Share-PSI 2.0 Best Practice

Discover By Location

Source:

• Best Practices/The Central Role of Location
• Best Practices/References to spatial entities
• Best Practices/Publish spatial data on the web
• Best Practices/DigMap- digital map excerpt

Outline

Spatial information is helpful as a way of finding information.

Management summary

Challenge

To make information discoverable by relating it to location

Solution

Publishers should enrich information relating to real-world features (cities, rivers, mountains, etc.) or geo-political and geo-statistical

entities (administrative areas, census and survey areas, etc) with identifiers and links to their respective geospatial entities using

standard approaches such as ISO 19115

Best Practice identification

Why is this a Best Practice? What’s the impact of the Best Practice

Information needs to be discovered in order to be used. Improvements to the discoverability of information improve the chances that it will

be reused. Incorporating geospatial identifiers helps people to develop applications that facilitate the discovering information relevant to

specific locations e.g. through GPS-enabled devices such as mobile phones.

Links to the PSI Directive

formats

Why is there a need for this Best Practice?

A core requirement of the PSI Directive is that information which is published is readily discoverable, and geospatial co-ordinates provide a

way of doing this

What do you need for this Best Practice?

• Ability to publish information in open formats
• link the information elements to an authoritative geospatial reference entity

Applicability to other Member States

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