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Spatial data infrastructure is an essential tool for the management, planning, and analysis of sustainable development. The Latvian ecosystem, which consists of numerous decentralized resources, has successfully established a foundation by fulfilling the requirements of the European Union's INSPIRE and Open Data directives. The transition from a culture of viewing 'paper maps' to the automated machine processing of standardized, vectorized, and semantically rich data represents the primary benefit. To evaluate and...

Since INSPIRE directive was published in 2007, many datasets became publicly available in interoperable way. This makes possible the developing of wide range of applications (including web and mobile) that use this information as data source. In this article authors test all for download available datasets registered in Latvian spatial metadata catalogue and describes the technical details such as the feature type, feature count in dataset, geometry type, default coordinate reference system, standard name and deri...

INSPIRE directive describes how infrastructure for spatial information in European community should be developed. The directive provides standard (implementing rules) for European Union member statesпїЅ spatial data to ensure that spatial data is compatible in trans-boundary context. The directive covers 34 themes in 3 annexes, including such themes as: Agricultural and aquaculture facilities, Energy Resources, Environmental monitoring Facilities, Mineral Resources, Production and industrial facilities, Sea region...