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Dean Hintz

Representing an INSPIRE stakeholder organisation not registered as an SDIC or LMO
Organisation: 
Safe Software
Expert Information
Name: 
Dean
Surname: 
Hintz
Email: 
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Organisation: 
Safe Software
Country: 
Canada
Expertise
Network services and spatial data services: 
BEST PRACTICE, Impact Assessment, Download Services, Implementation in the Member States, Service architecture, Transformation services, Invoke services & spatial data services, VIEW SERVICES, Web service standards (e.g. OGC, ISO, OASIS, W3C), XML schemas, Web standards (e.g. XML, Atom, OpenSearch)
Networking Expertise: 
More than a decade of support for partners and users publishing INSPIRE web services and consuming data from them using a wide range of INSPIRE themes. Numerous implementations built on INSPIRE SDI. One recent example is the Helsinki Hackathon Flood Warning Assistant that won second place overall. This integrated INSPIRE services with real time data feeds hosted on Amazon AWS. For more info see: https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/100678/inspire-flood-warning-assistant-tutorial.html https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/1340/create-inspire-atom-download-service.html
INSPIRE applications and software components: 
National geoportals, Value-added services and applications
INSPIRE applications and software components Expertise: 
Supported a range of INSPIRE implementations and geoportals for our partners and users. Supported integrations built on combinations of internal and INSPIRE data streams.
Thematic knowledge related to one or more INSPIRE themes: 
Buildings, Cadastral parcels, Coordinate reference systems, Geographical names, Geology, Administrative units, Addresses, Elevation, Human health and safety, Soil, Sea regions, Transport networks, Protected sites, Oceanographic geographical features, Natural risk zones, Orthoimagery, Hydrography, Land use, Land cover
Thematic knowledge related to one or more INSPIRE themes Expertise: 
Experience with themes from all INSPIRE Annexes. Responsible for product management and testing related to FME's INSPIRE GML support. Evaluated tests and provided support related to the selected themes.
Cross-cutting technical issues and INSPIRE architecture: 
INSPIRE implementation / strategy in MS, Computing infrastructures
Cross-cutting technical issues and INSPIRE architecture Expertise: 
Lead coordinator for INSPIRE at Safe Software for more than a decade. Support for partners (con terra, Sweco, 1-Spatial, ESRI etc) and users implementing architectures that integrate between internal vendor based systems, national standards and INSPIRE SDI. Numerous implementations built on INSPIRE SDI. One recent example is the Helsinki Hackathon Flood Warning Assistant that won second place overall. This integrated INSPIRE services with real time data feeds hosted on Amazon AWS. For more info see: https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/100678/inspire-flood-warning-assistant-tutorial.html
Interoperability of spatial data sets and services: 
Implementation in the Member States, Interoperability of spatial data sets and services INSPIRE Technical Guidelines: Data specification framework documents (D2.5, D2.6, D2.7, D2.9), Encoding standards (e.g. GML, RDF), Coverages, Data quality, Data transformation, ETL, XML schemas
Interoperability Expertise: 
More than 15 years as a Senior Analyst with Safe Software building data integrations with the FME platform. Extensive support for our many European partners (con terra etc). Lead coordinator for INSPIRE at Safe Software for more than a decade. More than 12 years experience with INSPIRE. Presented at most INSPIRE conferences starting with Rotterdam 2009: "Case Studies in Data Harmonization for SDI Initiatives". Published a number of papers related to data integration and INSPIRE. Published a tutorial supporting FME users working with INSPIRE. More than 12 years experience working with the OGC community on open standards related to data interoperability including participation on a number of testbeds, pilots and assistance with the development of CityGML, IndoorGML, S-121 GML and others. For example, this paper was presented at INSPIRE Istanbul in 2012: http://cdn.safe.com/resources/fme/Data-Harmonization-Principles-INSPIRE.pdf INSPIRE FME Tutorial: https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/1321/eu-inspire-initiative-tutorial.html