INSPIRE Technical Guidance documents

The purpose of this repository is to host the INSPIRE Technical Guidance documents (hereafter INSPIRE TGs) and manage the changes to them.

The issue tracker of this repository should only be used to submit and discuss change proposals to the TGs. Should you have any questions relating to the use of the TGs or relating to general INSPIRE matters please use the INSPIRE helpdesk.

The INSPIRE TGs describe detailed implementation aspects and relations with existing standards, technologies, and practices, see also https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/inspire-technical-guidance/57753.

Status

All INSPIRE TGs will be converted from the original pdf format to the AsciiDoc format and published in this repository, according to the order and timing defined in the conversion plan.

Currently, the following TGs have been converted:

• Metadata
  • Metadata-iso19139 (PDF, HTML)
• Services
  • Discovery Services (PDF, HTML)
  • Download Services (PDF, HTML)
  • View Services (PDF, HTML)
• Data
  • Administrative Units (PDF, HTML)
  • Agricultural and Aquaculture Facilities (PDF, HTML)
  • Area Management/Restriction/Regulation Zones and Reporting Units (PDF, HTML)
  • Buildings (PDF, HTML)
  • Coordinate reference systems (PDF, HTML)
  • Elevation (PDF, HTML)
  • Environmental Monitoring Facilities (PDF, HTML)
  • Geographical Grid Systems (PDF, HTML)
  • Geology (PDF, HTML)
  • Habitats and Biotopes (PDF, HTML)
  • Hydrography (PDF, HTML)
  • Human Health and Safety (PDF, HTML)
  • Land Cover (PDF, HTML)
  • Land Use (PDF, HTML)
  • Natural Risk Zones (PDF, HTML)
  • Orthoimagery (PDF, HTML)
  • Production and Industrial Facilities (PDF, HTML)
  • Protected Sites (PDF, HTML)
  • Soil (PDF, HTML)
  • Species Distribution (PDF, HTML)
  • Statistical Units (PDF, HTML)
  • Transport Networks (PDF, HTML)
  • Utility and Government Services (PDF, HTML)

The following TGs are available in the original pdf format:

• Data
  • Addresses (PDF)
  • Atmospheric Conditions (PDF)
  • Bio-geographical Regions (PDF)
  • Cadastral Parcels (PDF)
  • Energy Resources (PDF)
  • Geographical Names (PDF)
  • Meteorological Geographical Features (PDF)
  • Mineral Resources (PDF)
  • Oceanographic Geographical Features (PDF)
  • Population Distribution and Demography (PDF)
  • Sea Regions (PDF)

Governance and release process

Change proposals to the TGs can be proposed and discussed in the issue tracker of this repository. These change proposals are then subject to the specific governance and release process, whose workflow and actors involved are detailed in this document.

IACS Spatial Data Sharing - Technical Guidelines

IACS technical guidelines are available here.

Code of Conduct

Please follow our Code of Conduct anytime you interact with the INSPIRE community in this space.

Background

This repository is setup within Action 2.3 of the INSPIRE MIWP 2021-2024.