Hi Jordi,

Thank you for this nice overview.

I wonder, when you looked through the Geoportal in the EL and OI themes, could you find some examples (GML, ATOM) providing data that seemed be shared in a harmonised form or was everything shared more or less in an 'as is' form?

Looking in to the nationalwide examples, I didn't run to any implementation from the LC and LU themes, that had implemented the raster data models and I'm therefore looking into examples from other themes.

Could you please guide me to more less INSPIRE complient examples data providers provide harmonised raster data from an ATOM-feed? I know that the provision of data using an ATOM-feed isn't in many way optimal, but from what I've understood it is not yet possible to provide fully INSPIRE-harmonised data (aligned with the raster data models of the TGs) from a WCS service produced for example with GeoServer. Correct me if I'm wrong :)

Kind regards,

Lena

Dear Lena,

Sorry for the delay in answering.

As far as I know, at the moment there is no information available in the INSPIRE Thematic Viewer about how many (or which percentage of) datasets are provided in an harmonised form. I.e. how many are provided 'as is' and how many are provided in conformance of the INSPIRE Directive.

This is hopefully something that will come up soon in the INSPIRE Geoportal as a result of the Monitoring 2019 exercise, since it is one of the key aspects for making a consistent assessment about the status of INSPIRE implementation.

At the moment I have no updated trace about ATOM-feed services provided according the current INSPIRE schemas, but it would be possible for me to update some of the examples provided through the INSPIRE Community Forum in the past in order to get them refreshed. However, usability of data shared through such type of services is questionable.

Alternatively, there is a lot of work done (Peter Baumann, Kathi Schleidt and myself) in order to establish an interoperable, OGC compliant, way of providing WCS a service in conformance of the INSPIRE Directive - See the links below:

Dedicated page: 

https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/forum/pages/view/265454/an-effective-good-practice-to-boost-interoperable-provision-of-raster-inspire-coverage-data-and-services

Related discussion:

https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/forum/discussion/view/265095/inspire-coverages-demo-service

The progress of this proposal had been reported overtime through the MIG-T and dedicated workshops in the last INSPIRE Conference events. We hope that MIG-T is finally pushing a formal development of this proposal driven by the appropriate support form a majority of Member States representatives. This is the only way to solve the INSPIRE WCS issues identified during the last years.

Last fresh news I have is that these issues and the previous proposal for resolution have been discussed during the last MIG-T virtual meeting in mid-May - I am keen on knowing more details about the final outcome!

Look forward to getting your support and spread the word.

Jordi