The vision of the INSPIRE Directive is that defined spatial data, metadata and services of various providers are consistent with the standardized specifications and accessible by a common location, ...i.e. a geoportal. The focus of this paper is on the establishment of a unified national metadata system that is INSPIRE compliant and combines metadata spatial data and the services of various providers. In Slovenia, formal responsible organizations must arrange and complete metadata and services using the SIST EN ISO 19115 metadata standard profile and other regulations and implementing rules determined by the INSPIRE Directive. The metadata systems of the Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia, the Slovenian official INSPIRE geoportal and the ARSO geoportal of the Slovenian Environment Agency are described. A comparison of them is then elaborated regarding the current state and compliance with the INSPIRE Directive. The spatial data and metadata system of the Swiss Federal Office of Topography swisstopo is also presented as an example of a remarkably comprehensive and significant solution.
In recent years, major advances in monitoring processes through sectoral control systems have been observed, but so too has the lack of interoperability of spatial information systems. In the frame ...of the EuroGEOSS project, interoperability between Drought ManagementCentre for Southeastern Europe (DMCSEE) and European Drought Observatory (EDO) has been developed. For interoperability processes, open source tools and Open Geodata Interoperability specifications(OpenGIS) were used ; V zadnjih letih je opazen napredek na področjuspremljanja procesov v prostoru s sektorskimi sistemi nadzora, pri čemer je zaznati pomanjkanje medopravilnosti prostorskih informacijskih sistemov. V okviru projekta EuroGEOSS je bila vzpostavljena medopravilnost med Centrom za upravljanje s sušo vjugovzhodni Evropi (DMCSEE) in Evropskim sušnim portalom (European Drought Observatory – EDO). Pri tem so bila uporabljena odprtokodna orodja in tehnologije OpenGIS.
S prostorskimi podatki se danes posredno ali neposredno ukvarjajo država, lokalne skupnosti, podjetja, številne vladne in nevladne organizacije, društva in druge neformalne skupine. Javnost želi in ...mora biti obveščena, kaj se dogaja v prostoru, v katerem živi, kateri projekti in aktivnosti se dogajajo, in ob tem s svojim mnenjem in aktivnostmi vplivati na čim bolj kakovostno bivanje v prostoru. Informacije, povezane s prostorom in prostorskimi projekti, so razpršene. Tudi učinkovita izmenjava informacij med občinami in državnimi upravnimi organi se še ne izvaja. Prostorsko načrtovanje je multidisciplinarna dejavnost z veliko sodelujočimi področji in ravnmi. Za uspešno delovanje v prostorskem načrtovanju je treba zagotavljati učinkovito sodelovanje med vsemi nosilci urejanja prostora – med državo in lokalnimi skupnostmi, med posameznimi organi državne uprave ter med lokalnimi skupnostmi samimi. V procesu prostorskega načrtovanja je zato izredno pomembna izmenjava informacij, kar pa je mogoče le z dobrim sistemom za njihovo zbiranje in posredovanje.