The Irish Statutory Instrument 382/2010 implementing the EU INSPIRE Directive came into effect on 1 August. The S.I. is published in the Irish Statute Book of the Office of the Attorney General.

Compass Informatics will be represented at a special ESDIN Project workshop to be held in EuroGeographics new Brussels offices on 7 September. INSPIRE expert Roger Longhorn, who also serves on three of the ESDIN Project Reference Groups, will be attending the workshop titled "Bridging theory and practice - a new business model for maximising the use of public sector geospatial reference data." See more about the workshop at this link.

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Roger Longhorn, Compass Informatics INSPIRE expert, will deliver a keynote presentation at the GeoValue 2010 Workshop to be held in Hamburg, Germany, from 30 September to 2 October, hosted by HafenCity University Hamburg. This workshop presents an expansion of the discussions held last year in at GeoValue '09 in Hannover. Longhorn's keynote is titled "Valuing the Invaluable: a Geoinformation Conundrum" and examines the issues surrounding assigning... Read More »

Compass Informatics INSPIRE expert, Roger Longhorn, delivered a presentation at the INSPIRE 2010 Conference in Krakow, Poland, on 25 June, for a paper co-authored by Compass staff who are working on Irish SDI and INSPIRE Directive implementation in Ireland. The co-authors were Gearoid O'Riain, Manuel Treiber and Alison Robinson on a paper titled "Experiences in Developing an INSPIRE Compliance Toolkit - Are Tools Alone Enough?". The presentation can... Read More »

Compass INSPIRE/SDI Expert, Roger Longhorn, will be delivering one of the keynote presentations at the 10th Saxonian GIS-Forum (GI2010), organised by IGN e.V., which is taking place in Dresden 14 – 15 May 2010. The GI2010 Symposium - "10. Sächsisches GIS-Forum - Europe of Regions –Sustainability of Inter-regional Collaboration” is to be held in the framework of the European Community's Directives on Public Sector Information re-use and INSPIRE – Infrastructure... Read More »

Compass Informatics held another in their series of INSPIRE Master Classes, on 17 February 2010 at their offices in Blackrock, Dublin. Rather than the usual full day workshop covering most aspects of INSPIRE, this half-day event focused on the workflows required to locate, create and publish INSPIRE-compliant metadata. Metadata is covered by the first of the INSPIRE implementing rules to be adopted as an EC Regulation, on 3 December 2008. Under this... Read More »

Compass INSPIRE Expert, Roger Longhorn, participated in the EuroSDR workshop on “Atlas of INSPIRE Implementation Methods, on 14-15 January 2010, hosted by IGN Belgium at the Club Prince Albert in Brussels. The workshop was attended by 22 staff representing the official SDI and INSPIRE implementation efforts in 10 countries, including Switzerland and Croatia. The purpose of the meeting, the second in this project, was to review progress to date on building the Atlas of INSPIRE Implementation Methods’, focusing on identifiable ‘best practice’ and challenges that have arisen since INSPIRE was published in 2007. Research staff from SADL at K. U. Leuven Belgium, plus ITC and Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands were on hand, who are involved in the analytical work underpinning the Atlas development. Also present was Luc Van Linden, of 1Spatial, who is part of the team currently developing the Transformation Service Technical Guidelines for INSPIRE.

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The INSPIRE Directive (Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe) was published in April 2007 and was to be adopted into national law by all EU Member States by 15 May 2009. While many States have yet to adopt the enacting legislation in their countries, all are in the process of implementing national SDIs, which must now take account of the specific implementation rules dictated by INSPIRE. These rules are being promulgated as a series of EC Regulations and/or Decisions covering metadata creation and publishing, data and services interoperability, access and sharing principles, and monitoring and reporting requirements. All Member States have one government department appointed as being officially responsible for coordinating implementation of INSPIRE in their countries and acting as the official interface to the European Commission during the implementation period and for later monitoring and reporting activities.

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