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Best Practices/Standardized geo-spatial data processing
Share-PSI 2.0 Best Practice
Source:
- Best_Practices/Publish_spatial_data_on_the_web
- Using Best_Practices/DigMap-digital_map_excerpt
- Best_Practices/The_Central_Role_of_Location
- Best Practices/Standards for Geospecial data
Contents
Outline of the best practice
The goal is to provide efficient and optimal approach for dealing with geo-spatial aspects of data.
Management summary
Challenge
A number of data sets has references to locations, often in the form of cities, rivers, administrative areas etc. 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.
Solution
Either link the data set to an authoritative geospatial reference entity, which allows discovering the full data set, or even better, serve the data set using standards developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) to make sure all elements can be accessed in a standardized way. All data should be described using ISO metadata standards from the 191xx series of standards to ensure reliable discovery.
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
Why is there a need for this Best Practice?
It is needed to speed-up the process of establishing an infrastructure for spatial information in Europe and establishing a repository of open-source tools that facilitate geo-spatial data processing.
What do you need for this Best Practice?
Follow the OGC recommendations and use the OGC services. See also Best Practices/Standards for Geospecial data.
Applicability by other Member States
This best practice is applicable in all countries. These standards are used world wide.
Contact info
- For editorial issues: valentina.janev@institutepupin.com