantee and document the quality of spatial data and services, at its meeting on 23 September 2011, the Interdepartmental Statistics and Mapping Committee approved the relevant Technical Mapping Standards for Andalusia, entitled NTCA-01002-Quality assurance and NTCA-01003-Quality documentation. The documentation on the quality levels of geographic information is produced at two levels. Prior to production, there must be a technical report for each mapping activity, specifying the methodology to be used, expected results and quality checks to be conducted. Once the mapping activity has been completed, the metadata describing the data produced include references to the quality of the product, lineage at least being included in the mandatory metadata in the Spatial Data Catalogue for Andalusia.

• In Aragon, under Decree 208/2010, and after the approval of the PCA for 2013-2016 by resolution of the Governing Council dated 6 March 2013, the NCA was drafted, which defines the quality parameters for geographic metadata, data and services. Accordingly, the minimum technical specifications that each unit producing mapping information must meet for it to be published on the IDEAragon node will be adapted or defined (which implies that the current SITAR must evolve appropriately).

• In Catalonia, Law 16/2005 and implementing Decree 398/2006, together with the PCC, lay down a general definition of the basic quality assurance procedures for spatial data sets and services. These rules provide that the official mapping and official geographic information in Catalonia must be used by all Catalan government bodies when producing new maps, and in the exercise of the powers of the Regional Government, local authorities and other public bodies in Catalonia, where geographic information is required for that purpose.

4.2.1 Quality-assurance procedures

The CODIIGE has yet to define any quality-assurance procedures.

The other coordination structures and producers of data and services can be divided into three classes:

1. Those with procedures in place

2. Those with no procedures in place but with quality standards

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4.2.1.1 With procedures in place

The IGME metadata structure: has defined a specific profile that complies with ISO, NEM and INSPIRE; reviews the form (XML structure, compliance with regulations) and content of what is generated; and validates the XML file with the 'INSPIRE Metadata Validator' application.

Regarding the actual SDSs, a procedure called VIG has been devised to check aspects of compliance with the GEODE model and geometry.

In Andalusia, the procedures are set out in the NTCA-01002-Quality Assurance standard, which takes over the procedures of the following ISO standards: ISO 19113: Quality principles, ISO 19114: Quality evaluation procedures, ISO 19138: Data quality measures and ISO 19131: Data product specifications.

In Aragon, account is taken of the communications received and management of incidents reported by users, both within and outside the administration. Furthermore, after the approval of the NCA (scheduled to take place in late 2013 or early 2014) mapping information published on IDEAragon will comply with the minimum quality requirements for metadata (Inspire profile), SDSs (NCA or technical specifications for mapping products or sectoral standards for administrative units or public bodies of the Government of Aragon for mapping information products) and services (ISO 19119).

The IDEIB guarantees quality in the performance of services using the Nagios monitoring tool.

In Catalonia there are two mechanisms for performing quality assurance:

The C4 formalises the technical specifications of each product, which incorporate quality requirements for each of them. At 31/12/2012, a total of 15 technical specifications for SDSs had been formalised. The technical specifications are also normalised by that Committee, and were drafted in accordance with ISO 19100.

The RCC conducts a quality control for all geographic information offered for entry in this registry. This quality control is carried out by the ICC, which determines the final quality rating after reviewing the geographical information, the technical specifications and the metadata file.

The ICC has implemented support tools with a view to improving the quality of the data and associated metadata. Thus a metadata capture and editing program, MetaD, is being developed, now in version 4.0, for editing and exporting metadata with the profile defined by IDEC (subset of ISO 19115 with ISO 19139 implementation). Support and assistance with installing and using the program are also being offered.

In Extremadura quality assurance is conducted as follows:

• For data sets. The data produced by the CICTEx follow quality control processes, at each stage, through custom development and final supervision by operators. Data sets produced externally are subject to quality controls to ensure positional quality and a certain thematic logic.


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• For metadata: CatMDEdit is used to validate the NEM and ISO 19115 profiles.

• For services: monitoring to detect faults and corporate alarm system.

In Galicia, contributions are validated in relation to the requirements in the relevant contract specifications. CatMDEdit is used for metadata.

In Madrid the companies that handle map updating contracts observe specific quality

control procedures to ensure compliance with contract specifications. The Regional Mapping Information Centre monitors the work submitted by checks in the office of each map sheet, visually checking the position and content of the new elements in relation to the orthophotographs, and carrying out any necessary fieldwork to check geographical names.

In Navarre, metadata structure is guaranteed using templates and the INSPIRE

validator. For SDSs, the data catalogue and a GIS metacatalogue are used as tools. The first helps to organise information and avoid duplicates or inconsistencies and assign the correct ownerships. The second allows each datum entered into the system to be adapted to a common data model, thereby guaranteeing logical and thematic quality parameters. The GIS loading tools used incorporate topological validation components to prevent incorrect elements, duplicates, etc. The information entered is always reviewed and analysed by those responsible (the only ones allowed to enter information in SITNA) before final publication. The intensive use of all this information by a wide variety of users is another means of quality control for the information published. For the quality of services there is an automated procedure consisting of periodic requests to the most used services to ensure proper operation (search of metadata, map requests, capabilities, etc.). It also checks that the response time does not exceed a certain limit.

In Rioja, controls are carried out of the geometric quality (using a 1:5 000 topographical map as a reference), of the topology - using automated procedures, of the integrity of the database into which it is loaded, and of the semantics - using a system of validation rules. Citizens' feedback is also used as a monitoring and verification mechanism. The metadata structure is checked by a template in an tool incorporated into the database. In terms of services, there is informal monitoring of their activities (interaction with users, etc.).

In Valencia, metadata structure is checked using XML templates in Geonetwork and the metadata validation options. The performance of the services is verified by testing the capacity of the discovery and visualisation services and by ensuring availability by the use of three replicated servers.

In the Basque Country, the Basque Government Mapping Service validates contributions of information to the Basque SDI. Metadata are incorporated by means of a template and are generated and validated using CatMDEdit. Basic mapping has its own specific quality controls (geometric, topological and semantic, as applicable), and it falls to the various departments to ensure the quality of the information that they produce. Some general checks are nevertheless carried out before data are loaded into the Basque SDI: nomenclature, reference system, geometric matching to the reference scale, geometry verification, unjustified gaps or overlaps and semantic checks of null values. Regarding network services, there is a monitoring service that analyses the availability of SDI services. Moreover, the accessibility and the free dissemination of the Basque SDI is


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generating many external consultations which also helps the quality of information and services to be improved.

4.2.1.2 No procedures in place but with technical quality standards

MAGRAMA has established a set of standards to be met for the implementation of any GIS in the Ministry. These standards include: delivery formats, geodetic reference systems and use of official data sources.

For metadata, MAGRAMA has developed a common metadata template for the entire Ministry and requires the information layers that are incorporated into a GIS to include the relevant metadata.

Apart from the VIG procedure mentioned above, IGME has two technical quality control manuals for 1:50 000 scale digital geological information. The Institute intends to merge and expand procedures and technical manuals for use in monitoring the SDSs adapted to the relevant specifications.

Galicia is planning to carry out quality control on the performance of the services.

4.2.1.3 With technical quality standards in preparation

Aragon is drafting the NCA.

The other nodes have yet to prepare the necessary internal regulations.

4.2.2 Analysis of quality-assurance problems

Information producers have reached the following conclusions.

(A) The main problem regarding quality assurance of data is cost.

Large volumes of data have to be managed in complex production processes with a strict requirement to be up to date. In many cases, the quality check should be done in the field, which is very costly.

(B) Quality parameters have not yet been established to describe the quality of the SDSs.

The INSPIRE technical manuals do not contain quality-assurance procedures and this section is missing from many of the procurement specifications or technical requirements for SDSs.

(C) Data of diverse origins

To comply with the data models required by INSPIRE, in many cases data will have to be provided from different sources, obtained by a variety of procedures and with varying quality requirements and control.

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(E) Lack of a metric for the quality assurance of services.

4.2.3 Measures taken to improve quality assurance

In the light of the above we conclude that there is still a significant lack of reference standards regarding quality. Accordingly, quality-assurance procedures are few and far between.

An interesting development in Catalonia is Decree 62/2010 defining and identifying the SDSs produced and used by the AGC and local government. It determines the structure, quality, availability, interoperability, updating and conditions of access to the SDS. The Decree, together with Law 16/2005 and implementing Decree 398/2006, defines the mechanisms needed for the approval of specifications and standards, and the creation of support tools with a view to improving the quality of data and metadata, and fosters the creation of working groups to define, implement and disseminate them.

On the other hand, the current economic climate is still hindering the necessary developments and their implementation.

The most common measures are the use of metadata templates and editing software, with the aim of ensuring that the metadata provided are properly structured. This strategy is being widely used for SDS metadata. Services metadata, however, are not yet sufficiently established and we are still observing discrepancies between the metadata and the information provided by the service (capabilities). Navarre focuses on training those responsible for filling in these metadata.

The gradual implementation of coordination structures will also allow improved quality assurance since it will address this issue in a much more specific way. For example, MAGRAMA is standardising and integrating both existing geographic information in the Ministry and the systems used to manage it, for which is proving crucial to implement a corporate GIS platform supported by standard web services. Some Autonomous Communities, such as Galicia and Navarre, are also opting for this strategy.

Andalusia is focusing on documentation on lineage and product quality, which is essential.

The Balearic Islands and Rioja place great importance on user participation in the improvement process.

4.2.4 Quality certification mechanisms

Many of the players in the management of public geographic information are considering setting up official registries, in which the quality of the data collected must be ensured. However, most of them are not yet operational.

The RCC, set up by Law 16/2005, is the official body certifying the quality of mapping and geographic information in Catalonia, since, prior to registration, all information submitted to the registry is subject to quality control by the ICC, in regard to data, specifications and metadata. On 31 December 2012, the official section of the registry contained a total of 26 315 registered official items. Also, some entities responsible for SDSs in Catalonia submit their data to ISO certification bodies.


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This comment is a general reflection of the situation in Andalusia: 'the infrastructure here is at an early stage and our strategy is to foster the emergence of all available information, regardless of quality, because applying strict criteria would slow down the development of the SDI'.


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5. Operation and coordination of infrastructure

5.1 Overview of the spatial data infrastructures

The LISIGE states that the IIGE is composed of the set of interoperable geographic information infrastructures and services available in Spanish territory, the territorial sea, the contiguous zone, the continental shelf and the exclusive economic zone, generated by or under the responsibility of the public administration.3

This indicates a clear commitment by the Spanish government to SDI. The CSG has sought to stimulate its deployment by creating the IDEE WG with a clear vision to serve as a reference for the Spanish SDI community and the JIIDE seminars. With this vision, the IDEE geo-portal and IDEE blog were launched and a monthly electronic newsletter on SDIs is published. To quote the State of Play report for Spain, 2011 (Vandenbroucke et al, 2011:6):

‘Concluding, the Spanish SDI is considered one of the most developed ones in Europe with a very active SDI and INSPIRE-minded community at all governmental levels. This is mainly due to a good coordination, cooperation and agreement at all levels of the government and with all the stakeholders of the NSDI network.’

In 2010-2012, this dynamic continued, together with the setting-up of coordination structures for implementing INSPIRE. The same State of Play report comments that:

'Although the NSDI is clearly leading, all stakeholders work on the basis of equality and partnership and see each other as an equal node in the SDI network. The Spanish SDI has been launched with no fixed regulations (...)’

Furthermore, the various players are defining their roles in more detail as they set up geo-portals, web services, etc. In November 2011, AGE launched the MAGRAMA SDI portal with the aim of providing a national and European reference node for geographic and environmental information, together with information relating to agricultural, livestock and fisheries resources.

A similar development is taking place to varying extents across the Autonomous Communities. Noteworthy during this period was the formal participation of all of them (except Catalonia) in the SCN and the adoption of specific legislation by Aragon (Decree 208/2010). Valencia is concerned to train regional government technicians in INSPIRE compliance, how to clearly define what data to publish and the IT details necessary to meet the requirements of the Directive.

Each Autonomous Community has at least one reference geo-portal, which over time are consolidating as essential elements of SDI roll-out in Spain. But apart from the reference geo-portal of each regional SDI, the organisation, design and contents vary from one to another. Here are two different examples:

3 This definition tallies with that already established by Royal Decree 1545/2007, the difference being the change of name from INIG to IIGE.


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SDI development in Catalonia is driven by the CSIDEC, attached to the ICC, which provides the necessary technical support for its organisation, development, operation and maintenance. Its purpose is to disseminate geo-information and related services, to ensure that they are more accessible and hence easier to share. The CSIDEC maintains a metadata catalogue service, which is public, into which data producers and services, both public and private, can feed the metadata they generate. This service acts as a central node in the Catalonia region, contains a dedicated database and is linked to the catalogues of other bodies and organisations. The CSIDEC is also responsible for the IDEC geo-portal, which hosts all the information related to SDIs; it can be used to view standard OGC WMS services and consult the above-mentioned metadata catalogue. The principles underlying the IDEC are non-duplication and easy access and sharing of geo-information. IDEC development has followed two strategic strands:

• Promotion of SDIs that are themed or specialise in specific domains, stimulating the creation of nodes that allow the global network of providers of SDSs and services to expand. Each node is seen by the end user with the required specific sectoral and specialised view.

• Integration between local bodies, thanks to the initiatives promoted by the AOC or the Barcelona Provincial Council and some municipalities.

The Rioja SDI aggregates the services offered by the Rioja Government and 172 of the 174 municipalities in the region. All services operate using the content of the corporate spatial database of the Rioja Government. The various players can maintain and manage the information they generate using graphic and text-based editing tools that are accessed over the internet. The Rioja Government maintains a public geo-portal which offers information about and access to those services, which are based on OGC and ISO standards. The geo-portal also offers view services and a geographic display (Geovisor) has been developed that can be adapted to different thematic and territorial environments, enabling each municipality to embed the display via a link on its own website, adapted to its own territory. Over the next two years, Aragon will carry out the logical transformation of SITAR to IDEAragon, which involves updating both the metadata and geo-data in line with the established performance standards, and of non-interoperable geographic services into interoperable web services, with the goal of the public administration delivering better services.

5.2 INSPIRE players and their roles

In the current state of implementation of the INSPIRE Directive, it is too early to speak of a clear distinction between INSPIRE players and SDI players. It is to be hoped, as specific responsibilities are established and services are consolidated, that the roles of the various SDI players in relation to INSPIRE will be clarified.

For now, two main groups can be distinguished:

• Those which have been directly related to INSPIRE or have shown interest in being. These include experts who have taken part in the INSPIRE working groups, and organisations approved as INSPIRE LMOs and SDICs.

• Those involved in SDI development and which may play a role in INSPIRE implementation.


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5.2.1 Players directly related to INSPIRE

The participation of Spanish experts and technicians began with the INSPIRE definition process and then, after it was approved in 2007, Spanish cooperation took a variety of forms: for example, 22 volunteer experts actively participated in the TWGs to draft and discuss drafts of the implementing rules and data specifications of the Directive. In total, they took part in the development of data specifications for five Annex I themes, four drafts of Annex II and 10 of Annex III (Muñoz and Capdevila, 2012).

At the time of writing, 28 Spanish organisations were registered in the portal as INSPIRE SDICs (table 8) and 11 as LMOs (table 9). Most of those registered as SDICs belong to public institutions or bodies (50%) of AGE and the Autonomous Communities, and centres related to research and education. A few are from the private sector. Four of the 28 SDICs are European groups or projects based or registered in Spain, such as EURADIN and the AGILE group. There are also two registered SDICs which are cross-border projects between Spain and Portugal and between Europe and South America. All the LMOs belong to the public sector, except for the JRC-IPTS Competitiveness and Sustainability Unit.

INSPIRE players were asked to forecast which specific roles, divided into nine categories, they would have in INSPIRE development. In the case of the SDICs, first among these roles was collectors and descriptors of user requirements regarding environmental policies (89%), second were participants in review processes (78%) and third, participants in projects to test, review or formulate development rules (61%). Most LMOs (66.7%) opted for participation in review processes, or expert assignments and contributions of material for the drafting teams (50%).

Both SDICs and LMOs report more specific experience in the fields of metadata (79% and 50%) and data specification (75% and 80%). While SDICs (71%) have more experience in network services than LMOs (25%).

Regarding INSPIRE themes, most SDICs (over 60%) claim to be users and a lesser number producers and coordinators. A high proportion of LMOs (83%), on the other hand, describe themselves as users and producers of INSPIRE themes.

• AGILE

• Banco de Datos de la Naturaleza

• Commission on Geographic Norms (National Geographic High Council)

• Consorcio Regional de Transportes de Madrid

• Cross border Data Interes between Spain and Portugal, European Economic Geography,

• Cross border SDIC betwwen Europe and SouthAmerica

• Environmental Information Network of Andalusia

• EURADIN


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• Estandarización Electrónica de Datos Ambientales

• European working group for the soils European study with remote sensing

• Euskal Herriko Datu Espazialen Azpiegitura

• GID Universitat Jaume I

• INM Group for implementation GIS in Climatology and meteorology

• Idearium Consultores

• Indra Espacio S.A.

• Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio

• SITNA

• SIOSE

• ILAF OGC

• Observatorio de los espacios naturales protegidos del Estado español

• Open Architecture and Spatial Data Infrastructure for Risk Management

• Personal GIS OpenSoftware Developer

• Registra, SL

• SDI of Catalonia - network of local authorities

• Sistemas de Información, Gestión y Asesoria

• Social Validation of INSPIRE Annex III Data Structures in EU Habitats

• Spain Railways SDI at Executive Direction of Circulacion (ADIF)

• Spatial Data Infrastructure of Extremadura

Table 8. List of SDICs at 15 May 2013.

• Colegio de Registradores de la Propiedad, Mercantiles y Bienes Muebles de España (Association of Land and Mercantile Registrars of Spain)

• Comissió de Coordinació Cartogràfica de Catalunya (Mapping Coordination Committee of Catalonia)

• Competitiveness and Sustainability Unit, JRC-IPTS


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• Direccion General para la Biodiversidad

• European Land Registry Association (ELRA)

• GT-EIEL

• Dirección General de Catastro

• Government of Rioja

• IDEE Working Group of the Commission on Geomatics (National Geographic High Council)

• ICC

• IGME

Table 9. List of LMOs at 15 May 2013.

5.2.2 Players directly related to IDEE

To describe this group we will consider the following structure in terms of its role in the development and use of SDIs in Spain: coordination mechanisms, data producers, service providers, research centres and users

Coordination mechanisms

At national level, we have already mentioned the coordinating role of the CSG, performed by CODIIGE and the TWGs, and meeting points as the IDEE WG and CODIIGE.

Each TWG has its own coordination dynamic, which in many cases coincides with the specialist committees of the CSG. This is the case of the TWG on Geographical Names which, at national level, relates to the Specialist Committee on Geographic Names as the main coordination mechanism. It is composed of managers and experts in the field. Its activities include periodically organising open seminars on place names. In the most recent ones, geographical names have been taking on an increasingly prominent role within the SDIs.

The TWGs play an important part in discriminating the roles of the various players involved in their fields. For example, in the case of the TWG on geographical names, a distinction should be made between the purely linguistic aspects of geographical names (standardisation, cultural background, language knowledge, historical reclamation) and those that require the use of geographical names in the context of more general projects (building official databases, mapping projects, search engines, naming new infrastructure). Each of these aspects has its own data producers and in many cases those who 'normalise' are not the same as those who 'formalise'. This requires special coordination in administrative circles with responsibility for geographical names where this duality exists. There is a variety of different cases.


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In state bodies and the Autonomous Communities, we have already looked in section 4.1.3 at the role of the various coordinating mechanisms that have been put in place. Coordination mechanisms take part by:

• producing inventories of data and services, which often take the form of records and catalogues;

• producing technical recommendations or transmitting any generated at other levels;

• organising meetings and various types of events for the dissemination of SDI.

These mechanisms are based on organisations that take part in various roles (the IGN for the IDEE project, the ICV for the terr@sit project, the ICC for the C4, etc.):

• providing tools for harmonising data and metadata;

• providing hosting services;

• providing support for the publication of the geo-portal and activities of the coordination mechanism.

Where there is no formally established coordination mechanism, there are organisations that provide support to carry out these tasks (such as in Rioja).

Data producers

The bodies of the AGE and Autonomous Communities that are data producers act as nodes in the IDEE and, in general, are responsible for publishing the services that distribute the data they produce. This model is replicated at regional level, where the regional and local bodies are included in the respective SDI nodes.

All levels of government that produce data and provide services are being encouraged to publish them via interoperable web services.

No SDSs are yet INSPIRE compliant. For their maps, some Autonomous Communities (Andalusia and Catalonia) use the structure of the INSPIRE Annexes as an SDS classification mechanism in their respective areas of responsibility. Aragon uses the structure of the LISIGE annexes.

We have found it quite complex to use INSPIRE themes as an organisational approach to data production. For example, in the case of the Geographical Names theme, we find:

• Map producers: bodies at all levels of public administration.

• Naming offices or services: standardisation bodies for names set up by some

Autonomous Communities (especially those with a co-official language).

• Infrastructure producers: responsible for managing roads, airports, ports, etc. also at all levels of public administration.


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• Managers in various fields: national parks, etc.

One of the tasks of the TWGs is to coordinate participation by these diverse sources in the SDIs.

The diversity of producers can also be viewed from a territorial standpoint. For example, Valencia's terr@sit project incorporates information from various bodies (table 10).

• Academia Valenciana de la Lengua (Valencian Language Academy)

• Entidad de Saneamiento de Aguas residuales de la Comunitat Valenciana (Wastewater Sanitation Board of Valencia)

• Conselleria de Infraestructuras, Territorio y Medio Ambiente (Regional Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Environment)

• Instituto Valenciano de Edificación (Building Institute of Valencia)

• Conselleria de Sanidad (Regional Department of Health)

• Conselleria de Justicia y Bienestar Social (Regional Department of Justice and Social Welfare)

• Conselleria de Educación, Formación y Ocupación (Regional Department of Education, Training and Employment)

• Instituto Cartográfico Valenciano (Mapping Institute of Valencia)

Table 10. List of bodies involved in terr@sit.

Catalonia has an IDEC catalogue managed by the CSIDEC, from which information can be extracted based on the contributions made to the metadata catalogue by various public and private bodies, all of which are data producers. The available records are divided into four main groups: duties carried out by the ICC itself, those carried out by local bodies that are part of the Local IDEC, those carried out by universities and research centres in the IDEC universe and duties carried out by the various departments of the Regional Government of Catalonia (table 11).

Catalan Spanish English Total

ICC 24 235 24 235 24 235 72 705

IDEC local 8 806 7 612 5 140 21 558

IDE universe 5 338 5 351 5 309 15 998

Regional Government 498 365 364 1 227

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Table 11. Metadata available at 31 December 2012 in the IDEC catalogue corresponding to a total of 169 bodies (157 public and 12 private).

Service providers

These generally produce their own data and set up the corresponding services.

In some cases, organisations that support the SDI activity of a body or an Autonomous Community host the SDSs produced by others and take responsibility for publishing them via appropriate services. This is the case of Rioja which has this role for the SDSs and services of most municipalities in the region.

In Catalonia, the metadata for services are created from a new internal application, compliant with ISO 19119, which allows metadata to be created in line with the INSPIRE and NEM 1-1 profiles. The total number of service metadata in the IDEC catalogue at 31 December 2012 was 546, published by a total of 169 bodies. The IDEC network gives access to a total of 7 212 layers.

Owing to the large amount and diversity of the metadata it manages, secondary catalogues have been created alongside the main catalogue to facilitate metadata searches: SDI in earth observation, catalogue of sensors in Catalonia, IDEC universe, IDEC coastal and IDEC local. Each of these catalogues has its own portal to centralise more specific and/or thematic searches of metadata.

Technology-based universities

In Spain, technological research and development centres linked to universities and other government bodies are playing an important part in the development of the SDI. They generate technology, data and knowledge, as reflected in their participation in the JIIDE seminars.

Users

Users tend to be a good system of quality control for services provided. At the general level there are two mailing lists hosted on RedIris, where feedback about problems or malfunctions of web services is often posted: GIS and IDEE.

The public administration accounts for a large group of users consuming the data they produce through the SDIs:

There are a number of mashups that rely on the existence of interoperable data services as a data source: Goolzoom, the hydrocarbons portal of the Ministry of Industry, the Housing Atlas, Wikiloc, Anthos, etc.

5.3 Measures taken to facilitate sharing and cooperation by the players

A substantial amount of legislation has been enacted for this purpose, as reported in the INSPIRE Report for 2007-2009. The new measures are as follows:

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o LISIGE.

• In the Autonomous Communities:

o Aragon Decree 208/2010 approving the Regulation governing geographic information in Aragon.

o Andalusia: IDEAndalucía is adopting the Creative Commons licence.

o Catalonia: Decree 62/2010 laying down a general framework for action in its territory and urging the bodies responsible for the various SDSs in that territory to facilitate and simplify access to them, in accordance with the rules laid down to that effect by the C4 and with the provisions of Law 37/2007 on the reuse of public-sector information.

o Castile-Leon: Decree 27/2012 of 19 July 2012 governing the conditions of use of mapping and geographic information produced by the Regional Government of Castile-Leon, and setting public prices for the service to be put on physical media.

The SDI paradigm encourages the publication of geographic data using web services, and interoperability is an important factor that is increasingly being taken into account. An important component to promote it are the projects on harmonisation among different administrations. A good example relates to geographical names, where there is a dual focus:

Harmonisation of content under the NGCE and NGBE projects.

Harmonisation of the data model, under the MNE. It does do not match the INSPIRE model, however. INSPIRE is currently being promoted as the data model. The NGA is retaining the MNE model with adaptations for compliance with INSPIRE rules.

The various bodies involved in data harmonisation and exchange projects are subject to cooperation agreements. The Autonomous Community of Aragon has signed them with the IGN, the Ministry of Defence, the Directorate-General for the Land Registry and Water Boards.

Another important factor is free access to information, which is widespread among those who publish geographic data by the Public Administration. In some cases, this is an explicit policy. The C4, in Catalonia, approved such a policy in 2009, as follows:

'Subject to any applicable exceptions, geo-information produced by public administrations and bodies, specifically the SDSs that make up the PCC, shall be freely distributed with universal access.'

The various players use the TWGs and IDEE WG as a forum for cooperation as described in sections 4.1.2 and 5.1 of this report. Cooperation takes place at meetings of the TWGs and the IDEE WG, and during the work done at each of the forums and subgroups of the latter.


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Some AGE bodies still have specific mechanisms. One example is the Directorate-General of Architecture, Housing and Land of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, which has three mechanisms:

• cooperation agreements with wholly public enterprises,

• agreements with Autonomous Communities, and

• participation in the 'Urbanismo en red' (Urban development network) project under a cooperation agreement with the public enterprise Red.es and the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces.

Many Autonomous Communities are replicating the operation being implemented at national level. This is the case of Andalusia, which has set up GT-IDEAndalucia, involving the whole regional and local government in holding conferences and seminars relating to SDIs for information, training and participation. Interestingly, the Autonomous Community of Catalonia stipulates that agreements between players are made bilaterally despite the existence of coordination mechanisms such as the C4, in order to streamline the sharing and transfer of information between bodies. IDENA is the response of the Regional Information System for Navarre to the INSPIRE requirements. The organisation and functioning of SITNA therefore supports the maintenance and improvement of that SDI. We would also point out that four INSPIRE workshops have been held (twice a year) which offer reports, guidance and coordination on the activity due to take place within the region. Ten thematic working groups have already been set up in Navarre, corresponding to the themes of Annexes I and II.

Promoting participation and dissemination is essential. The IDEE WG fosters these through a variety of resources: the IDEE blog, the newsletter SobreIDEs, the IDEE distribution list, e-learning courses on the IDEE and inter-ministerial courses organised by IGN.

By way of example, the work done in this direction in the Autonomous Community of Extremadura during the period 2010-2012 can be quantified as follows:

• 1 course on metadata for the regional administration,

• 1 course on metadata for the University of Extremadura,

• 4 general courses on SDI for the regional administration,

• 22 courses on homogenisation of thematic information on urban development and publication in the SDI,

• 2 dissemination events.

In Catalonia, the CSIDEC carried out the following outreach and participation activities over the period 2010-2012:

• preparation of CSIDEC newsletter, distributed by e-mail and posted on the web,


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• organisation of annual TIG GIS forum,

• participation in conferences and seminars, both in Spain and abroad,

• 16 training courses for the staff of the administration, of both regional and local government,

• 12 information and outreach seminars.

In Rioja, there is a news section on the website, along with three RSS feeds and a Twitter account. It was found that each time a tweet is posted giving information of interest along with a link in Geovisor to the relevant information, the number of geographic requests rises. They are proactive mechanisms in which the SDI does not merely wait passively for users, but pushes the available information to their computer, tablet or mobile phone.

5.4 Access to the INSPIRE geo-portal services

Users of the IIGE are not generally frequent users of the INSPIRE geo-portal client applications. Some services are very much in demand, however. The geo-portal is regarded as the reference catalogue implementation, metadata viewer and editor and is usually rated as such by those who are interested in setting up a geo-portal. Moreover, it also serves as a test to check the operation of web services.

Since 2012, IDEE has been offering a web-based discovery service in an INSPIRE catalogue profile (CSW ISO AP) allowing access to and viewing of metadata records of the datasets and geo-services provided by public administrations belonging to IDEE.

Throughout 2012, the IDEE CSW service connected, by harvesting or XML file interchange, as appropriate, the catalogues shown in table 12.

National Level

Douro River Basin Confederation SDI

Guadalquivir River Basin Confederation SDI

Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment SDI

National Geographic Institute node

Directorate-General for the Land Registry node

Regional level

Andalusia SDI

Cantabria SDI

Castile-Leon SDI

Catalonia SDI

Valencia SDI

Galicia SDI

Basque Country SDI

Table 12. SDI nodes contributing their metadata to the IDEE CSW service in late 2012.

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In order to be able to access the IDEE geo-services on the INSPIRE geo-portal, its metadata must be accessible through the INSPIRE catalogue client.

On 21 June 2012, the IDEE CSW service was included in the registries service of the INSPIRE geo-portal and consequently metadata records contained in IDEE are available for searching through the INSPIRE geo-portal catalogue client.

The INSPIRE registry system made collections every two weeks in 2012. However, owing to the large number of metadata contained in the IDEE catalogue, in early 2013 it was decided that metadata collections would now be made monthly. Moreover, from the Inspire registry service a report is produced and sent to the IDEE contact point, notifying among other things: the number of collected metadata, those corresponding to web services, data sets and services and whether the metadata comply with INSPIRE and ISO 19139 XML schemas.

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6. Use of the spatial data infrastructure

6.1 Use of SDI spatial data services

There is no systematic monitoring of the use of SDI spatial services in Spain. In this section we can only provide data collected during the INSPIRE monitoring campaigns of 2010, 2011 and 2012. Monitoring still suffers from many shortcomings that can make results unreliable.

Use of network services is accounted for by the general indicator NSi3, summarising the result of five specific indicators: NSi3.1 for discovery services, NSi3.2 for view services, NSi3.3 for download services, NSi3.4 for transformation services and NSi3.5 for access services. Each indicator is the average number of accesses recorded for the number of services of each type (table 13).

Year NSi 3.1 NSi 3.2 NSi 3.3 NSi 3.4 NSi 3.5 NSi 3

2010 2 214 028 664 469 76 897 1 936 74 945 603 589

2011 4 058 752 811 544 040 0 0 713 058

2012 4 367 457 323 2 937 0 0 405 532

Table 13. Indicators for monitoring the use of the network services referred to in Article 11(1) of Directive 2007/2/EC:

The figures for accesses to the discovery, view and download services for 2010-2012 are given in table 14.

Year Discovery services Download services View services 2010 42.066.538 16.840.401 1.011.322.411

2011 68.980 133.833.934 1.042.643.124

2012 69.865 748.849 967.599.630

Table 14. Figures for accesses reported for discovery, view and download services.

In general it can be seen that the greatest use is of view services, where accesses have remained almost constant over the three years. Accesses to discovery and download services have been more uneven, clearly influenced by the shortcomings mentioned in the INSPIRE monitoring campaigns. Noteworthy among these shortcomings is the low percentage of information received in relation to the access figures: on average, only 22% of reporting bodies provided the figures for access to discovery services, 26% for view services and 19% for downloads.

Qualitatively, note the variety of uses that can be made of spatial data services. Geographical names are firstly reference information, as they appear in most view services that display maps and, secondly, are also used as a search mechanism, although most implementations are not via web services but only through local installation of the database or gazetteer. IDEAndalucia, IDEASevilla and Line@, the IECA web service for downloading maps and orthophotos, are provided via a web service, allowing continuous synchronisation of the changes and updates made in the NGA.


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Quantitatively, the IGN notes that, in 2012, the IGN basic mapping view service had an average of more than 7 000 000 accesses per month and the PNOA orthophoto view service recorded more than 15 000 000 accesses per month.

The IGME reports an average number of visits for view services of 155 575 over the period 2010-2012. MAGRAMA reports nearly a million and a half accesses per month to OGC services over the period.

Monitoring usage of the services is a problem for some bodies, such as the CSIC, because they do not have a single centralised geo-portal, which requires access statistics to be merged.

Also, different metrics are being used. In the Autonomous Community of Andalusia the indicators of the level of use of IDEAndalucía are visits or accesses 4 , requests or queries5 and traffic6. Average growth of 15% per year was recorded over the period 2010-2012. Note that view is the most used service while the catalogue accounts for only 3% of accesses to the server. As for content, most consultations relate o topographic maps (44%) followed by orthophotos (40%) and thematic layers (15%).

For information purposes, Aragon keeps weekly and monthly statistics for consultations of CINTA and the SITAR platform. According to the monthly statistics, SITAR currently handles 75 000 user accesses, with occasional peaks of up to 150 000 requests, while the server provides 950 000 images. Monthly downloads are fairly stable, with average traffic of 140 GB. Furthermore, CINTA has a monthly average of 30-70 requests of which at least 50% are generally linked to the SITAR platform. The CINTA annual activity report will provide statistics of accesses and downloads via its electronic platform.

Asturias provides the information shown in table 15.

2010 2011 2012

Logins 77 989 129 041 43 174

Downloads 16 182 15 885 8 053

Table 15. Information on IIGE use managed by Asturias (2012 incomplete).

Galicia focuses on visits to the various services (table 16):

2010 2011 2012

Discovery 29 441 - -

Viewing 4 792 129 - 5 348 850

Downloads 30 393 - 20 477

4 Number of times that any client connects to the server and remains connected during the same session. Visitors are not considered (a single IP can access several times), but the number of times that the connection is established, regardless of duration.

5 Total number of files requested, a file meaning for an HTTP request that for HTML pages would be files and for WMS services would be each of the requests GetCapabilities, GetMap or GetFeatureInfo.

6 Total number of kilobytes downloaded by visitors including HTML pages, images, JavaScript files, style sheets, etc.


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Table 16. Information on visitors received by the IIGE managed by Galicia (2012 estimated).

The general trend shows a dramatic increase in activity. The general evolution of requests for Navarre is shown in table 17.

Year Requests

2010 3 972 654

2011 16 350 228

2012 38 606 694

Table 17. Total requests received by the IIGE managed by Navarre.

In Valencia, the number of view requests tripled in the latter half of 2012, with a cumulative total during that year of 68 million requests. Meanwhile the discovery service receives an average of 33 180 search requests a month.

Statistics for Rioja are shown in table 18.

Statistic Level 2011 2012 (Jan.-April)

Web pages Mapping 9 973 044 5 010 753

Accesses (logins) Spatial database 111 613

Downloads Geographic ftp 269 585 53 343

Accesses Regional viewer 517 982 375 762 60 509

Accesses Municipal viewers 452 933 223 009

Accesses Thematic viewers 1 520 480

Accesses WMS/WFS 1 716 734 881 766

Accesses RSS 91 423 34 492

Table 18. Statistics of accesses to the IIGE managed by Rioja.

Catalonia received nearly a billion service requests over the period 2010-2012 (table 19).

Service type Number of service requests 2010-2012

Discovery services 244 974

View services 732 082 496

Download services 261 878 706


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Transformation services 7 823

Access services 0

Table 19. Total requests received by different nodes and bodies of the Catalonia infrastructure.

6.2 Use of spatial data sets

SDSs are being increasingly used in the framework provided by the existing network of SDI geo-portals. In this respect, they are remarkable harmonisation efforts. There are two stands of work on geographical names:

• for content, the NGBE and NGCE projects.

• for the data model, the MNE.

Overall, the Autonomous Communities report that most SDS users are in their own public administrations. However, no indicator has been defined that can be used to measure the use of the SDSs by external users. Some regions, such as Andalusia,

have analysed the IP addresses that account for most traffic, verifying their origin. Galicia indicates that the services are used mainly by technicians working for companies operating in the field of spatial planning. Aragon estimates that public administrations account for 40% of data use. Rioja also reports a large number of in-house users. Galicia reports that the most requested themes are in reference information.

Specifically the mapping database, orthoimagery and geographical names. In Valencia, in general, the public administrations are making extensive use of the 1:5 000 orthophotos, the 1:5 000 map series and CartoCiudad street information, both of the dataset and as service access. Examples of use within the public administration are the inclusion of the CartoCiudad database in health applications and in databases for students of public schools in the region. Several applications are using spatial data services for management. These include the application for managing collectors of the waste water sanitation body, which updates and approves the graphical and text-based databases of collectors in Valencia.

In Catalonia, as a reflection of the use of spatial data sets, information is available on accesses to the various IDEC catalogues. The number of accesses for each year of the reporting period, and for each of the catalogues, is given below. The total number of accesses to the catalogues is 32 310 (table 20).

Catalogue accesses 2010 2011 2012

IDEC 7 711 9 071 10 604

IDEC local 510 988 441

IDEC universe 97 98 112

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IDEC sensors 0 1 198 406

IDEC earth observation 0 0 497

Table 20. Access to catalogues managed by IDEC.

6.3 Use of SDI by the general public

No data are available on the use of SDI by the general public apart from the data reported on the use of services and the analysis of the IP from which accesses are made. Aragon reports some 60% of use by the general public.

Valencia reports that GPS mapping is one of the main uses of spatial data sets by the general public. Downloads and the use being made of them are very relevant, as well as user feedback for improving them.

In Andalusia, the public is still generally unaware of the services provided by IDEAndalucía, since its interconnection protocols are very technical and no value-added services are yet provided by third parties.

An exception to this general assessment are consulting firms, in both public works and urban development, agriculture and environment, which are beginning to get to know and use IDEAndalucía services. This professional use shows up in the time analysis of the above indicators, which reveals the following information:

• there is reduced access in the December and August holiday periods;

• accesses at the weekends are two-thirds the level on working days;

• peak access times are 11:00 and 18:00.

These indicators reflect professional use and low penetration among home users. Catalonia does not have accurate information on public use of the infrastructure. The number of accesses reported in the previous section include those by the general public. There are plans to launch a survey in mid-2013 on the IDEE geo-portal to learn more about the use of SDIs in Spanish society.

6.4 Cross-border use

Cross-border use can be approached in two ways, firstly access to spatial data services from IP addresses located outside Spain and, secondly, access to the data sets of cross-border projects.

As an example of the first case, Aragon reports foreign accesses of 10%. The IGME states that accesses to its website cannot be distinguished from accesses to spatial data services. The proportion of national accesses to the IGME website is about 20%. The remaining 80% correspond to cross-border accesses, the majority of which (66%) come from the United States.

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regions in Portugal and Extremadura in Spain. At the end of 2012 there will be access to OGC general information services socio-economic and physical environmental indicators, data services linked to general information and operating tools for OTALEXC indicators

The CSIC manages the GBIF Spain node. GBIF is an intergovernmental organisation founded in 2001 and currently comprises 53 countries and 43 international organisations. GBIF is structured as a network of national nodes with an international secretariat in Copenhagen. The goal of GBIF is to give open and free access - via the internet - to biodiversity data worldwide to support scientific research, promote biological conservation and promote sustainable development. GBIF priorities focus on the organisational level, and the initial priority at that level is collections.

The HLANDATA project coordinated by the Government of Navarre, with the participation of IGN, the Tracasa company and partners from Austria, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Latvia and Lithuania. Its objectives are (1) to analyse the needs of European users in terms of land use, (2) to implement the INSPIRE Land Cover and Land Use specifications in the respective national datasets, (3) to publish them on geo-portal environments that offer value-added tools for users. The project has reported results to the European Commission on the knowledge of users at European level, collected productive experiences on converting to INSPIRE, published on the same web environment harmonised data from various countries and advanced tools for processing them.

6.5 Use of transformation services

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7. Data sharing

7.1 Sharing of data between public authorities

As discussed in previous chapters, the CSG serves as an organisational framework for the coordination and exchange of data between administrations. Royal Decree 1545/2007 established the legal framework for such cooperation in regard to the management of map production, cooperation on the production and harmonisation of geographic data and information and the interchange of data between them. The LISIGE makes the CSG responsible, through the CODIIGE, for the IIGE and makes it compatible with INSPIRE. Section 1a of Chapter III obliges public administrations to adopt measures to ensure that geographic data and geographic information services are shared between the administrations and public-sector bodies, allowing access to them together with interchange and use. These must include measures to establish geographic information infrastructures and ensure they are accessible and interoperable via IIGE. It also lays down the conditions for such access, without restricting the possibility of granting licences, or requiring payment of fees or prices in line with the current regulations. Moreover, it extends the application of these measures to the sharing of geographic data and geographic information services to private-sector bodies, under conditions to be laid down, and to administrations and public-sector bodies of other EU Member States and to the institutions and bodies of the European Union for carrying out public tasks that may affect the environment. The third section of Chapter III establishes which geographic information services must be accessible in the geographic information infrastructures of public administrations, requiring at least discovery, view and download services, transformation of geographic data and services providing access to the above services. It requires widespread accessibility to geographic information services, with the reservation that the managing body may deny the right of access on public interest grounds. It also states that certain types of services must be provided free of charge. Furthermore, it obliges public administrations to ensure that geographic information services are accessible and interoperable. Moreover, it sets the limits on public access to geographic data and geographic information services that public administrations may establish and the conditions of such access to geographic information.

Chapter IV of the LISIGE refers to the geographic information infrastructure of the AGE, laying down the obligation to provide a geo-portal, and the duties of the Directorate-General of the IGN in that regard.

The IGN is covered by Ministerial Order FOM/956/2008 approving the policy of public dissemination of geographic information generated by that Directorate-General. The Order makes readily available, free of charge, all the information in the National Geographic Reference Equipment and other information, for non-commercial use, free of charge but subject to acceptance of the conditions laid down in a user licence. It also lays down the conditions for the commercial use of geographic information, encouraging the development of value-added services for geographic information, requiring as financial consideration only a percentage of any profits earned by the provider of the value-added services.

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sharing, both between authorities and the general public (see comment in section 5.2 under the heading on data producers). A good example is the MAGRAMA SDI portal, launched in November 2011 with the aim of providing a national and European reference node for geographic and environmental information, together with information relating to agricultural, livestock and fisheries resources.

There are a number of different data harmonisation projects, some of which are already mentioned above:

• NGCE, at 1:1 000 000 scale, and NGBE, at 1:25 000 scale, developed by IGN in cooperation with the Autonomous Communities that have their own gazetteer and the Registry of Local Bodies of the Ministry of Regional Policy.

• CartoCiudad project

• PNOA project

• SIOSE project

• BTA model developed by the CENG of the CSG

• Cooperation Agreement between FEGA and the Directorate-General for the Land Registry with a view to achieving a common parcel map layer for SIGPAC and the land registry GIS.

The following are worthy of note at Autonomous Community level:

• In Andalusia, cooperation agreements have been signed between the Andalusia Regional Government and all Andalusian provincial councils for cataloguing, interchanging and disseminating key spatial datasets, with particular reference to the Digital Street Directory of Andalusia.

• In Aragon, the first specific agreements were made under the SCN, which involve interchange of data and services between the Government of Aragon and the IGN.

• In Extremadura, the Regional Mapping Information Council of Extremadura set up three thematic committees for data sharing: the Thematic Mapping and Regional Information Committee of Extremadura, the Thematic Spatial Data Infrastructure Committee and the Thematic Place Names Committee, where various departments of the Extremadura Government and other administrations with jurisdiction on geospatial information in Extremadura.

• In Navarre, SITNA has signed cooperation agreements with the town council of Pamplona, the associated municipalities of Pamplona, the postal service and Acciona Energía. All the utility companies operating in Navarre are taking part in the project Coordination Portal for Underground Conduits (PCCS).

• In Murcia cooperation agreements have been established between the Regional Ministry of Public Works and Urban Development, and the Regional Ministry of Agriculture and Water for the exploitation, publishing, cataloguing, sharing and dissemination of the main spatial data sets in the region.


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• In Galicia, an agreement was signed between the Regional Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure and the Galician Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEGAMP) for the definition and generation of geographic and spatial information to be exchanged, and the organisation of the shared management model for that information; it also establishes cooperation and coordination mechanisms for activities between the Institute of Regional Studies (IET) and the municipalities and other local government bodies.

• Valencia notes that it is proving challenging to make agreements within the environment of its administration. Data producers are reluctant to share information and have technical reservations about investing their time in implementing publishing services on their own servers. All the agreements reached have been informal and the results almost always due to the efforts of ICV's own technicians. Against this general background, the ICV aims to work with the support of the Directorate-General for Information Technology to implement services outside the ICV within the Regional Government of Valencia.

• The Government of the Balearic Islands has signed cooperation agreements on mapping and spatial data infrastructure with all the Island Councils and several municipalities on the islands. Signatories to the cooperation agreement undertake to develop a plan for setting up their node in accordance with the established standards. Members also undertake to: produce a catalogue of the geographic information they have, exchange catalogues, facilitate the interchange of geo-information and agree on joint measures to train technicians.

• In Catalonia agreements have been signed between the ICC and the IGN for shared preparation and use of the orthophotos of the PNOA programme and SIOSE. Furthermore, agreements are being signed between the ICC and the provincial councils, metropolitan bodies and various municipalities for the development and shared use of 1:1 000 scale urban maps; there are also agreements between the provincial councils and metropolitan authorities for joint participation in 1:1 000 mapping bases and the adaptation of land-registry and urban mapping. The local IDEC is being implemented and developed under an agreement between the ICC and the AOC. There are no problems with interchange and sharing of information between agencies.

• In the Basque Country, basic map production is responding to a large extent to a

coordinated production model, although no formal agreement has been made. The flights and orthophotos are carried out by the Basque Government. The Provincial Councils use these flights to prepare 1:5 000 maps and the Basque Government's Harmonised Topographic 1:5 000 Base is generated and supplemented from this information. Several cooperation agreements have been signed with the AGE to generate SDSs within the SCN.


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7.2 Sharing of data between public authorities and EU institutions and bodies

Spain participates in several projects for data sharing at EU level:

• EUREF

• EURADIN

• Nature SDI+

• HLANDATA (see section 6.4)

• SIGPAC

• GIS4EU

• Projects promoted by EuroGeographics

• The OTALEXC system of indicators and data

• Thematic data in the context of the International Tagus Natural Park

• Thematic data within the Great Lake of Alqueva structuring project

• EUROGEOSS

• Copernicus Programme (GMES) for global monitoring of spatial, environmental and security data, with competence for land observation, marine waters, the atmosphere, emergencies, security and climate change.

• EIONET network to supply environmental information. EAGLE working group of the EIONET ETC/SIA network for more advanced development of the INSPIRE land cover and land use specifications.

• HELM Project for the definition of a harmonised European land monitoring programme.

Moreover, in the particular case of geographic information covered by Ministerial Order FOM/956/2008, access to and use of the geographic information covered by the Order by EU institutions and bodies is free of charge, provided that use is non-commercial, though subject to the establishment of an appropriate user licence. The Commission also has free access to all land registry information through electronic land registry office. Available in the official languages of Spain and in English.

The IGME has actively participated in the eWater and OneGeology-Europe projects, both co-financed by the European Union. These two projects, which pre-date the drafting of the data specifications of Annexes II and III, had the primary objective of harmonising geological and hydrogeological data and metadata throughout Spain. Note that the data model and vocabularies of controlled terms set out in the OneGeology-Europe project


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were to be the starting point for drafting the specifications of the geology subdomain in the 'Geology' theme.

The IGME is currently taking part in the EGDI project (pan-European Geological Data Infrastructure) which aims to set up a harmonised geological data infrastructure, in which the resolutions under the INSPIRE Directive will undoubtedly be fundamental.

The Autonomous Community of Aragon has established a cooperation agreement for the interchange of data from GPS stations with France, and takes part in the Mapping Committee of the CTP.

In Catalonia, the ICC takes part in the Mapping Committee of the CTP, EUREF and IDEC Univers, which consists of a network of universities which are setting up an SDI that aims to streamline the access, sharing and interoperability of the large amount of geo-referenced information produced at universities and research centres through their projects.

7.3 Barriers to sharing and action taken to overcome them

According to the TWG on geographical names, the necessary planning, with corresponding cost estimates, for the publication of the services required by INSPIRE, is lacking. A fundamental problem is the lack of resources, since there is usually no budgetary allocation for either coordination costs (meetings, etc.) or processing (data review, etc.). The IGME says it is finding it difficult to make contact with the technicians responsible for geographic information in public administration bodies.

In the case of joint projects, interesting experience has been gained in OTALEXC. To harmonise data and socio-economic and physical/environmental indicators between the Centre and Alentejo regions of Portugal and Extremadura in Spain, problems have had to be overcome with the different administrative structures, the different data updating frequencies and the environments influencing them on either side of the border.

Aragon reports a difficulty with coordinating activities once the budgets of the various institutions are already approved, together with the difficulties encountered as a result of budget cuts.

In Valencia, there is some reluctance at local level to move to the new official coordinate reference system for spatial data sets owing to delays or problems in some state agencies and lack of technical training. The measures taken for the past two years have consisted of providing more dissemination and direct support for local authorities, and more awareness raising and training for professional groups. These measures are being well received.

The Directorate-General for Architecture, Housing and Land of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport reports that the signing of a number of cooperation agreements with Autonomous Communities on the one hand, and with Red.es and the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces on the other, has helped to overcome problems with sharing and integrating data from different sources.


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The IGME has analysed the issues arising when adapting geological information structured according to the IGME specifications to the INSPIRE Directive. Two particularly important problems were detected:

The application schema proposed in the core data specifications leads to a loss of information in relation to the digital geological information offered by the IGME.

The adaptation of all relevant and up-to-date IGME information, using the extended INSPIRE Directive geology model, requires a very high level of dedication.

Catalonia observes that the main obstacles it faces can be summarised in three points:

a) lack of documentation on the technical specifications, which hinders interchange,

b) the existence of differing specifications to define the same SDS, and

c) a lack of resources for normalising the geographical information in the SDSs in order to facilitate interoperability.


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8. Cost/benefit aspects

8.1 Costs of implementing the INSPIRE Directive

There are no studies assessing the cost of implementing the INSPIRE Directive nor any general studies evaluating the cost/benefit impact of developing SDIs at national level. At regional level, Catalonia has conducted two socio-economic impact studies: the first commissioned by the JRC INSPIRE unit (Garcia et al., 2008) and conducted by the Centre of Land Policy and Valuations of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, the second and as a final thesis for the GIS master from the Polytechnic Foundation Catalonia (Cívico, 2011).

As for the costs of implementing the INSPIRE Directive that are being incurred in the Spanish public administration, the following components can be distinguished:

• Costs of transforming geographic information to adapt it to the data specifications laid down by the INSPIRE implementing rules, and the costs of generating and maintaining metadata:

o Each public administration institution bears the costs of transforming its data and generating metadata, out of its own budget.

• Costs of harmonising geographic information:

o In bilateral and multilateral projects on harmonisation or joint production, costs are shared between the institutions participating in the project. Each project has its own formulas for sharing costs, but projects between the AGE and regional governments generally share costs on the basis of 66% for the AGE and 34% for regional administrations.

o In other cases, where the project does not involve other administrations, all costs are borne by the data producer, such as when an Autonomous Community incorporates the BTA model into its production chain.

• Costs of implementing and operating interoperable geographic information services:

o The costs are borne by the institutions providing the interoperable services.

• Implementation and operating costs of SDI geo-portals:

o The costs are borne by the budgets of the AGE, the Autonomous Communities

and local bodies, when setting up geo-portals.

• Cost of implementing and maintaining the IDEE geo-portal:

o The cost is borne by the IGN budget, in the Spanish State Budget, as Technical

Secretariat of the CSG. This cost has amounted to an average of €1.3 million per year over the last five years.


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Information provided by the Autonomous Communities:

Aragon reports that the direct cost of various projects for updating data and adapting services to the INSPIRE Directive is €60 000 (including VAT).

In Navarre, data producers bear the costs of integrating, harmonising and maintaining data and metadata in SITNA. The cost of implementing and maintaining the IDENA geo-portal and the services it provides, carried out by Tracasa, is financed under a corporate heading of approximately €100 000 a year.

In Valencia, the main direct costs are €60 000 for integration, software and maintenance of the search engine (Google) and €75 000 for infrastructure hardware.

8.2 Observed benefits

No quantitative data can be provided for the period 2010-2012. The availability of open and interoperable data clearly brings management benefits to the end user accessing the SDIs, regardless of whether it is a public administration or an individual, which would theoretically translate into financial terms. However, there are no direct methods for measuring these benefits and the indirect ones are expensive and imprecise. This is a major obstacle for determining these parameters.

Another aspect to consider would be the specific theme of our SDI, which enhances the interest of certain agents specialising in research and studies in accessing our geo-portals. The quantification at this level is quite vague.

In the case of the SIU, developed by the Directorate-General for Architecture, Housing and Land, of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, the transparency provided in relation to urban and land planning information implies a qualitative value, in that it is an attribute of good management of public affairs.

The second study in Catalonia, based on data collected in 2010, concludes that the main benefits are at the level of local public administration in terms of internal efficiency and savings in in-house resources are estimated at more than €2.5 million a year (Cívico, 2011).

In Navarre the analysis of the observed benefit is the priority objective of the SITNA Action Plan for 2013. In order to achieve satisfactory results, it will be necessary to overcome major difficulties relating to:

• The diversity of channels and interrelated media through which SITNA provides its services; IDENA is one of them, and is important for its specific functions (principally catalogue and metadata, viewing and downloads), but also essential for using data, calling up services, etc. from other channels.

• The lack of standardised methodologies, including common metrics, which requires particular methods to be invented, prevents any comparisons being made.

• The diverse nature of the benefits observed: a few are accountable, others quantifiable and most can be evaluated.


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This is particularly serious in an environment in which:

• we system managers incontestably observe that the system is efficient;

• budget constraints require a cost/benefit analysis to be able to justify the necessary funding for the system.

According to Valencia, the benefits can be broken down into:

• access to information: one of the main initial problems in any project is the initial information gathering, which increased costs; spatial reference data for both public and private studies are accessible for both download and view;

• knowledge of the suitability of the information: through the use of metadata we can learn about the properties of the data to find out whether or not they meet the requirements of the study to be conducted;

• analysis and interchange: the use of known and homogeneous spatial data allows information to be interchanged and makes it possible to analyse data from various thematic sources.

INSPIRE is in its early stages of development. Infrastructure development projects of this type involve a high initial investment, which is then reduced to maintenance and renovation, thereby reducing its cost. However, the benefit to society will increase as the system progresses, improves and matures, because if the defined objectives are achieved, it will be increasingly used in public administrations, the private sector and by the general public (as access services improve) and decision-making processes in Europe and at national, regional and local levels.

Producer organisations will not benefit therefore. Governments should provide financial support for these institutions to provide a medium- and long-term benefit to society as a whole.

The harmonisation of data as required by INSPIRE is essential to facilitate and foster integrated land management in Europe.


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9. Conclusions

The main conclusion is that the implementation of the INSPIRE Directive in Spain is under way but is still in a very early stage.

We would highlight the following positive aspects:

• the LISIGE has incorporated the INSPIRE Directive into Spanish law;

• the executive organisational structures have been set up which must take responsibility for implementing the Directive;

• the development of SDIs in Spain is very advanced and has a full catalogue of SDSs and services, the latter based on interoperable standards;

• as a consequence of this, there is significant use of the SDSs and services provided by the administration, though it has been possible to quantify it in only a few cases;

• four monitoring campaigns have been carried out, so that the various bodies and entities that have to provide the SDSs and services required by the INSPIRE know the requirements of the Directive and have worked out how to comply with it.

The negative aspects are:

• not all the implementing rules provided for by the European Commission have yet been developed, which affects the correct identification of INSPIRE SDSs;

• we do not have a proper timetable for implementing the Directive;

• many of the organisational structures set up are still starting to operate, so it will take time to realise the implications of implementing the Directive;

• in many cases the important task of data harmonisation still needs to be carried out, which should be a prerequisite for defining the SDSs and services that must comply with INSPIRE;

• there is also a need to carry out a major educational campaign among those responsible for providing the SDSs and services, especially to clarify the exact meaning of what is required by INSPIRE;

• the current economic climate is slowing or preventing the implementation of the necessary mechanisms to generate the services in accordance with the implementing rules.

• SDI is developing quite unevenly between different AGE bodies and different Autonomous Communities in Spain, so there is a need to continue focusing on promotion and stimulus,

• we would reiterate that the impressive effort driven by INSPIRE with regard to the supply of data, metadata and services is not being matched by the attention given to


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knowledge of applications, users, level of satisfaction, cost/benefit analysis, etc. It is therefore difficult to report on these difficult issues, and the results are partial and heterogeneous.


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10. Annexes

10.1 List of organisations

10.1.1 Central State Administration

Organisation: Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport

Directorate-General for the National Geographic Institute

Contact person: Antonio F. Rodríguez Pascual

Job title: Head of Unit for Geographic Information Infrastructure

E-mail: [email protected]

Telephone: (34) 915979661

Role: Producer of official maps and provider of associated web services

Coordination structure:

There is a production manager for each of the IGN geographic data products, responsible for coordinating the production of data, metadata, specifications and determining quality. At the CNIG (IGN) there is also a coordinator of metadata and cataloguing throughout the IGN, a coordinator of publication (of metadata and specifications) at the Download Centre and a web services implementation team that either publishes the services or assists the production unit to do so.

Responsibilities of the coordinating structure:

Implementing and maintaining the IGN SDI node, based on the set of web services that publish the IGN data products. That comprises: production of data, metadata, specifications, and implementation of services.

Organisation: Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport Directorate for the National Geographic Institute National Centre for Geographic Information

Contact person: Sebastián Mas Mayoral

Job title: Director of the National Centre for Geographic Information


Telephone: (34) 915979646

Role: Inspire National Contact Point IDEE coordinating body

Coordination structure: President of the IDEE WG and CODIIGE (S. Mas) Secretary of the IDEE WG and CODIIGE Head of the Architecture Standards TWG Head of the Metadata and Catalogues TWG


Contact point for Spain in relation to EU bodies Coordinate and harmonise the SDI of Spain, applying and monitoring CODIIGE decisions


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Organisation: Ministry of Finance and Public Administration Directorate-General for the Land Registry

Contact person: Fernando Serrano Martínez

Job title: Sub-Directorate-General for Studies and Information Systems


Telephone: (34) 915 83 68 80

Role: Collection and preparation of information for spatial data sets and services and network services of the Land Registry DG for setting up spatial information infrastructure in accordance with the INSPIRE Directive.


Computerised mapping unit: • Luis Ignacio Virgós Soriano, [email protected] • Francisco Quintana Llorente,

[email protected] • José Miguel Olivares García,

[email protected]

Institutional and International Relations unit • Amalia Velasco Martín Varés,

[email protected]


Implementation of the policy of the Directorate-General for the Land Registry in its respective areas of competence, as described below: Pursuant to Article 4 of Royal Decree 256/2012 of 27 January 2012 laying down the basic organisational structure of the Ministry of Finance and Public Administration: (a) The development and management of land registry mapping, the renewal of the rural land register and upgrade of the land register, including coordination of values, approval of the presentations and management of the land register observatory for the property market. (d) Cooperation and information interchange with other public administrations and institutions, and with public officials. (e) The dissemination of land registry information. (i) The provision of information services and assistance to citizens, and the custody and maintenance of land registry records. (k) The development and analysis of the statistical information contained in the land registry databases and the property taxation database. (l) The design, operation and maintenance of the electronic computer and communications systems and media needed for the development of the functions and provision of land registry services. (ñ) Institutional relations with other organs or bodies of the Central State Administration and with the Autonomous Communities, local authorities, international organisations, other countries and any other public or private institutions.


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Organisation: Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport Department of Architecture, Housing and Land

Sub-Directorate-General for Land Policy

Contact person:

Job title:

e-mail: [email protected]

Telephone: (34) 91728 40 97

Role: Design, maintenance and updating of Urban Information System (SIU), for the collection and processing of statistical data on urban development and land, in coordination with other competent authorities in the field.



Implementation of Government policy in the areas of access to housing, building, urban planning, land and architecture within the scope of the powers of the Central State Administration.

Organisation: Ministry of Economic Affairs and Competitiveness

State Secretariat for Research, Development and Innovation

Geological and Mining Survey of Spain (IGME)

Contact person: Fernando Pérez Cerdán

Job title:

e-mail : [email protected]

Telephone: (34) 91 728 72 39

Role: Responsible for INSPIRE implementation at the Geological and Mining Institute of Spain, main themes 'Geology', 'Mineral resources' and 'Natural risk zones'.



The IGME is the national body with competence for information and knowledge on earth sciences. It takes part in the WG on the Spatial Data Infrastructure of Spain (IDEE) and is the coordinator of the 'Geology' Technical Working Group of the Executive Council for Spanish Geographic Information Infrastructure (CODIIGE).

Organisation: Ministry of Economic Affairs and Competitiveness

State Secretariat for Research, Development and Innovation National Science Research Council (CSIC) Vice-President of Scientific and Technical Research (VICYT) Serrano 117

28006 Madrid

Contact person:

Job title:

e-mail : [email protected] ; http://www.csic.es

Telephone: (34) 91 568 14 00

Role: Pursuant to Article 18(2) of Royal Decree 1730/2007 of 21 December 2007 establishing the State agency the National Science Research Council, Vice-Presidency of Scientific and Technical Research (VICYT) is to have the following duties:


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(a) direction of planning, monitoring and coordination of scientific and technical research and knowledge transfer; (b) direction of the planning and coordination of the provision of scientific and technical personnel and scientific infrastructure to centres, institutes and units; (c) direction of scientific and technical departments and in-house and cooperative research programmes; (d) direction of the management of major scientific and technical facilities and scientific and technical assessment; (e) direction of planning, monitoring and coordination of recruitment and training activities for research and technical staff; (f) direction of management of CSIC participation in competitive tenders in the field.


Centre for Human and Social Sciences (CCHS) Contact person: Isabel del Bosque González E-mail: [email protected] Telephone: +34 91 6022576


Collection and preparation of information for spatial data sets and services and network services at the CSIC, for setting up spatial information infrastructure in accordance with the INSPIRE Directive.

Organisation: Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment Directorate-General for Water

Contact person: Working Group for the Coordination of Geographic Information Services

Job title: e-mail : [email protected]

Telephone: (34) 91 347 51 82

Role: Coordination of all MAGRAMA Directorates-General and regional bodies that produce spatial data

Coordination structure: Working Group for the Coordination of Geographic Information Services


Coordination of spatial data for which the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment is competent

Organisation: Sustainability Observatory for Spain University of Alcalá C/ Colegios, 2

28801 Alcalá de Henares (Madrid)

Contact person: Almudena Checa Rodríguez

Job title: Head of Administration and Documentation


Telephone: 918854049

Role: Responsible for the Spatial Data Infrastructure of Sustainability Observatory for Spain (IDE-OSE)


Sustainability Observatory for Spain University of Alcalá C/ Colegios, 2 28801 Alcalá de Henares (Madrid)


OSE website: www.ose.es

OSE SDI website: www.ide.ose.es

mailto:[email protected]


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The Sustainability Observatory for Spain (OSE) was founded in 2005 under a cooperation agreement between the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment, the Biodiversity Foundation and the University of Alcalá. Its mission is to stimulate social change towards sustainability by providing the best available information, making it available to society, decision-making processes and public participation. The Spatial Data Infrastructure of the Sustainability Observatory for Spain (OSE SDI) aims to provide to the users via the internet geo-referenced information on socio-economic, environmental, cultural, regional and governance aspects that can be used to assess the sustainability of Spanish development. The OSE SDI facilitates access to and exploitation and dissemination of sustainability indicators developed by the OSE and its integration with a variety of basic and thematic mapping information produced by other bodies. This project is the OSE's response in terms of sustainability indicators to the EU INSPIRE Directive, at European level, and the Spatial Data Infrastructure of Spain (IDEE) at national level.

10.1.2 Autonomous Communities

Organisation: Andalusia

Statistical and Mapping Institute of Andalusia Leonardo Da Vinci, 21. Isla de la Cartuja

41071-Seville

Contact person: Agustín Villar Iglesias

Job title:


Telephone: (34) 900 101 407/955 033 800 Fax: 955 033 816

Role: Spatial Data Infrastructure Manager of Andalusia Coordinator of GT-IDEAndalucía Working Group Representative of the Regional Government of Andalusia in the CODIIGE


Interdepartmental Statistics and Mapping Committee

IDEAndalucía Working Group [email protected] www.ideandalucia.es


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IDEAndalucía is regulated by Decree 141/2006 of 18 July 2006 on the mapping activity of the Autonomous Community of Andalusia. Chapter IV and the annexes to the Decree lay down the operating principles and procedures of IDEAndalucia, including its coordination structures. Specifically, Article 18(4) of Decree 141/2006 states that 'the Mapping Institute of Andalusia shall be responsible for the technical direction and coordination of Spatial Data Infrastructure, in accordance with the criteria of the Working Group on the Spatial Data Infrastructure of Andalusia and the monitoring of the Mapping Committee of Andalusia'. Pursuant to Decree 141/2006, the Mapping Committee of Andalusia at its meeting on 9 March 2007 approved the establishment of the GT-IDEAndalucía Working Group, assigning it the following duties: • facilitate the incorporation of information from a variety of public

and private organisations; • ensure compliance with principles and standards; • monitor the updating and quality control of the information

incorporated; • define the functional requirements to be satisfied by computer

platforms; • plan the growth and development of the IDEAndalucía. Law

4/2011 of 6 June 2011 founded the Statistical and Mapping System of Andalusia, which involved replacing the Mapping Committee of Andalusia by the new Interdepartmental Statistics and Mapping Committee, as well as the reorganisation of the former ICA into the Statistics and Mapping Institute of Andalusia.

Organisation: Aragon Aragon Regional Information Centre. Directorate-General for Spatial Planning. Department of Regional and Interior Policy. Government of Aragon. Paseo María Agustín, no 36. Edificio Pignatelli. Puerta 14. 3a Planta. CP. 50.071 ZARAGOZA.

Contact person: Sergio Monteagudo Latorre

Job title: Secretary of the Aragon Mapping Council


Telephone: 976 71 56 04 o 976 71 56 05 Fax: 976 71 43 57

Role: • To obtain, organise and disseminate documents and information within the Autonomous Community, through the management and coordination of the spatial information tools regulated by Law 4/2009 of 22 June 2009 on spatial planning in Aragon.

• Basic executive body of the Aragon Mapping System. • To create the Mapping Plan of Aragon. • To maintain the Regional Information System for Aragon

(SITAR).


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• To create the Spatial Data Infrastructure for Aragon.


Aragon Mapping Council.


To advise the administration of the Autonomous Community, together with other public administrations, on all matters relating to geographic information and mapping.

To promote cooperation between public administrations and bodies on measures relating to mapping and geographic information in Aragon.

To foster and promote the creation, processing and use of geo-referenced data and maps by public administrations, and their contribution to and participation in the Spatial Data Infrastructure of Aragon.

To report on the Aragon Mapping Plan project.

To report on the Aragon Mapping Standards.

To report on the Geographical Gazetteer of Aragon.

Organisation: Principality of Asturias

Regional Department of Development, Spatial Planning and Environment c/ Coronel Aranda, 2 edificio de servicios múltiples

sector izquierdo, planta baja 33005 Oviedo

Contact person: Alvaro Álvarez Rodríguez

Job title: Head of Geographic Information Systems unit


Telephone: Telephone: 985 108955 fax: 985 105714

Role: Head of SITPA


Mapping Centre Address: c/Coronel Aranda s/n Edificio Administrativo EASMU Planta 0, sector izquierdo 33005 – OVIEDO Telephone: 985105935 Fax: 985105714 Contact person: Alberto Peón Peláez (Head of Service) E-mail [email protected]

Responsibilities: The Mapping Centre is responsible for assistance to the Regional Department with the studies, planning and processing of the relevant actions that fall to it. It will be a platform for the planning and production of maps, whether basic, derived or thematic, and cooperation with such bodies as have graphical regional databases of general application and especially with the bodies of Asturias that are competent for information systems and publications. (Decree 77/2012 of 14 June 2012 establishing the basic organisational structure of the Regional Ministry of Development, Spatial Planning and Environment)

Organisation: Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands

Directorate-General for Spatial Planning of the Regional Department of Agriculture, the Environment and Land of the Government of the Balearic Islands (DGOT)


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Contact person: Joan Mesquida Sampol

Job title: Director-General of the DG for Spatial Planning


Telephone:

Role: To participate as regional node in the Spanish Spatial Data Infrastructure and Services

Coordinator of GT-IDEIB Working Group To represent the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands on the Executive Council of Geographic Information Infrastructure Spain


The Directorate-General for Spatial Planning of the Regional Department of Agriculture, the Environment and Land of the Government of the Balearic Islands has responsibility for the regional IDEIB node in Spanish spatial data infrastructure and services. The DGOT has commissioned the public company Serveis d'Infromació Terriorials de les Illes Balears (SITIBSA) to handle the development and maintenance of the IDEIB project. Contact person for the IDEIB in SITIBSA: Name: Fèlix Escalas van Nouhuys E-mail: [email protected]

Telephone: 971177870 Fax: 971177871


The Department of Agriculture, the Environment and Regional Planning through the Directorate-General for Spatial Planning, is developing the SDI for the Balearic Islands using the standards adopted by the EU INSPIRE Directive and the LISIGE, in order to ensure interoperability between the geo-services of the administrations involved: AGE, Regional Government, Regional Councils, municipalities, etc. Accordingly, it is constantly focusing on promoting participation by the administrations involved in the project, providing all possible advice and technical cooperation. Of the members participating in the IDEIB project, the signatories to the cooperation agreement undertake to develop a plan for setting up their node in accordance with the established standards. Members also undertake to:

• prepare a catalogue of the geographic information they have,

• exchange catalogues, • facilitate the exchange of geo-information,

agree on joint measures for technical training of the parties.

Organisation: Government of Cantabria

Regional Department of the Environment, Spatial Planning and Urban Development Directorate-General for Spatial Planning and Urban Environmental Assessment

Contact person: Gabriel J. Ortiz Rico

Job title: Head of the Mapping and Geographic Information Systems unit


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Telephone: 940 20 81 71

Role: Technical coordination and systems administration



Organisation: Castile-La Mancha

Council of Communities of Castile-La Mancha Regional Department of Development Paseo Cristo de la Vega s/n

45001 Toledo

Contact person: Manuel López Castro

Job title: Head of GIS and Mapping Service


Telephone: 925 26 69 80

Role: On 10 June 2010, Decree 93/2010 of 1 June 2010, on the management of mapping activities by the administration of the Council of Communities of Castile-La Mancha, was published in the Official Gazette of Castile-La Mancha. Article 13 provides for the creation of Mapping Centre of Castile-La Mancha as a technical and administrative management body, attached to the Regional Department responsible for spatial planning, responsible for the smooth running of public mapping activity of the Council of Communities of Castile-La Mancha and other regional public-sector bodies. The duties of the Mapping Centre include: (h) Develop and maintain the metadata catalogue of geographic information for Castile-La Mancha. (i) The technical management and coordination of the Spatial Data Infrastructure of Castile-La Mancha, in accordance with the criteria of the Mapping Coordination Commission of Castile-La Mancha.


Contact: Mapping Centre of Castile-La Mancha Address: Paseo Cristo de la Vega s/n Telephone: 925 26 69 00 e-mail: [email protected]

Website: http://centrocartografico.jccm.es/ Contact person: Manuel López Castro Telephone: 925 26 69 80



(a) Develop the Mapping Plan, Mapping Standards and Gazetteer of Castile-La Mancha. (b) Establish, manage, maintain and improve the physical infrastructure and technological systems necessary to manage the Geodetic Positioning Service of Castile-La Mancha, always in coordination with the national geodetic positioning infrastructures. (c) Develop, acquire and manage satellite imagery, flyovers, orthophotos, digital elevation models and other products that allow observation of the territory of Castile-La Mancha, developed in cooperation with the Central State Administration. All without


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prejudice to other administrative bodies of the Council of Communities of Castile-La Mancha, and other regional public sector entities, carrying out any processing, procurement or management of these products, on a sectoral basis in the exercise of their duties. (d) Develop and update topographic mapping of the territory of Castile-La Mancha. (e) Develop and update thematic mapping of general interest to the administration of the Council of Communities of Castile-La Mancha, that does not fall within the competence of other bodies of the regional administration. (f) Publish and disseminate mapping products that it acquires or develops, together with any other mapping or spatial data for the Castile-La Mancha region not produced by the centre, are entrusted to it for that purpose if they are of general interest or if so decided by the body responsible for the them, subject to intellectual property law. (g) Manage the Mapping Registry for Castile-La Mancha. (h) Develop and maintain the metadata catalogue of geographic information for Castile-La Mancha. (i) The technical management and coordination of the Spatial Data Infrastructure of Castile-La Mancha, in accordance with the criteria of the Mapping Coordination Commission of Castile-La Mancha. (j) Provide general technical support to the Mapping Coordination Commission of Castile-La Mancha in the exercise of its duties. (k) Promote cooperation projects in R&D&I in mapping with other institutions and bodies, particularly the University of Castile-La Mancha. Along with training in and publication and dissemination of technological progress and developments aimed at land observation, including geographic information professionals in the public sector. (l) Promote and foster the use and development of free software tools for mapping and related subjects. (m) Prepare the affairs of the Mapping Coordination Commission of Castile-La Mancha.

Organisation: Regional Government of Castile-Leon

Regional Department of Development and Environment C/ Rigoberto Cortejoso, 14

47014 Valladolid

Contact person: Alberto González Monsalve

Job title: Head of Regional Information Centre


Telephone: 983 41 91 90

Role: The Regional Information Centre, attached to the Directorate-General for Housing, Architecture and Urban Development of the Regional Department of Development and Environment, is the body responsible for the technical direction and coordination of the Spatial Data Infrastructure of Castile-Leon, pursuant to Decree 82/2008 of 4 December 2008 on mapping in Castile-Leon.


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www.cartografia.jcyl.es


Castile-Leon Mapping Council It is a collegiate advisory body for the public administrations, composed of representatives from all levels of public administration. Technical Mapping Committee of Castile-Leon

A collegiate advisory body for the administration of the Autonomous Community, composed of representatives of the Directorates-General most involved in geographic information. Regional Information Centre

Administrative body of the administration of the Autonomous Community which promotes and coordinates mapping activity, and provides the technical secretariat for the Council and Technical Committee.


Among other goals, the Mapping Council aims to promote cooperation between the public administrations and bodies promoting the spatial data infrastructure of Castile-Leon. Among other things, the Technical Mapping Committee of the general administration of the Autonomous Community, aims to promote the development, coordination and maintenance of the

Spatial Data Infrastructure of Castile-Leon, and coordinate the geographic information systems of the administration of the Autonomous Community and promote its corporate geographic information system. The Regional Information Centre is the administrative body of the Regional Government of Castile-Leon, responsible for basic map production and the coordination of the spatial data infrastructure of Castile-Leon.

Organisation: Catalonia: Catalonia Mapping Coordination Committee (C4) Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya (ICC) Parc de Montjuïc, s/n

08038 Barcelona

Contact person: Jaume Miranda i Canals

Job title: Alternate Chairperson

E-mail: [email protected] ; www.icc.cat

Telephone: 93 567 15 00

Role: The Catalonia Mapping Coordination Commission (C4) is the basic body for meeting, cooperation and coordination between the administration of the Regional Government of Catalonia (AGC) and the local administration of Catalonia (ALC) in the field of mapping and related geographic information. It is governed by Decree 398/2006 and is attached to the Department of Territory and Sustainability of the Regional Government of Catalonia (DTES). Its duties are: • To ensure that relations between the public administrations of

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Law 16/2005 and resolve any issues that may occur. • To issue a report on the draft Catalonia Mapping Plan (PCC),

and amendments or revisions thereof. • To lay down rules and standards to be applied to the

development of mapping and geographic information. • To ensure compliance with the objectives and priorities of

mapping activities in Catalonia, as laid down by the PCC. • To propose to the Regional Government such other

coordination measures as it may deem necessary. • To issue a report on the process of preparing provisions of the

Regional Government in the field of mapping and related geographic information, based on a report to be produced by the ICC.

• To ensure that rules and standards are disseminated, complied with, updated and made available in accordance with Article 10 of Law 16/2005 and that it is informed of the management of the Catalonia Mapping Registry (RCC).

• Apprise the ICC of the position of the local bodies in relation to initiatives of state, regional or international bodies; adopt, where appropriate, common positions for submission to the bodies in which it participates and be informed of the proceedings and relations with these bodies.

• To issue a statutory report on any actions brought before the Head of the DTES against decisions relating to entries in the RCC.

The C4, with the support of the ICC, coordinates and supports the implementation of the INSPIRE Directive in Catalonia. The ICC

is the point of contact of the High Geographic Council (CSG) in Catalonia.


Contact: Mapping Institute of Catalonia Address: Parc de Montjuïc, s/n 08038 Barcelona Telephone: 93 567 15 00 fax: 93 567 15 67 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.icc.cat Contact person: Joan Sendra Tarrida Telephone: 93 567 15 00 E-mail [email protected]


The C4 is the basic coordination body for geographic information in Catalonia and to carry out this task it has a standing support body, a legal instrument and two information dissemination bodies. Standing support body

Law 16/2005 stipulates that it falls to the ICC to exercise the powers of the Regional Government over Geodesy and Mapping and over the Spatial Data Infrastructure of Catalonia (IDEC). Its duties set out in Law 16/2005 include: • Developing and proposing the PCC and any appropriate

alterations and revisions to it. • To promote the C4, give it ongoing support and implement its

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members, within the scope of their respective powers. • To cooperate with AGE bodies with responsibilities for

mapping and coordinate and cooperate with the local authorities of Catalonia in this field.

• To direct and manage the RCC. • To create, structure, disseminate and maintain the IDEC in

accordance with national and regional regulations on spatial information structures and networks and cooperate with other entities and bodies of the Government to continuously improve the infrastructure.

• To encourage and promote public and private mapping services together with research, teaching and technological development in the field of mapping.

• To coordinate, in Catalonia, the implementation of standards and EU and international obligations relating to the duties of the ICC.

Among it support duties to the C4, the ICC is responsible, among other things, for drafting the reports monitoring the development of the PCC and implementing the INSPIRE Directive in Catalonia.

Coordination tool Catalonia has a basic tool for coordinating activities in mapping and related geographic information: the PCC.

The goal of the PCC is to determine the objectives and coordinate the mapping activities, establish and continuously improve the geographic information infrastructure of Catalonia and the exploitation and coordination of this information with sectoral public policies of regional scope.

The PCC identifies and defines the 113 Geographic Information Sets (CIGS) that the AGC and ALC produce and use in Catalonia. To that end, the PCC determines the structure, quality, availability, interoperability, updating of and conditions of access to the SDS. The CIGS of the PCC are collected in a catalogue arranged according to the themes of Annexes I, II and III of the INSPIRE Directive. A Group 0 was added to contain the mapping and topographic databases. For each of the CIGS, the catalogue sets out the following statutory specifications: • Name, unique identifier and INSPIRE classification group in

which the CIG is entered. • Administration, Regional Government department (if applicable)

and responsible body. • Authorisation level for access to information. • Minimum recommended update frequency. • Description:

Registration body for mapping and geographic information The RCC is the basic body for mapping and geographic information related to the AGC and local authorities of Catalonia; is assigned to the DTES and is managed and directed by the ICC. The RCC must contain all the mapping and geographic information that is classed as official; it must be catalogued in the IDEC.


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The regional and local administration of Catalonia must use the registered official mapping and official geographic information when producing new maps and when exercising the powers conferred on local authorities and other public bodies of Catalonia, where in the exercise of those powers they need to use mapping or geographic information or they need to base work on them. Basic body for the promotion, maintenance and dissemination of the IDEC

Law 16/2005 establishes the Catalonia Spatial Data Infrastructure Support Centre (CSIDEC) as a technical team and basic body to promote, operate and maintain the IDEC, with a view to disseminating applicable geospatial information and services, making it accessible and enable sharing. The CSIDEC has the following duties: • To promote and maintain the IDEC. • To present, describe and publicise existing geographic

information and the applicable services. • To disseminate the technological bases to make them

accessible, interoperable and shareable. • To act as a coordinating structure for the implementation and

maintenance of the IDEC, with input from producers, users, providers of value-added services and coordinating bodies, among others.

Organisational structure

The C4 has set up three technical committees for carrying out its activities: • Technical Committee for the deployment of the Catalonia

Mapping Plan and the INSPIRE Directive (CT1) • Technical Committee on Geographic Information of the local

administration of Catalonia (CT2) • Technical Committee for the European Earth Observation

Programme (CT3) In turn, Committee CT2 set up three working groups assigned to it

with specific assignments: • Working group for the preparation of technical specifications • Working group for the implementation of Catalonia Mapping

Registry

• Working group for the preparation of technical specifications for the streets database

Organisation: Valencia

Regional Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Environment Francesc Cubells 7

46011 Valencia

Contact person: Emilio Forcén Tárrega

Job title:

E-mail: [email protected] ; www.citma.gva.es

Telephone: 96 342 59 91

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agreement (published by the Resolution of 26 May 2010 by the Director-General of the Council!!, of the Regional Department of Industry, Trade and Innovation) with the central state administration, via the Presidency of the High Geographic Council, whereby the Regional Government is integrated into the National Mapping System, which is carrying out the integration of the geographic information infrastructure of Valencia into the national geographic information infrastructure. According to the Decree 5/2011 of 21 June 2011 within the administration of the Regional Government, the powers in the field of public works, land and coastline, housing and building quality, transport, ports and airports, environment, landscape, and climate change are assigned to the Regional Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Environment. This Regional Department is structured into the following senior bodies: the Regional Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport and the Regional Department of Territory, Environment and Landscape. According to Council Decree 75/2011 of 24 June 2011, the Regional Department of Infrastructure and Transport assumes the duties conferred upon it by Article 68 of the Council Law on public works, transport and logistics, ports, coasts, airports, own actions on land, architecture, urban projects and facilities, housing and building quality and mapping. By the same decree the Regional Secretariat for Territory, Environment and Landscape assumes the functions conferred upon it by Article 68 of the Council Law on the management, strategic planning and regional measures, landscape, natural areas and biodiversity, environmental assessment, spatial coordination, urban, environmental quality, waste and climate change.


Contact: Valencian Mapping Institute Address: C/Santos Justo y Pastor 116, Valencia, Telephone: 902 200 428, fax: 96 342 59 51, E-mail: [email protected] website: www.icv.gva.es Contact person: Laura Cabezudo de la Muela Telephone: 96 342 59 79 E-mail [email protected]


The Valencian Mapping Institute is a body of the Valencian Regional Government attached to the Regional Department that has powers in the field of spatial planning (currently the Department of Infrastructure, Land and Environment), with the aim of promoting, coordinating and, where appropriate, fostering the development of mapping, photogrammetric, geodetic and topographic tasks and other geographic technology within the scope of the powers of the Regional Government. The Valencian Mapping Institute has the following duties: (a) To set strategic objectives for geodesy, photogrammetry and mapping in Valencia, and develop geodetic and mapping plans in


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the long term. (b) To collect, classify, clean up and manage existing maps in the public administrations of Valencia and any other bodies under private law to create a mapping database. (c) To develop, reproduce and distribute basic mapping works, and the publish and disseminate other jobs as deemed appropriate. (d) To coordinate and supervise mapping work by the public administrations of Valencia. (e) To promote the mapping and geographic information systems of the public administrations of Valencia. (f) To train staff of public administrations in Valencia assigned to mapping duties. (g) To conduct research and development for new techniques in the field of geodetic, cartographic and topographic engineering. (h) To maintain relations and coordination with organisations of a similar nature in other Autonomous Communities, the State or internationally. (i) To create, structure and organise the Valencian Map Library. (j) To draft reports for the Valencian Government on all matters relating to mapping, and to produce such studies, suggestions or reports as it deems appropriate, in its area of competence. (k) To propose the Mapping Plan for Valencia, together with annual and multiannual plans. The ICV is responsible at regional level for integration of the Regional Government into the National Mapping System, in accordance with the agreement signed between the Central State Administration, through the Presidency of the High Geographic Council and the Regional Government, through the Regional Department of Environment, Water, Urban Development and Housing, of 15 April 2010. This agreement provides for the integration of the IDECV into the national geographic information infrastructure, and the development of the ICV web geo-portal that gives access to geographic information services.

Organisation: Extremadura

Extremadura Mapping and Regional Information Centre. Regional Department of Development, Housing, Spatial Planning and Tourism

Contact person: Carmen Caballero Cáceres

Job title:


Telephone: (34) 924332166 Fax: (34) 924332162

Role: Co-manager of the Spatial Data Infrastructure for Extremadura Coordinator of the SDI Thematic Committee of Extremadura Representative of the IDE OTALEX node in CODIIGE


Extremadura Mapping and Regional Information Council Spatial Data Infrastructure Thematic Committee of Extremadura. Extremadura Mapping and Regional Information Centre (CICTEx)


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Spatial Data Infrastructure for Extremadura [email protected] www.ideextremadura.com


The Extremadura Mapping and Regional Information Council was set up to coordinate the needs of mapping and regional information in Extremadura and organise its activity. The Spatial Data Infrastructure Thematic Committee of Extremadura is an advisory committee attached to the Extremadura Mapping and Regional Information Council that makes proposals for action in that area. The duties of CICTEx include: to manage and maintain the Regional Information System of Extremadura; to set up, structure and organise the geospatial data of Extremadura; to promote, maintain and coordinate the Spatial Data Infrastructure of Extremadura; to provide technical assistance to the Extremadura Mapping and Regional Information Council; to represent Extremadura on the High Geographic Council.

Organisation: Galicia

Regional Department of the Environment, Land and Infrastructure Land Survey Institute San Lázaro s/n

15781 – Santiago de Compostela

Contact person: Manuel Gallego Priego

Job title: Head of geographic information management


Telephone: Telephone: 981545817 | Fax: 981541757

Role: Manager of the Spatial Data Infrastructure of Galicia (IDEG) Representative of the Regional Government of Galicia in the CODIIGE


Geographic and Mapping Information Coordinating Committee

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The Land Survey Institute is the body responsible for collecting and processing information on the region of Galicia, and for map production for the various regional departments and bodies of the Autonomous Community of Galicia, notably including: 1. Coordination and dissemination of the geographic and mapping information needed to carry out the development of regional and urban development studies of the various regional departments and public bodies of the Autonomous Community, as well as technical support for dissemination and training measures on geographic information produced by the Regional Government of Galicia or in coordination with it. 2. Managing regional corporate information systems from the mapping and spatial databases at the request of the departments and other bodies of the Regional Government of Galicia, as well as any other information that can be located in the region and can be incorporated with its geographic reference for the management of Spatial Data Infrastructure for Galicia (IDEG). In this context, special attention will be paid to comprehensive collection and


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suitable treatment of toponymic data. To that end, the Institute of Land Studies will provide the necessary technical support to the regional department responsible for place names and the Place Names Committee will pay special attention to the proper use of place names in maps produced by the Regional Government of Galicia. 3. Preparation, maintenance and updating of geographic and mapping information necessary for conducting studies by the regional administration and management of tasks received from other departments or bodies of the Regional Government of Galicia, or administrations working in this field. 4. Archiving and processing of data relating to the regional indicators established in the spatial planning instruments. 5. Encourage innovation, adoption and development of technologies and infrastructures in the field of geographic information in the Galicia region. It will also address the planning and development of value-added services and new geographic information systems and applications for Galicia. 6. Facilitate public access to geographic information and technology to promote knowledge of the region and its values, thus contributing to the conservation, protection and sustainable development of Galicia.

Organisation:

Madrid

Directorate-General for Urban Planning and Regional Strategy Regional Department of Environment and Spatial Planning c/ Alcalá, 16

28014 Madrid

Contact person: Rafael Herrero García

Job title: Unit Head at the Regional Mapping Information Centre


Telephone: 914382797

Role: Responsible for the IDEM and the SDSs of the official topographic and thematic bases of Madrid


Regional Mapping Information Centre Directorate-General for Urban Planning and Regional Strategy c/ Alcalá, 16 28014 Madrid E-mail: [email protected] Viewer: www.madrid.org/cartografia idem. www.madrid.org/cartografia/idem


Decree 11/2013 of 14 February 2013 of the Governing Council of Madrid (Official Gazette of Madrid, 20/02/2013) The preparation, updating and publication of photogrammetric coverage, orthoimagery series, topographic maps and thematic maps produced by Madrid, including preparation and maintenance of digital topographic databases. The coordination of the activities of the Regional Administration in mapping, with exclusive jurisdiction over the official map series of Madrid, as well as representing the Region on mapping cooperation bodies with other


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administrations. The preparation of urban development and regional databases and maintenance of a regional urban development information system.

Organisation: Murcia

Regional Department of Public Works and Spatial Planning. Plaza de Santoña, 6. 30071 Murcia

Contact person: Ramón Pablo García García

Job title: Head of Mapping at the CARM


Telephone: Telephone: 968 362435 | Fax:

Role: Coordinator of the Spatial Data Infrastructure for the Region of Murcia (IDERM).

Coordination structure: Contact:

Directorate-General for Transport and Ports. Address: Plaza de Santoña, 6. Telephone: 968 362435, Fax: E-mail: [email protected] website: http://www.iderm.es Contact person: Ramón Pablo García Garcia Telephone: 96 342 59 79 E-mail: [email protected]


The CARM Mapping Service has the following duties: (a) Performance of the work necessary to implement geodetic and and lower level networks capable of providing, owing to their density and proximity to the user, the necessary geodetic-topographic infrastructure for producing, maintaining and updating maps and geo-referencing for any work, study or project in the region. (b) Development of basic and thematic mapping, either by conventional means or by remote sensing and computerised mapping and thematic data for the creation of a database of such data. (c) Publication, archiving and dissemination in graphic, photographic or digital form of documents generated by previous activities. (d) Coordination of mapping activities with central administration bodies working in that field. (e) Coordination with the local administration on mapping and advising them when its services are required. (f) Providing mapping support to meet the needs of the various players in the region. (g) Any other duties that may be assigned to it within the scope of its powers.


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Organisation: Navarre

SITNA Coordinating Committee Parque Tomás Caballero, 1, 3a

31005 PAMPLONA

Contact person: Andrés Valentín

Job title: Head of Regional Information Systems

E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]

Telephone: (34) 848 427956/630 080101

Role: Secretary of the SITNA Coordinating Committee, member of CODIIGE

Member of the Specialist IDEE Committee


SITNA Coordinating Committee

Standing committee Technical committee INSPIRE workshop

INSPIRE working groups www.idena.navarra.es


The SITNA Coordination Committee was founded by the decision of the Government of Navarre of 19 March 2001. The Spatial Data Infrastructure for Navarre (IDENA) was published in 2005. The SITNA Coordination Committee has the following duties: To approve, develop and assess the SITNA Strategic Plan. To that effect, it approves the annual action plans and corresponding reports. To coordinate the units of the administration of the Autonomous Community in terms of geographic information. To promote the availability of financial, technological, human, and training resources needed for the development of SITNA. To coordinate and optimise those resources. To approve the methodology, classifications, coding and other instruments needed for the development of SITNA. To implement, monitor and assess the annual action plans, maintain SITNA information, the measures required to update it and the accurate instrumental work to develop the SITNA objectives. To deploy the data, metadata and services required by Directive 2007/2/EC establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) and Law 14-2010, on geographic information infrastructure and services in Spain (LISIGE).

Organisation: Government of Rioja

Contact person: Gonzalo López García

Job title: Head of Geographic Information Systems and Mapping Section


Telephone: (34)941.291.100 ext 33578

Role: Spatial Data Infrastructure Manager of Rioja


Geographic Information Systems and Mapping Section

Spatial Planning Service


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Directorate-General for Urban Development and Housing Regional Department of Public Works, Local and Regional Policy


Decree 47/2011 of 6 July 2011 establishing the organisational structure of the Ministry of Public Works, Local and Regional Policy and its roles in implementing Law 3/2003 of 3 March 2003 on the organisation of the public sector in the Autonomous Community of Rioja. Article 6. Administrative duties 2.5. Of the Directorate-General for Urban Development and Housing

(d) The planning, development and management of policy on mapping and the geographic information systems of the Autonomous Community of Rioja

Organisation: Basque Government

Contact person: Maria Elena Lete Garcia

Job title: Director of Regional Planning and Urban Development


Telephone: Telephone: 945 019824 | Fax:

Role: Director of Regional Planning and Urban Development President of the Steering Committee of the Basque SDI President of the Interdepartmental Information Committee for the SDI of the Basque Country


Contact: Directorate of Regional Planning and Urban Development Address: C/ Donostia - San Sebastián, 1. Telephone: 945 019824 Fax: E-mail: [email protected] website: http://www.geo.euskadi.net Contact person: Maria Elena Lete Garcia Telephone: 945 019824 E-mail: [email protected]


The responsibilities of the Directorate of Regional Planning and Urban Development, through the Mapping Service of the Basque Government, include the following: - To promote and coordinate the Spatial Data Infrastructure of the Basque Country and its geo-portal www.geo.euskadi.net, promoting the dissemination and reuse of geographic information and services. - To develop the official basic mapping of the Basque Government and make it available to the Basque SDI, monitoring the maintenance of the Basque mapping and geodetic infrastructure. - To coordinate the production of geographic information in the administration of the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, to provide harmonised, quality geographic data, identifying current and future needs and ensuring compliance with the provisions of European legislation on spatial data infrastructure in the European Union (INSPIRE). - To disseminate and provide technical assistance in mapping, geodetics and geographic information, promoting the use,


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distribution and exploitation of geographic information and services of the Basque SDI.

10.2 List of references for compiling the report

Documents cited Cívico, Georgina. 2011. Impacto socioeconómico de la Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales de Cataluña (II)(link)

Garcia, Pilar; Moix, Montse; Queraltó, Pau. 2008: Impacto Socio-Económico de la Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales de Cataluña. In Craglia Massimo (ed.) EUR-Scientific and Technical Research Series. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities (link)

Muñoz, Jenny; Capdevila, Joan. 2012: Trayectoria de la implementación de INSPIRE en España. Part of the Jornadas Ibéricas de las Infraestructuras de Datos Espaciales (JIIDE), Madrid, 17-19 October 2012 (link)

Vandenbroucke, Danny & Biliouris, Dimitrios. 2011: Spatial Data Infrastructures in Spain: State of play K.U.Leuven (link)

Legislation cited

European

• Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2007 establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) (link)

• Commission Decision 2009/442/EC of 5 June 2009 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards monitoring and reporting (link)

• Commission Regulation (EC) No 976/2009 of 19 October 2009, as regards the Network Services (link)

• Commission Regulation (EU) No 1088/2010 of 23 November 2010 amending Regulation (EC) No 976/2009 as regards download services and transformation services (link)

• Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 regarding interoperability of spatial data sets and services (link)

Spanish

• Law 14/2010 of 5 July 2010 on geographic infrastructure and information services in Spain (LISIGE) (link)


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• Royal Decree 1545/2007 of 23 November 2007 regulating the National Mapping System (SCN) (link)

• Ministerial Order FOM/956/2008 of 31 March 2008 approving the dissemination policy for public geographic information generated (link)

Regional

• Decree 141/2006 of 18 July 2006 on the mapping activity of the Autonomous Community of Andalusia (link)

• Andalusia Mapping Plan 2009-2012, approved by the Governing Council Agreement of 16 September 2008 (link)

• Decree 208/2010 of 16 November 2010 of the Government of Aragon, approving the Regulation on Geographic Information in Aragon (link)

• Aragon Mapping Plan 2013-2016, approved by the Resolution of the Governing Council of 16 March 2013 (link)

• Law 16/2005 of 27 December 2005 on geographic information and the Mapping Institute of Catalonia (link)

• Decree 398/2006 of 24 October 2006 approving the implementing regulation of Law 16/2005 of 27 December 2005 on geographic information and the Mapping Institute of Catalonia with regard to the official status and use of mapping services and inter-administration relations and planning (link)

• Decree 62/2010 of 18 May 2010 approving the Mapping Plan of Catalonia (link)

• Decree 27/2012 of 19 July 2012 governing the conditions of use of mapping and geographic information produced by the Regional Government of Castile-Leon, and setting public prices for the service to be put on physical media (link)

ISO standards in the 19100 family

• ISO 19113: Geographic information -- Quality principles

• ISO 19114: Geographic information -- Quality evaluation procedures

• ISO 19115: Geographic information -- Metadata

• ISO 19119: Geographic information -- Services

• ISO 19131: Geographic information -- Data product specifications

• ISO 19138: Geographic information -- Data quality measures

• ISO 19139: Geographic information -- Metadata -- XML schema implementation


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Websites cited

INSPIRE

• INSPIRE portal: http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

• INSPIRE monitoring and reporting page: http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/182

• INSPIRE metadata validator: http://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/validator2/

• INSPIRE catalogue client: http://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/discovery/

• INSPIRE catalogue registry: http://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/INSPIRERegistry/

European projects

• OTALEXC : www.ideotalex.eu

• EUREF: http://www.euref-iag.net/

• EURADIN: https://www.euradin.eu/default.aspx

• GIS4EU: http://www.gis4eu.eu/default.asp?l=5

• eWater project: http://ewater.geolba.ac.at/

• OneGeology-Europe project: http://www.onegeology-europe.org/

• HLANDATA: http://www.hlandata.eu/

• GMES – Copernicus: http://copernicus.eu/

• EIONET: www.eionet.europa.eu

• ETC/SIA: http://www.etcsia.uma.es/

• HELM: http://www.fp7helm.eu/

IDEE

• IDEE geo-portal: http://www.idee.es

• IDEE web discovery service: http://www.idee.es/csw-inspire-idee/servicio

• IDEE blog: http://blog-idee.blogspot.com.es

• SobreIDEs bulletin: http://www.idee.es/web/guest/boletin-sobre-ides

http://www.fp7helm.eu/


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• Gestor S&I: http://gestorsi.idee.es

• INSPIRE 2010 monitoring wiki: http://seguimientoinspire2010.wikispaces.com/

• INSPIRE 2011 monitoring wiki: http://seguimientoinspire2011.wikispaces.com/

• Regional geo-portals catalogue: http://www.idee.es/web/guest/regional

• JIIDE website: http://www.idee.es/web/guest/jornadas

Geo-portals managed by the CSIC

• SILEX: Casa Montero SDI: http://www.casamontero.org/wui/geo/map.html

• IDEZAM: SDI for Las Medullas archaeological zone: www.idezam.es/

• SigMayores: Social and Health Resources mapping server: http://sigmayores.csic.es/visor/visor.html

• Anthos: Information System on plants in Spain: www.anthos.es

• GBIF: Spain: Global Biodiversity Information Facility: www.gbif.es/

• Bio-geography geo-portal: www.mncn.es

• Digital monitoring mapping of Doñana National Park: http://mercurio.ebd.csic.es/seguimiento/

• IMEDEA geo-portal: http://www.imedea.uib.es/gis/geoportal/ 86

Other national portals and projects

• MAGRAMA SDI portal: http://www.magrama.gob.es/es/cartografia-y-sig/ide/

• Hydrocarbons portal of the Ministry of Industry: http://geoportal.mityc.es/hidrocarburos/eess/

• Housing atlas: http://atlas.vivienda.es/

• Cartociudad project: http://www.cartociudad.es/visor/

• PNOA project: http://www.ign.es/PNOA/

• SIOSE project: http://www.siose.es/siose/

• CENG website: http://www.csg-cnc.es

• FEGA: http://www.fega.es

• Conference on geographical names (link)


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IDEC:

• Geo-portal: http://www.geoportal-idec.cat/

• IDEC catalogue: http://www.geoportal-idec.net/geoportal/cas/index.jsp

• SDI in earth observation: http://www.geoportal-idec.cat/geoportal/ideot/

• Catalogue of sensors in Catalonia: http://www.geoportal-idec.cat/geoportal/sensors/cat/

• IDEC universe: http://www.geoportal-idec.cat/ideunivers/local.jsp

• IDEC coastal: http://www.geoportal-idec.net/idecostes/index.jsp

• IDEC local: http://www.geolocal.cat/idelocal/

Tools

• CatMDEdit programme: http://catmdedit.sourceforge.net/

• MetaD programme: http://www.geoportal-idec.cat/ideunivers/es/metad.html

• Geonetwork programme: http://geonetwork-opensource.org/

Forums

• ILAF website: http://external.opengeospatial.org/twiki_public/ILAFpublic/

• GIS mailing list: http://www.rediris.es/list/info/sig.html

• IDEE mailing list: http://www.rediris.es/list/info/idee.html

Private projects

• Goolzom: http://www.goolzoom.com/

• Wikiloc: http://es.wikiloc.com

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