Ewa Surma
National Contact Point for INSPIRE
Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography
Poland

Biography
Ewa Surma graduated from the University of Mining and Metallurgy in Cracow, Poland (M.Sc.Eng). Her studies concentrated in the area of Cadastral Surveying and Land Management. She continued her studies at the post graduate level in the field of GIS. She gained experience as a project engineer in field of land surveying in the United States of America where she worked on a number of commercial construction projects in the State of Massachusetts. She currently works for the Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography in Warsaw where she is involved with the implementation of INSPIRE directive in Poland as its National Contact Point. Her connections with INSPIRE go back to 2004 since then she has participated in various thematic work groups and cooperated with institutions engaged in matters regarding INSPIRE. As National Contact Point she is responsible for yearly monitoring exercise and the three yearly reports on implementing INSPIRE directive in Poland.

Abstract
Polish INSPIRE Coordination and Regional Achievements on SDI

Poland transposed INSPIRE directive in 2010, since that time legal mechanisms for coordination of spatial information, data sharing between public authorities or interoperability for spatial data sets and services exist. Presentation depicts best practices on national coordination‚ solutions introduced in SII act and their results in practice, success stories and also last activities of Spatial Information Infrastructure Council. Furthermore worth to mention are challenges regarding Spatial Information Infrastructure that we face in our every day work. Although Poland is not a federal country in our Act on Spatial Information Infrastructure also regional activities are foreseen. In the last report on INSPIRE implementation for years 2010-2013 there were mentioned regional activities mostly regarding regional geoportals. In presentation example of Polish region experience will be introduced with the emphasis on building regional SDI with the spirit of the technological progress and also with the user requirements and needs of the region's population. The above mentioned examples from national and regional field will sketch the development of INSPIRE in Poland.