Karel Charvat
Project Manager
Help Service Remote Sensing
Czech Republic

Abstract
Data Versus Apps - the SDI4apps Project

The potential of geographic information (GI) collected by various actors ranging from public administration to voluntary initiatives of citizens is not fully exploited. The advancements of ICT technologies and shift towards Linked Open Data give floor to innovation.

The establishment of SDIs has largely been driven by the ?traditional? GI community and the national and European policies governing this sector. Geographic information is no longer a separate information space but finds itself part of a larger European information space where the ultimate objective is the creation of value-added services based on use and reuse of public sector information as defined by the PSI and INSPIRE directives rather than exchange of ?layers? between different GIS software.

The contribution will present how open (spatial) data can be transformed into applications using the INSPIRE data specifications. Several examples from the SDI4Apps project (http://sdi4apps.eu/) will demonstrate this approach.