[OSM-legal-talk] European Union Inspire Directive

[Katleen Janssen]

Dear Erik,

The INSPIRE directive addresses first and foremost the sharing of spatial data between public authorities, both from a technical point of view and from an organisational point of view. On a second level, it also addresses public access to network services. It is important for OpenStreetMap in the sense that the public authorities have to create several types of services for all the data themes that are included in the INSPIRE directive (there are 34 and they are fairly broad). These services include discovery services (metadata), viewing services, download services and transformation services. 

The directive itself does not address re-use of geographic data, so OpenStreetMap cannot obtain data directly under INSPIRE legislation, but of course many public authorities will most likely also make the services that they have to develop anyway, available for use by other parties. So indirectly the developments of the INSPIRE directive are quite important. 

Best regards,
Katleen


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From: legal-talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org [legal-talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Erik Johansson [erjohan at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 1:29 AM
To: Licensing and other legal discussions.
Subject: [OSM-legal-talk] European Union Inspire Directive

Is there someone who know more about the Inspire EU directive for
Geodata from 2007, and can highlight things that are important for
Openstreetmap? They are working on the implementation here in Sweden,
it would be of great help to get any input.


The only thing, I've found, that is interesting for Openstreetmap.
(19) "it should be possible to search for geodata"
(26) Stimulating value adding services


The directive is here:
English:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2007:108:0001:0014:EN:PDF
Swedish:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2007:108:0001:0014:SV:PDF
Just change the SV to FR/DE/ES to get other languages.


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