[OSGeo-Discuss] R: Improving usability of INSPIRE data in FOSS4G client applications

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Congrats for your work, Alex and Marco! Very useful indeed!
Thanks. Cheers,
Maria

Da: Discuss <discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> Per conto di Jochen Albrecht
Inviato: giovedì 12 dicembre 2019 17:17
A: Marco Minghini <marco.minghini86 at gmail.com>
Cc: Marco.MINGHINI at ec.europa.eu; discuss at lists.osgeo.org
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Improving usability of INSPIRE data in FOSS4G client applications


This is extremely useful!
Thank you, Marco.

Dr. Jochen Albrecht, GISP
Professor for Computational and Theoretical Geography
Department of Geography and Environmental Science
Hunter College, City University of New York
695 Park Avenue - HN 1030
New York, NY 10065


On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 11:09 AM Marco Minghini <marco.minghini86 at gmail.com<mailto:marco.minghini86 at gmail.com>> wrote:
Dear all,
at the European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC) we have been working with our Contractors (WeTransform and Epsilon Italia) on a set of actions aimed at improving the usability of INSPIRE data sets. For those who are not familiar with INSPIRE [1], this is the European Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) built on top EU Member States infrastructures to support European environmental policies.

The rationale behind these actions is that GML is the default encoding for INSPIRE data because INSPIRE xml schemas are generated automatically from the conceptual UML models. These schemas are complex and many existing (web, desktop and mobile) client applications are not able to fully consume or make use of data shared according to these schemas.

Two actions have been completed over the last year in order to:
1) improve client support for INSPIRE data
2) develop an alternative encoding for INSPIRE data (GeoJSON)

Within the first Action [2], we compiled a "can I use" matrix [3] describing which functionality associated with the consumption of INSPIRE data (both in GML and GeoJSON) is supported by which client. The clients tested are QGIS, GRASS GIS, hale studio, OpenLayers and LeafletJS as well as some proprietary solutions.

This e-mail is first of all to inform you about this Action and to show that, as you can notice in [3], open source solutions are currently the most successful ones, but some improvement is still possible. In this regard, we have established communication with the software PSC and/or communities and discussed the prioritisation of functionalities that should be improved or developed for each software to best satisfy user needs.

Whenever other encodings (e.g. GeoPackage) for INSPIRE data will become available, the same approach should be followed.

In addition, since the Action is formally completed but the outcomes will still be very important for the INSPIRE community in the future, we are currently exploring how to ensure the sustainability of the tool. In particular, we would open an invitation to anyone (project developers, users or communities, or simply interested people) to contribute to keep the matrix up-to-date by testing new/future versions of specific OSGeo tools (in particular those mentioned above - QGIS, GRASS GIS, OpenLayers and LeafletJS - but also other tools). The tests, described at [4], consist of general GIS tasks and do not require INSPIRE-specific knowledge. Interested people can also submit content through issues or pull requests in the GitHub repository [5] or contact us.

Thank you all for your attention.
Best regards,
Alex and Marco


[1] https://inspire.ec.europa.eu
[2] https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/wikis/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=418580131
[3] https://inspire-mif.github.io/caniuse/generator/out.html
[4] https://github.com/INSPIRE-MIF/caniuse/tree/master/docs
[5] https://github.com/INSPIRE-MIF/caniuse
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