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EURADIN PROJECT – ADDRESS DATA AS INSPIRE SUBJECT

P. Vanis

Abstract

Addresses constitute a very important part in the infrastructure of the society. They are exploited not only in everyday life but also in an infinite number of activities. In civil service are addresses linked to civil engineering, cadastre, administration, risk and health management etc. In business an address serves as a primary navigation tool for marketing, insurance, banking, telecommunications, tourism, logistic and others. Citizens encounter the addresses for understanding of the spatial context, through cartographic products, postal services and as a common reference. Therefore an address enters to number of IT applications. It is logical that with the progress of European integration the EU should have an adequate European Address Infrastructure allowing the access in a seamless and interoperable way to the existing European Addresses from different countries. At this moment, nothing that could be considered as a European Address Infrastructure exists. The lack of harmonization regarding addresses definition, registration and access, prevents a European Addresses Infrastructure from being built, which means that addresses cannot be adequately and extensively used, shared and exploited. INSPIRE Directive defines general rules for the establishment of an infrastructure for spatial information in Europe, based on Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) created by the Member States that are made compatible and interoperable. Addresses are part of Annex I of INSPIRE. The project EURADIN (European Addresses Infrastructure) was started for all these reasons. EURADIN aims at constituting a Best Practice Network to promote the European Addresses harmonization. The results shall be used as a reference for all European Member States to fulfil the INSPIRE recommendations with respect to addresses.

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