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Share-PSI 2.0 Best Practice Prioritise Publication of Spatial Data

Source: https://www.w3.org/2013/share-psi/wiki/Best_Practices/The_Central_Role_of_Location

Outline

Location data pours from mobile devices, stationary sensors, airborne imaging systems and modelling applications. The explosion in location data offers great potential. Integration of human, physical, and digital systems operating in the built environment can improve governance, business, resilience and quality of life. Too often, though, location data is locked up in ad hoc and proprietary encodings and interfaces. To address this problem, government, private sector, and academic organizations use the OGC consensus process to cooperatively define, develop, test, document, validate and approve interface and encoding standards and best practices that solve interoperability problems.

Solving these difficult geospatial communication problems requires open standard encodings and interfaces. Governments should prioritise information with spatial components, expressed in open standard formats, in order to enable a wide range of potential reuses.

Management summary

Challenge

Spatial data plays an important role in many parts of the public administration. The goal is to make all this data available as open data, following open standards and open data models.

Solution

By applying standards developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium and W3C, public sector information can be provided in an efficient and interoperable way to many other data sets and processing or visualization components. The best practice recommendation given herein is to use standards such as WFS, WMS, GML, IndoorGML, CityGML, SOS, or other standards to ensure standardized access to all public sector information with spatial characteristics.

Best Practice identification

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

By using OGC and W3C standards to publish public sector information, it becomes much easier to integrate this information with other data sets that are served at similar interfaces. Data becomes discoverable using standardized catalogs and can be used as part of initiatives such as INSPIRE, the European Spatial Data infrastructure.

Links to the PSI Directive

Reuse

Why is there a need for this Best Practice?

Most of valuable public sector information has spatial components to it. In order to make maximal use of this data, it shall be made available at standardized interfaces following standardized formats. By using standards produced by the OGC and W3C, a very high level of interoperability is ensured, paving paths to new businesses and further commercialization.

What do you need for this Best Practice?

This best practice is based on OGC and W3C technologies. All it takes is making public sector information available at OGC Web service implementations.

Applicability to other Member States

This best practice is applicable in all countries. These standards are used world wide.

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