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European Spatial Data Infrastructures: A Time of Change
19.02.2026

European Spatial Data Infrastructures: A Time of Change

Summary As part of the competitiveness and simplification political priority of the EC, the INSPIRE Directive will be “simplified”, with the biggest change being the removal of all requirements related to interoperability of data and network services from the legal text itself. Metadata and scope remain more or less unchanged. Read More
General Interest News Data Harmonisation Data Management Data Usefulness Environmental Data Geodata INSPIRE Interoperability Metadata Open Data Standards Strategy wetransform
Thorsten Reitz
Thorsten Reitz
European Spatial Data Infrastructures: A Time of Change

European Spatial Data Infrastructures: A Time of Change

General Interest News Data Harmonisation Data Management Data Usefulness Environmental Data Geodata INSPIRE Interoperability Metadata Open Data Standards Strategy wetransform
Summary As part of the competitiveness and simplification political priority of the EC, the INSPIRE Directive will be “simplified”, with the biggest change being the removal of all requirements related to interoperability of data and network services from the legal text itself. Metadata and scope remain more or less unchanged. Read More
Thorsten Reitz
Thorsten Reitz

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Categories: Geodata

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Flagship Project FutureForest: AI Support for Climate-Resilient Forestry

Flagship Project FutureForest: AI Support for Climate-Resilient Forestry

General Interest News Projects Artificial Intelligence conferences Data Management Data Spaces Environmental Data FutureForest Geodata Interoperability Projects Research Strategy
The effects of climate change create great challenges for our forests. Droughts, fires, storms, and pests are all on the rise, and existing forestry know-how is often no longer enough to set our woods up for a secure and climate-resilient future. This is where the FutureForest project comes in. Read More
John Boudewijn
John Boudewijn
Somakanthan Somalingam, Innovations Project Manager at wetransform
Somakanthan Somalingam
Thorsten Reitz
Thorsten Reitz
High Value Dataset Metadata

High Value Dataset Metadata

General Interest News Tutorials Data Accessibility Data Harmonisation Data Usefulness Geodata High-value Datasets INSPIRE Interoperability Metadata Open Data Standards
The High Value Dataset (HVD) Implementing Regulation entered into force on June 9, 2024, with the aim of making a range of public sector data freely available to the public. The concept of high value datasets first appeared in… Read More
wetransform's product manager Kate Lyndegaard
Kate Lyndegaard
Johanna Ott, Senior Consultant for Geospatial Solutions
Johanna Ott
New Release: hale»studio 5.3.0!

New Release: hale»studio 5.3.0!

News Release Notes Data Transformation Geodata hale»studio Product Update
We have updated our open source ETL Tool hale»studio to 5.3.0! The new hale»studio 5.3.0 release includes new features as well as bug fixes. Features Support loading Shapefiles for XML schemas Support loading single Shapefile from folder Bug Fixes Avoid arbitrary file access during archive extraction ("Zip… Read More
John Boudewijn
John Boudewijn
New Release: hale»studio 5.1.0!

New Release: hale»studio 5.1.0!

News Release Notes Data Transformation Geodata hale»studio Product Update
Another update has been released for our open source ETL Tool hale»studio! The hale»studio 5.1.0 release includes several new features as well as fixes for issues of the previous release. These include: Enhancements Better Excel Support: You can now work with multiple sheets in Excel files all at… Read More
Emanuela Epure, Senior Software Engineer at wetransform
Emanuela Epure