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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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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
INSPIRE Schema Updates

INSPIRE Schema Updates

General Interest News Tutorials Best Practices Codelists Data Transformation hale»connect hale»studio INSPIRE Open Data Standards Webinar
In 2015, all INSPIRE application schemas were updated to align with changes in the INSPIRE Implementing Rules and the Technical Guidelines, resulting in many major version updates (v3.x to v4.0). Fast forward to February 2024, and the… Read More
Anna Tamm
Anna Tamm
Johanna Ott, Senior Consultant for Geospatial Solutions
Johanna Ott
John Boudewijn
John Boudewijn
wetransform's product manager Kate Lyndegaard
Kate Lyndegaard
3½ Years of GO-PEG: Our Experience in Generating Cross-border, High Value Data Sets

3½ Years of GO-PEG: Our Experience in Generating Cross-border, High Value Data Sets

General Interest News Projects Alternative Encodings Data Harmonisation Data Management Data Science Data Transformation Data Usefulness GeoPackage hale»connect hale»studio INSPIRE Interoperability OGC Open Data Standards Projects Strategy
In late 2019, a consortium of six partners from five countries set out to create harmonised open datasets and their corresponding metadata in areas such as environment, emergency and disaster management that would span at least five EU countries. In the GO-PEG project (Generation of cross border Pan European… Read More
Thorsten Reitz
Thorsten Reitz
John Boudewijn
John Boudewijn
Data Standards Beyond INSPIRE

Data Standards Beyond INSPIRE

General Interest Opinion Best Practices Data Harmonisation Data Usefulness Environmental Data GML hale»connect hale»studio INSPIRE Interoperability Open Data Standards XPlanung
As a decision maker, you know that it can be hard to get things done. With the digital transformation in full swing, there are always new programs and regulations that require your full attention. Prioritising these challenges is hard, which means that finding ways to do things more effectively… Read More
Thorsten Reitz
Thorsten Reitz
John Boudewijn
John Boudewijn